Sales success with Cap Quality Inspection Systems

IntraVis Vision Systems of Germany have recently announced that 2010 was a record sales year for them, as they nearly doubled their sales from the previous year. This success can be attributed in part to the successful sale & installation of 35 CapWatcher II machines worldwide in 2010 together with significant sales of their other inspection technologies.

The CapWatcher II is a cap inspection system that can inspect up to 144,000 caps per hour for defects such as:-

• Open & closed - short shots & long shots

• Spots

• Height deviations

• Broken tamper bands

• Deviations in the length of the gate

• Micro holes in the head plate

• Damage to the seal cone

• Colour deviations

• Damaged flaps

• Linear inconsistencies

The CapWatcher II inspects the caps on a vacuum belt, using a high quality industrial rated CCD camera using either colour or greyscale technology to identify the defects. It can be equipped with up to 5 cameras that can inspect the inside  &, outside, including the cavity & number of the caps.

IntraVis have recently added an additional option to the CapWatcher II – the inclusion of a print inspection unit that has an extra camera and an additional vacuum conveyor. The caps can be transferred to the second conveyor for presentation to the sixth camera that inspects the print quality at a speed of 1500 caps / minute.

IntraVis are a global supplier of video inspection systems for monitoring quality in the Plastics and Packaging Industries, and have over 2000 systems installed in over 35 countries. The Vision machines are designed to perform in-line inspection of plastic, glass & metal packaging and components and to find and eject defects ranging from the shape, colour, contamination, or dimensional variances.