Beverage inspection
Smart solutions to ensure quality and safety of all your beverage products
Our wide knowledge and expertise with inspection systems have prepared us for solutions applicable for the new demands of the beverage industry. Consumers are now focused on their beverage choices more than ever which presents new challenges for beverage companies.
As a world leader for inspection systems in the most demanding industries, we can guarantee the total quality of each beverage product, ensuring product integrity as well as complete consumer safety and satisfaction.
Our systems effectively control packaged articles with respect to the product, label and printing. Supported by a wide range of camera models, our controls span from the traditional barcode and OCR/OCV verification of variable data such as expiry date and lot number, to the complete inspection of all the packaging, such as cap closure, filling level, orientation of the bottle for labelling and label printing correctness.
INSPECTION IS ENSURED
THROUGHOUT YOUR
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Our inspection solutions cover the full production cycle: from the empty container to the final product.
OUR BEVERAGE INSPECTION CONTROLS
PROVEN EXPERIENCE TO
ENSURE MAXIMUM
RELIABILITY AND ACCURACY
The Glass Inspection System is a reliable and accurate software suite, developed in the context of the severe standards of the pharmaceutical production, designed for the visual inspection of open jars and bottles to verify the shape and cleanliness of the inner and outer surface to ensure the highest quality standards. Sophisticated analysis algorithms enable the identification of all possible defects by performing dimensional and cosmetic inspections for a total conformity control of the containers. The inspection is not affected by glass colour, temperature or product layout, minimizing false rejects.
FEATURES
- Performed controls: inner and external diameter of the container mouth, dimensions and spoking of the neck, dimensions of the body, spoking of the bottom, feed-back to the forming machine via TCP IP.
- High-speed inline: up to 12000/glass bottles or 72000/plastic containers hour with a high level of accuracy
- Identification of cracks down to 0.2mm length on the container surface
- Advanced statistical analyses with detailed reject typology to help detecting the upstream production process criticalities
- Charts Viewer application to monitor the temporal progression of the measurements detected by the system during production process based on tolerance thresholds.
- Easy and user-friendly graphical user interface with a single touch-screen display to control all machine functions.
PERFECT TOP
ON THE TOP
Cap Level Control is a software designed for the automatic visual inspection in order to detect the fill level and the correct positioning of the cap. It is an accurate and reliable software developed in the context of the severe standards of the pharmaceutical production. It is a smart and efficient easy-to-install standalone automatic inspection module that can fit on any containers line conveyor, allowing space saving on the line.
Sophisticated analysis algorithms allow a reliable filling level verification, even if the liquid has foamed during the process. The control is performed by high resolution cameras with visible image and infrared detection, the accuracy is not affected by colour, temperature variations or product layout.
FEATURES
- Performed controls: filling level, cap presence, cap tilting and correct positioning, presence of label.
- High working speed of 70,000 containers/hour to detect at the same time: Filling level, Correct positioning of bottle cap and Presence of label.
- Easy to use: being based on self-learning procedure; operation is managed through pre-set recipes, allowing quick and efficient format change.
Antares Vision Packaging Control regards both the container and the quality of the printing.
CONTAINER DETECTION
Antares Vision performs the highest controls to ensure the correctness of all your containers, thus to guarantee the maximum quality and safety to your customers.
PROVEN EXPERIENCE TO
ENUSRE MAXIMUM
RELIABILITY AND ACCURACY
The Glass Inspection System is a reliable and accurate software suite, developed in the context of the severe standards of the pharmaceutical production, designed for the visual inspection of open containers to verify the shape and cleanliness of the inner and outer surface to ensure the highest quality standards.
Sophisticated analysis algorithms enable the identification of all possible defects by performing dimensional and cosmetic inspections for a total conformity control of the containers. The inspection is not affected by glass colour, temperature or product layout, minimizing false rejects.
FEATURES
- Performed controls: inner and external diameter of the container mouth, dimensions and spoking of the neck, dimensions of the body, spoking of the bottom, feed-back to the forming machine via TCP IP.
- High-speed inline: up to 12000/glass bottles or 72000/plastic containers hour with a high level of accuracy.
- Identification of cracks down to 0.2mm length on the container surface.
- Advanced statistical analyses with detailed reject typology to help detecting the upstream production process criticalities.
- Charts Viewer application to monitor the temporal progression of the measurements detected by the system during production process based on tolerance thresholds.
- Easy and user-friendly graphical user interface with a single touch-screen display to control all machine functions.
