Reduce Your Costs By Checkweighing!

Checkweighers are used to control the filling content of packaged goods, such as food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Both x-ray and metal detection systems may be used together with checkweighers as components of integrated packaging lines.

In this article Andy Cashen looks at how implementing checkweighers into production lines can have an incredible positive effect on a company's bottom line.

While checkweighers are often associated with compliance to regulations, they also boost your bottom line through the reduction of waste, tightening of tolerances, and helping to produce more consistent products. Checkweighers provide an immediate positive contribution to productivity and profits with most systems paying for themselves in a matter of a few months, weeks, or even days!

Use material savings to produce more product and profits. An accurate checkweigher will drive tighter production tolerances yielding less waste enabling more final product to be produced with the same amount of inventory.

Processes that incorporate an accurate and well maintained checkweigher also find fewer products in their reject bins. Tighter tolerances lead to improved overall process quality thereby reducing the amount of production scrap and reworked product produced. False rejects are also minimized as checkweigher accuracies become more precise as zone settings become more refined and the potential zone of uncertainty is reduced.

Use of static scales to spot check product is common to many operations; use of in-line checkweighing eliminates potential sampling errors and long term labour costs associated with these types of operations.
Checkweighers provide customized over and under analysis for food, industrial and pharmaceutical production lines and assure compliance with label weight regulations, eliminate customer complaints from low-weight packaging or missing items and reduce waste from over-weight packages. Checkweighers are critical to boosting the bottom line by reducing waste, increasing accuracy and tracking line efficiencies.

The need for checkweighers in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, beverage and transport/logistics industries as well as in chemical, automotive and metal industries is recognised by most manufacturers and processors as a key element to reducing wastage and as an effective quality assurance regime.
Checkweighers are instrumental in an increasingly competitive marketplace in fulfilling ever-changing customer needs and ensure compliance with governmental regulations and industry standards through in-line checkweighing of all packages. 100% weight inspection is an integral part of a coordinated quality and process control program helping to deliver the process rigour needed in today’s demanding market.

Keep a watchful eye over filler performance to prevent unwanted over and under fills through proactive feedback keeping filler heads properly adjusted. Checkweighers can be integrated directly with the filler control or networked to existing factory floor automation systems for complete and seamless feedback control.

Process improvements and efficiencies checkweighers provide real-time monitoring of production processes including yield statistics and SPC trending all of which can be used for process improvements and operating efficiencies.

Using Checkweighers as a tool to tighten tolerances & make processes more repeatable is a key ingredient in making a consistently high quality product, which will not only delight your Customers but also reduce your costs! 

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