Requirement
State what the complete solution must achieve for in-line inspection using dynamic weighing of filled bottles, including your production pattern and who will review the result.
Industrial machine vision
Bottle Checkweighers Specification Checklist
Use this practical checklist to describe your requirements for bottle checkweighers around representative good, bad and marginal samples under real line presentation, line connections and required results.
A useful specification for bottle checkweighers describes your operating range, line connections and required results while leaving room for the supplier to propose the best method.
Use this checklist for in-line inspection using dynamic weighing of filled bottles and separate confirmed facts, realistic ranges and items that need a trial.
On the production floor
Describe what the complete process needs to achieve — Bottle Checkweighers
Plan bottle checkweighers around representative good, bad and marginal samples, line presentation, lighting, reject handling and challenge criteria. Discuss an optical feasibility trial with Oxford Vision Systems. A clear brief should state the operating range for visible defect or measurement definition for dynamic weighing of filled bottles and your requirements for false-accept, false-reject and challenge criteria.
Discuss your application
Your checklist
Application, operation and results
Product, part or pack
Operation and interfaces
Results and support
Write measurable requirements
For Bottle Checkweighers, turn each checklist item into a range and a test
Range
Record normal and credible extremes for visible defect or measurement definition for dynamic weighing of filled bottles, good, bad and marginal sample range and part presentation and production speed; avoid relying on one nominal value.
Check
Define representative examples from in-line inspection using dynamic weighing of filled bottles, the method, repetitions, acceptable range and result record so you and the supplier share the same expectation.
For bottle checkweighers, use “shall” only for a requirement that can be demonstrated. Keep preferences, assumptions, provisional line connections and future options clearly separate.
Connected responsibilities
Be clear about what sits around your bottle checkweighers
Your final bottle checkweighers scope must also account for recipe, reject and line-control interfaces, false-accept, false-reject and challenge criteria, current regulations and the conditions at your site.
- Detectability depends on pack stability, line conditions and the difference between acceptable and faulty weights.
- A camera can only assess a property made visible and repeatable by the inspection setup.
- Sample diversity and marginal cases determine how meaningful a feasibility result is.