Agr International is taking its latest products for quality management and process control for the packaging industry to Pack Expo.
Why should you pay attention? Because standing still is not an option for producers, converters and fillers in a competitive market that is constantly innovating.
Agr’s Process Pilot automated blowmoulder management system is your aid to keeping up with the trend for ever lighter PET bottles. It interfaces with the blowmoulder to provide precise material thickness distribution management and defect detection for PET bottles - while offering hands-off blowmoulder control.
This system allows you to lightweight bottles to the absolute minimum knowing that material is distributed appropriately. The Process Pilot system makes it possible to produce consistent high-quality bottles on a 24/7 basis regardless of operator skills, environmental changes and preform variations.
Benefits? There are several:
- Improved quality overall with reduced variation in top load and volume
- Production efficiencies that result from eliminating the need for section weights
- Reduced scrap and lower incidences of downtime in the blowing operation or filling line due to quality issues.
Incorporating the M-RULE model in the Agr PPT3000 and Pilot Profiler systems makes it possible to monitor and manage bottle shelf life at the time of production. The M-RULE shelf-life prediction model is a web-based shelf life predictive tool that operates by integrating the fundamentals of permeation with critically evaluated physical data.
Agr products with M-RULE work on the premise that if every bottle were identical, the shelf life would be equally identical. However, if one parameter changes then the shelf life performance would also change. In reality, changing conditions in the blowing process will cause variations in bottle attributes. Agr measurement systems with M-RULE give you the means to monitor how these changing conditions affect shelf life performance and provide the opportunity to take the corrective action necessary to ensure that all production meets defined shelf life goals.
