Cap, Lid & Flap Detection
(24 companies)Quality and safety inspection equipment that uses machine vision and other technologies to detect the presence of a cap or lid on a finished package. Also included here are flap detection systems that check that carton and case flaps are properly closed during sealing. Looking for tips and best practices on inspection and testing equipment? Explore related articles now.
Accutek Packaging Equipment Co.
The Accutek Inspection-Rejection Station system is designed to perform comprehensive inspections on various aspects of product packaging. It utilizes advanced technology to detect and reject containers that do not meet specific criteria. The system checks the orientation of containers to ensure they are positioned correctly, identifying and rejecting containers that are upside down or not aligned properly. The system also verifies the fill levels in containers, ensuring they meet the required standards, detecting overfilled or underfilled containers and reject them accordingly. Other applications include metal or contaminants in the product, whereby Accutek's system employs sensors or imaging technology to identify the presence of metallic objects, contaminants or foreign substances in the product. The system also examines the placement and alignment of caps on containers for skewed caps, missing caps, missing foil liners, crooked or missing labels.
Auto-Mate Technologies LLC
AutoMate supplies the industry with two bottle and packaging inspection systems: the AM-QC and the AM-DA Diagnostic Center. Model AM-QC provides product quality assurance, accuracy and integrity in one centralized machine, performing inspection tasks such as torque monitoring; detection for missing caps, missing or skewed labels, missing neck bands and foil seals; bar code verification; color correctness; conveyor speed monitoring, crooked/ loose cap detection; date/lot verification; verification of cotton placement and more. The AM-DA provides inspection and quality assurance through non-contact, non-destructive testing, with reject systems that gently remove products.
Banner Engineering Corp.
Sensors and smart cameras from Banner Engineering are able to quickly inspect packages for defects. Sensor equipment includes photoelectric, registration mark, color and luminescence sensors, radar sensors, ultrasonic, as well as temperature and vibration sensors. Smart cameras include the VE high-resolution vision camera and barcode reader. All of Banner’s sensors and smart cameras set themselves apart by being easy to set up, teach, and deploy. Banner Engineering also provides lighting, vision lenses, and software for inspection applications. Contact an application engineer today for assistance with an inspection application.
Capmatic
The Countlab tablet vision inspection system is an advanced solution designed to detect discrepancies in tablets, ensuring quality control. It identifies color, size, and broken tablets with precision, optimizing the production process.
Cognex Corporation
Cognex machine vision systems help companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high quality products at an affordable price. Typical applications for machine vision include detecting defects, monitoring production lines, guiding assembly robots, and tracking, sorting and identifying parts. Product line includes Cognex In-Sight® 2D machine vision systems, 3D machine vision tools. vision software, Cognex Deep Learning technology and barcode readers.
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Dabrico, Inc.
The DI-100 LT/XL Inspection System is designed to perform visual inspections of vials, ampoules, syringes, and cartridges, minimizing product handling. It handles a wide range of container types and sizes, with a maximum operating speed of 150 pieces per minute. Using one DI-100 LT/XL machine, one operator can achieve the same productivity as 4-5 operators in a typical manual inspection process. For ampoules, it can inspect fill level, ampoule tip, cracks, and scratches on the ampoule body. On cartridges, it inspects cake surface (for freeze-dried products), fill level, aluminum cap crimping and dents, stopper presence, and more. It also checks for fill level, cake surface, stopper presence, cracks, and scratches on vials, as well as other anomalies.
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Flexible Vision
Flexible Vision offers advanced machine vision solutions tailored for food packaging inspection. Their technology helps detect common issues such as label damage, placement errors, defects, liquid coloration variance, and even contamination. By using AI-powered systems, they ensure precise inspection of seal integrity, liquid levels, and overall packaging quality. These solutions improve efficiency and accuracy in quality control processes, reducing waste and ensuring compliance with safety standards. Flexible Vision’s systems can be seamlessly integrated into production lines, allowing real-time monitoring and automated inspection without the need for extensive programming or manual oversight.