QUALITY AT FIRST SIGHT
COMES WITH LABELLING
The bottle orientation system is a Visual inspection system for the precision orientation of bottles during the labelling and packaging process on automatic high-speed lines. Based on a single high resolution camera, it detects the singularities on the surface of a container of any material, regardless of the material and content, transmitting to the control system the angular position of any distinctive element with respect to a known reference point. It allows the reading of embossed features, logotypes, welding seams and "dots" on the bottom, to generate an angular reference for any type of container without the need to insert extra components in the inner part of the carousel. AV Bottle Orientation System is designed to work in combination with the control systems of labeling machines, cappers and in general with all applications that require the orientation of bottles.
FEATURES
- Line speed up to 30 thousand bottles per hour, the performance is fully insensitive to both the material of the container and the type of liquid contained
- Orientation accuracy: below 1°
- Easy to use with automatic format change system with no need of operator setup.
WIDE INSPECTION POSSIBILITIES FROM THE SMALLEST TO THE BIGGEST VOLUME.
The AV Bottle Visual Rotating Inspection systems are inline and standalone machines designed to inspect a wide range of glass or plastic containers for liquids to ensure the quality and safety of your beverages.
FEATURES:
- High throughput: it inspects up to 24.000 containers/ hour
- Accurate: it detects reflective and opaque particles inside the products up to 20 μm of dimension
- Wide range of feature controls: presence of particles inside the product, inspection of foreign bodies, filling level checks, container cosmetic and functional faults detection, application and verification of the label.
- Reliable: the machine is equipped with high resolution cameras with a high-speed vision capturing and processing system and a double independent particle inspection to provide redundancy
- Smart: the machine is equipped with an automatic rejection system with various outlet channels depending on the nature of the defect
- Efficient: it provides advanced statistical analysis with detailed reject typology to help detect the reject causes in the upstream production process.
PRINTING CONTROL
Antares Vision supports the control of the printed samples in the packaging industry, from the original design to the mass printing of materials.
INLINE CHECK
OF INTEGRITY,
PRINT AND POSITION
To support precision operations on labelling machines, Antares Vision solutions provide dedicated solutions as visual inspection kits that can be installed on any new or existing equipment. The AV Label Checker is Antares Vision system for labels inspection, flat or applied on front/back or all-around bottles, with inline check of integrity, print and position. It is designed to operate in single camera or multi-camera mode: according to the bottles transport system, it allows to compose the image from one or more viewpoints without the need to insert extra components in the inner part of the carousel.
FEATURES
The AV Label Checker provides maximum accuracy thanks to high resolution cameras in a fixed position which generate a single image on which the system can analyze and detect any cosmetic fault of the label or of the application. The AV Label Checker is also easy to use as it does not require any setup by the operator, being based on self-learning algorithms; operation is managed through pre-set recipes, to guarantee reproducible and reliable inspection performance.
- Accuracy rate is less than 0.5 mm2
- The system can detect the presence and readability of specific critical areas of the label such as barcode, datamatrix, QR code
- The system can perform OCR controls, identifying defects smaller than 0.5 mm2 at a speed of 30 thousand labels per hour for single camera
100%
SAMPLE VERIFICATION
Based on a sophisticated software able to import and process the original PDF files, the AV Printing Sample Check compares them with the physical printed samples, automatically detecting and outlining the differences. Printing sample check works off-line acquiring images of the printed samples with a high-quality certified scanner station. this ensures the most reliable performances with a fast scanning tool that can give impartial and reproducible results from sample-to-file comparison. Advanced but very simple to use algorithms automatically align the master and the analyzed images, compensating the physiological deformation of the support and thus avoiding false mistakes.
Every mismatch, such as character types, colors, stretches, scratches, streaks or dots, is clearly outlined on the pc screen, thus easing the detection of the printing problem. the report of comparison is immediately available in a file ready to be printed, stored or transferred to the quality system, saving hours of man-labor and improving control reliability and accuracy.
FEATURES
The system, manageable by up to 5 user login levels, can be used on Folding cartons, Patient information leaflets, Labels and Foil with any printing type: Offset, Flexographic, Rotogravure, Digital, Screen printing. It has a 360° high accurate inspection range: from shape and color to barcode.
- The system is smart and efficient because it has a simple and fast procedure that guides the operator along the main phases from the acquisition of the image to the reporting;
- It gives fast, impartial and reproducible result through advanced reporting that helps locating the error causes in the printing process;
- It ensures a simultaneous acquisition and verification on a batch queue and can concentrate control on the most critical areas.
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