Packaging Machinery - News, Technology and Reviews

The packaging and inspection validation systems and machines have come of age. Now there are machines that can check the packaging labels in different languages are extremely fast too. Consumers have become very attentive and responsive to the packaging labels, making the producers and the manufacturers of products having zero tolerance for defects in their packaging.

With this in mind, the inspection system has to be 100% fool proof and error free. The right language, with correct information and the correct alignment of the label has to be present on the product. Wrong information printed on the packages can cause delays and recalls of the product. Manufacturers would then have to pay for these costly recalls.

Checker machine from Cognex Corporation is great at these applications. It has been used in various industries such as the CD industries and pharmaceutical industries for checking the labels for 100% accuracy. Since the machine uses encoder counts and not times to note the faulty packages, it gives a true count at the encoder position for each package. The checker machine can also synchronize the part rejection on the variable speed.

With traditional sensors, the cost can be very prohibitive if there are a number of colors and prints been used. Since a traditional sensor would use many sensors to detect the flaws in the packaging. With the Checker machine different colors and products can be inspected easily and it also gives the operator and user more flexibility. What’s more, it can also count 100 labels per minute. This is very useful since it saves a lot of time for the companies and also provides zero defects on its packaging.