Ensure Quality Bottles and Cans Reach Your Customers
FILTEC offers best-in-market solutions for both empty can and empty bottle inspection.
The FILTEC Empty Bottle Inspection Solution uses the highest quality imaging capabilities to inspect glass, PET, and reusable bottles for foreign objects or damage to inner and outer sidewall, base, finish and threads.
The FILTEC Empty Can Inspection Solution is a machine vision solution to identify foreign objects and damage to can sidewalls, base, rims, and sealing flange – before they create leaks or ruptures that can result in expensive line jams and downtime.
FILTEC’s Empty Container solutions for Bottles and Cans Include:
Glass Bottle Inspection
- Comprehensive Empty Bottle Inspection: Inspect every critical glass bottle surface—including the finish, thread, sidewalls, and base—in one integrated system.
- AI-Powered Defect Detection: Distinguish actual defects from normal bottle characteristics to minimize false rejects and keep more acceptable bottles in production.
- High-Resolution Imaging: Detect cracks, chips, foreign materials, transparent films, and other defects that conventional inspection systems may miss.
- Advanced Residual Liquid Detection: Integrated infrared (IR) and HF/RF technologies identify residual water, oils, and caustic liquids before bottles reach the filler.
- Optimized for Refillable Glass Bottles: Accommodate variations in bottle color, shape, wear, and decorations while maintaining inspection accuracy.
- High-Speed Performance and Easy Changeovers: Inspect up to 1,200 bottles per minute with automated, one-touch format changes that minimize downtime and maximize production efficiency.
Empty Can Inspection at Filler
- Utilizes Vision technology to detect defects in empty cans
- Detects defects in empty cans on lines running up to 2,400 cans per minute (CPM)
- Inspects the sidewalls, base and flange for bends, cracks, and foreign substances
- Reduces jams at the filler and seamer
- Integrates with FILTEC INTELLECT for continuous monitoring and statistical analysis of container integrity