Genesis Packaging Technologies
Genesis vial inspection platform is designed to be added either prior to or after existing capping operations to achieve additional inspection criteria. The VIP has a main star wheel and a discharge star wheel so that non conforming product can be rejected without human intervention. When placed in front of the existing vial capping equipment, it can be used to test for single or multiple attributes such as raised stopper detection, head space analysis or the presence of moisture using near IR technology. When integrated after the vial capping process, the Genesis VIP can be used to apply and verify lot numbers or other identifying features or could again be used as a platform for testing analysis. The VIP is designed to easily integrate with all forms of Westcappers® as well as most other commonly used capping machines.
INDUSTRIAL PHYSICS
Industrial Physics provides test and inspection solutions from the biggest global brands in packaging inspection, including vision systems and can integrity testers. Featured brands and solutions include the Metal Ends Inspection system from Eagle Vision Systems, which inspects damages, roundness and compound on metal can ends. Other suppliers presented by Industrial Physics include Quality By Vision, who make can-end inspection and aerosol vision inspection systems. Also highlighted on the Industrial Physics website is offline can seam inspection and measurement systems from CMC-Kuhnke.
Kaps-All Packaging Systems Inc
Kaps-All distributes the AM-DA Quality Control Center from AutoMate Technologies. This diagnostic inspection center allows for non-contact/non-destructive testing and rejection of containers for multiple specifications in one center. Standard features include bottle counter and rate meter module, conveyor speed monitor with encoder and alarm module, and missing cap detector module.
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Körber Pharma, North America
Körber Pharma supplies automatic inspection engineered for the medical and pharmaceutical applications. Whether the product is liquid, highly viscous or freeze-dried, Körber Pharma has packaging inspection equipment for syringes, vials, ampoules, cartridges, and more. Designed for the high demands that pharmaceutical and biotech products and their special containers place on transport systems, Körber equipment can inspect all areas of the package or container, including tips and caps, particles or beads on the container, crimp, stopper, neck, sidewall, and bottom. In addition, Körber inspection systems perform leak detection and needle/shield detection. Systems feature Körber's Eject-X, a deep-learning feature that trains all cameras and inspection stations.
Krones Inc.
Krones' product line of packaging inspection equipment includes vision inspection systems, fill level inspection equipment for canning and bottling lines. Krones' Checkmat inspection systems verifies if the right bottles are in the pack and there are no foreign objects in the package, among other tasks; Checkmat label inspectors also available. The Linatronic AI offers empty-container inspection technology for glass and PET containers with deep learning capabilities. ModulCheck is designed for operations with limited space or when only a single inspection is required.
METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection
Mettler Toledo’s broad range of product inspection systems includes checkweighers, metal detectors, x-ray inspection systems, track and trace systems, vision inspection, and more. Systems are made for all types of bulk and packaged products for environments ranging from dry to harsh wash-down and can detect solid contaminants, verify product weights, mark and verify packages, ensure accuracy and integrity of packaging and labels, confirm component content, inspect closures, and measure fill levels.
New England Machinery
New England Machinery’s inspection rejection system (NEMIRS) inspects for skewed caps, missing caps or foil liners. It can detect down bottles, misoriented bottles, crooked or missing labels and more. Depending on the inspection requirement, the NEMIRS uses photo eyes, proximity switches, limit switches, UPC and 2D scanners or vision systems. Containers can be rejected using an air blow-off, diverter arm, or push cylinder. Rejects can be rejected to a table, collected in a bin, or transferred to an existing system.
Omron Automation Americas
Omron Industrial Automation's comprehensive machine vision hardware line includes industrial cameras, vision systems and smart and PC-based cameras that are scalable across software platforms. Portfolio offers compact form factors for tight spaces, high-speed imaging for fast-moving production lines, and high resolutions for detailed inspection. Featured systems include the MicroHAWK F430, representing the next generation of Omron’s popular MV-40 model. Featuring the smallest IP65/67-rated, true industrial Ethernet smart camera now with expanded functionality, Omron Microscan's machine vision tool is designed for solving multiple vision inspection challenges.
