PETpla.net Insider 03 / 2016

INSPECTION 30 PET planet insider Vol. 17 No. 03/16 www.petpla.net From quality control to overall equipment effectiveness Interacting inspections The PVS024 offer inspection rates of up to 72,000 preforms/h. Sacmi presents a series of incremental developments intended to facilitate faster, more effective inspection systems. Its solutions can interact with each other and provide essential information on the efficiency of the entire production process. Sacmi’s Automation & Inspection Systems Division is launching tech- nology that is intended to enhance its product range and respond to the most advanced manufacturing needs. First up is an enhancement to Sacmi’s CHS (cap handling system) for quality control of plastic or alumin- ium caps, which performs inspections directly at the press outfeed or offline. The new CHS4000 model, coupled to the new high speed cap position- ing device, can inspect up to 4,000 caps/minute and uses up to seven high resolution cameras to provide a comprehensive range of checks. The CHS4000 can be equipped with optional modules for spark-test identification of micro-holes on the caps and monitoring of the visible, decorated section. The CVS360-3D module inspects the cap perimeter; the company says that this module can detect, directly on the line, every type of defect. It minimises the risk of false rejects by the use of an acqui- sition method that allows perfect 2D reconstruction of the 3D object. After over two years of extending and refining its PET preform injec- tion press range with the IPS 220 and the IPS 400 with 96 and 128 cavities, Sacmi has developed its PVS (pre- form vision system) range to enable it to deliver faster, higher-performance inspection of preforms exiting the press. The PVS002, PVS003 and up to the PVS024 offer inspection rates of up to 72,000 preforms/hr. The company’s patented, grid-type control module detects defects nor- mally visible only with polarised light. Another module reads the number of the cavity stamped on the preform itself; this enables real-time sorting by cavity number and thus correlates any defects with the specific cavity where they originated. Sacmi says that the use of up-to-date Artificial Intelligence technology means that number read- ing is fully reliable, accurate and inde- pendent of the font used to stamp the number itself. Upgrades to the BVS (bottle vision system) include the availability of more powerful capture devices. Up to seven high-resolution cameras can inspect all bottle parts, from open- ing to neck, body and bottom. The BVS has also been equipped with the module that reads the number of the production cavity, which allows manufacturers to trace any defects with faster and more accurately than ever. The infrared illuminator enables integration of the BVS system on any container type, whether IBM (injec- tion blow moulding) or EBM (extrusion blow moulding) technology. The LVS (label vision system) family extends from the electronic positioning system integrated in Sacmi Opera labellers to the LVS360, which can check labelling quality on containers and bottles of any shape. Its CVS360-3D is the first equivalent machine in the world to use 5 mega- pixel ultra-high resolution colour cam- eras. It can inspect up to 72,000 bph. Sacmi says that the CVS3000 software used in all of the inspection systems developed by its Automa- tion & Inspection Systems Division provides high levels of interoperability and user-friendliness. Its latest fea- tures include the CVSWEB module, which makes machine operation and line efficiency (OEE, overall equip- ment efficiency) parameters and data available on the Web, which allows them to be seen via any authorised account. www.sacmi.it I NSPECT I ON S P E C I A L