HEUFT

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HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH
Headquarters Burgbrohl, Germany
Number of employees
over 1,000
Website heuft.com

Company Profile

HEUFT is a globally operating company, setting the standards regarding innovative checking and inspecting technology for the beverage, food and pharmaceutical industries.

Located in Burgbrohl, Germany the company offers camera, X-ray and image processing technologies for empty and full container inspection, labeling technology and smart tools for container flow optimization, production data acquisition and performance analysis safeguard product quality and line efficiency sustainably.

Heuft manufactures the correct automation solution for every application by a consistent modular design principle with a cross-system control unit for the most varied technologies, procedures and modules.

Heuft guarantees a long-term availability of spare parts and a 24/7 on call service. The company manufactures their high efficient systems in a production area of over 20,000 square meters and employs more than 1000 people. Visitors can gain insight to the wide range of different products at the company‘s own 700 square meter Customer Center.

Products / Technology

  • camera, X-ray and image processing technologies for empty and full container inspection
  • labeling
  • production data acquisition
  • performance analysis for product quality and line efficiency

History

  • 1978 - HEUFT DELTA-FW - the first multi-segment rejection system
  • 1982 - world's first device for an in-line quality inspection with monitor
  • 1988 - HEUFT SPECTRUM - first universal platform for modular inspection systems
  • 1991 - market launch of the first empty bottle inspector for an efficient linear operation
  • 1997 - HEUFT SPECTRUM TX - first network-compatible platform for modular inspection systems
  • 2002 - introduction of HEUFT reflexx image processing system
  • 2003 - HEUFT eXaminer - pulsed X-ray technology for precise foreign object detection
  • 2010 - HEUFT reflexx2 - real-time image processing system with specific object classification
  • 2011 - HEUFT prime - first self-explanatory device with audiovisual HEUFT NaVi user guidance
  • 2013 - HEUFT SPECTRUM II - new generation universal device platform
  • 2013 - the 24/7 on call duty of the service sets new standards regarding technical customer support
  • 2014 - HEUFT InLine II IXS - world's first x-ray empty bottle inspector
  • 2015 - HEUFT eXaminer II XAC - X-ray inspection of filled containers based
  • 2015 - HEUFT squeezer II QS - leakage check

References

PETplanet Insider Articles

Issue 10 / 2023: In-line quality assurance
Issue 06 / 2023: New tasks in bottle inspection
Issue 04 / 2023: Track, trace & protect
Issue 09 / 2022: Turnkey solution for PET fillers
Issue 01 / 2022: Full precision during tethered cap inspection
Issue 12 / 2020: Heuft System Technology (Shanghai)
Issue 10 / 2019: Striving forwards for 40 years
Issue 03 / 2019: Latest developments in empty bottle inspection
Issue 01 / 2019: Audiovisual user guidance
Issue 01 / 2019: Dynamic labeling
Issue 03 / 2018: Filling management and full container inspection
Issue 07 / 2017: Filling and packaging technologies
Issue 11 / 2016: Product safety and efficiency on small and large filling lin
Issue 10 / 2016: No contact, no wear
Issue 03 / 2016: MHI instead of HMI
Issue 09 / 2013: Optimizing bottle flow
Issue 11 / 2011: Bottle testing
Issue 09 / 2009: New squeezer leakage checker
Issue 09 / 2009: Two new label papers from B&B
Issue 10 / 2008: New labeller and fault detector

External links

Heuft Website