Optel Vision
Optel supplies machine vision systems for the pharmaceutical industry, designed to ensure quality and safety. Offering more than 60 features for inspection categories, Optel's equipment covers product inspection (unit dimensions, shape, color, etc.), packaging inspection (integrity, seal, inserts, cap and tamper-evident seals), as well as labeling and printing (label presence, orientation, print positioning and quality, etc.) Featured systems include OPTEL’s InspectProof, a flexible automated vision system that provides extensive inspection of labels, cartons, trays, devices and cases at rates of up to 2,000 ppm.
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Oxipital AI
Oxipital AI’s end-to-end visual AI solutions for inspection seamlessly integrate into manufacturers’ existing workflows without process disruption or upstream product presentation requirements. Oxipital AI vision works together with a pre-trained object model to quickly capture product images and accurately identify key product attributes. The images are analyzed in real-time to recognize patterns, anomalies, and deviations, flagging those that don’t meet desired quality standards. User-friendly dashboards present the inspection data and product images allowing process engineers to uncover troubled areas in the production line and make data-driven process changes. These actionable insights enhance yield, reduce waste, and improve product quality.
Peco InspX
Peco InspX manufactures innovative and reliable inspection systems leveraging the latest in technology and software algorithms. Products are solution driven for all industries, package types and contaminants. Across a range of product and package considerations, X-ray inspection is the most effective, efficient and reliable means of ensuring that product and packages have not been compromised. Peco InspX’s 60 years in package inspection has built on strength after strength. Peco InspX’s ScanTrac X-ray Inspection Equipment confirms contents, detects foreign material, calculates volumetric fill levels and identifies container defects -- for packaged and unpackaged products.
Pepperl+Fuchs, Inc.
Pepperl+Fuchs offers vision sensors and vision systems for every requirement in industrial vision. The comprehensive portfolio ranges from universally applicable sensors to application- or customer-specific products to turnkey solutions, always with the goal of ensuring reliable image processing.
PTI - Packaging Technologies & Inspection, LLC
PTI offers testing equipment to ensure container closure integrity for the pharmaceutical, medical, food and beverage, and other markets. Wide range of testing equipment tests packaging formats including vials, ampoules, syringes, autoinjectors, blister packaging, induction sealed bottles and flexible packaging (pouches, sachets and suture packaging). Featured testing equipment includes Seal-Scan® and Seal-Sensor utilizing non-contact airborne ultrasonic testing technology, VeriCon inspection systems for bottle and container leak testing and VeriPac Vacuum Decay Series of inspection systems.
Remtec Automation, LLC
Remtec’s continuous and intermittent motion product vision inspection systems run at rates up to 200 per minute. Applications include bottle inspection. Robotic vision inspection technology offers businesses of all sizes a dependable solution for quality control issues. Innovative robotic vision inspection technology also offers the advantage of increasing productivity through optimized process up time, elimination of quality slips, and reduced rework. Robotic vision inspection systems are adaptable as product designs change over time.
SICK, Inc.
SICK’s machine vision systems are engineered for automated inspection and measurement tasks. Using photoelectric sensors, SICK vision systems handle tasks such as error proofing and optical character recognition (OCR) for labels. SICK offers 2D vision, 3D vision options.
Silgan Equipment Company
Silgan is an original equipment manufacturer of closure and label vision inspection systems designed to monitor production quality to optimize performance and productivity on bottling and capping lines. Machines feature sensor-based and multi-camera 360° inspection technology and handle speeds up to 800 containers/minute. Silgan also makes the 2D Profiling Dud Detector for inspecting lug, PT or composite cap-sealed for cap application and proper vacuum levels.
TURCK, Inc.
Turck manufactures sensors and related equipment used in fill level detection, cap detection and related applications. Featured products include the rectangular uprox+ sensors, designed to reliably detect bottle caps. Between high-speed overrun, different types of metals, high demands on tightness, and mechanical robustness, the reliable detection of bottle caps can be a very challenging task for inductive sensors. Turck's Uprox+ sensors with the one-piece rectangular housing (design QT42) in protection class IP69K have been developed specifically for these demanding applications.
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