PETpla.net Insider 12 / 2014

PET products 24 PET planet insider Vol. 15 No. 12/14 www.petpla.net Management of CO 2 and water loss Agr International introduced a new capability for its Pro- cess Pilot automated blow moulder management system. In addition to the precision material distribution control for PET bottles, the Process Pilot system can now monitor shelf- life for CO 2 or water loss at the point of production. This is said to provide operators with a continuous status of the predicted shelf-life performance as well as the capability to proactively manage critical bottle parameters to maximise the shelf life of containers in production. The Process Pilot system with M-Rule shelf-life manage- ment combines two products: Agr’s Process Pilot thickness management/automated blow moulder control system and the M-Rule Container Performance Model. These components have been integrated to provide an on-line tool that can not only manage material distribution to a fine degree as needed for the production of ultralight bottles, but also monitor the shelf-life performance of those bottles, according to Agr. The Process Pilot system, installed within the blow moulder, measures thickness distribution on every bottle produced. Unique M-Rule bottle profiles are imbedded in the Pilot Profiler and the thickness data captured by the system is automatically entered into the M-Rule model. Shelf-life performance is continuously calculated and presented for individual bottles or user-defined subgroups. The Process Pilot system works in conjunction with the reheat stretch blow moulder to proactively manage and maintain con- tainer material distribution at a specified thickness to within ~0.01mm. www.agrintl.com ww .intravis.com We would even equip Santa. But his old vision inspection system still works. Unfortunately.