PackCheck DL
Manufacturing

Product inspection for aerosol cans to improve efficiency and eliminate defects

The challenge

Shaving off production issues

Bytronic was asked by one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies to develop a vision inspection system to improve production efficiency and eliminate defects at its UK factory.

The plant produces a huge range of product types and variants, and the need for accurate labeling and quality control was vital.

The Solution

Protecting its reputation for quality and product safety

We developed four systems for quality control that are now in use across six production lines – each built to ensure quality, efficiency and productivity. 

Our systems carry out four important functions:

  • Checking the crimps or valves on aerosol cans to make sure they are correctly sealed before they are pressurised; 
  • Checking the ‘bung’ at the bottom of each can is correctly fitted; 
  • Checking the barcodes on each can to ensure the correct bill of materials; 
  • Carrying out visual inspections to confirm that multi-packs contain the correct number of products and are correctly packaged.

These checks are completed at different stages of the production line, all carried out within milliseconds, to make sure no products are shipped with incorrect or defective packaging.

Our systems mean that every product produced on the site’s six production lines is checked without delay or disruption, avoiding costly returns or recalls, reducing waste, and improving reliability compared to manual inspection.

Most importantly, they help protect our customer’s reputation for quality and product safety.

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The Results

Preventing delays, recalls and wastage in a split-second

Today, Bytronic is helping the site to further reduce waste in its supply chain. We’re proud of our work helping our customer to produce millions of high quality products every year and delivering on its carbon reduction targets.

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The Bytronic solution promise

Bytronic is a 100% customer-centric engineering technology solution provider. We work with multiple OEM and line-builder organisations.

Our advantage is that we approach solution design to solve customer challenges. Our goal is optimum productivity; future-proofed manufacturing.

Read more about our innovation and partnering approach.