Statistical Process and Quality Control (SQC)
Under-filling is illegal! Overfilling does not pay.

The quality of industrial filling processes varies from 'stable and easy to control' to 'high scatter and difficult to control'. Ansutek have a suitable SPC or SQC system to ensure systematic monitoring and control of your filling processes, regardless of the difficulty, helping you to maintain process compliance and to control waste through overfilling.

Sampling of the fill quantities of liquid, pasty, powdery or solid products immediately following filling allows precise adjustment through operator prompting or closed loop control to the filler from a dynamic checkweigher. Unnecessary material losses are avoided, legal fill quantities and net weight regulations are met.

Products remain in conformance with internal and external standards like ISO and GMP - our stand- alone or integrated systems give you the statistical data you need to understand, document and control your profitability. Freeweigh.Net allows you to connect virtually any device for instant data collection, analysis and action.

Case Study

Quality Check and Compliance for the Bottling Industry

Hawkes Bay Vineyard

Customer Requirements:

• Minimise overfilling and reduce cost associated with material usage – immediate corrective actions based on online data analysis (alarms, graphics)
• Compliance with legal requirements in net content control of packages – guaranteed availability of historical data for legal evidence and extensive Q-analysis
• Fulfill Weights and Measures and other regulations for audit trail and process control
• Simplify and streamline quality control processes
• Real time access to current quality related productio indicators, including variable and attribute control charts, histograms and other standard SPC analysis tools
• Network access to quality results, ability to view line and product results at remote plants and locations

Benefit calculation:

• Improve filling accuracy, reduce cost and maximise profit

Solution:

• Hardware/Software
  • SQC16 - an industrial precision balance with integrated application for statistical quality control
  • SQC14 – a strip printer with integrated software for monitoring, verifying and optimizing filling processes in compliance with economic and legal requirements. (This printer can be connected to a BBA scale or BBK scales as well depending on what accuracy is required)
• Process
  • Mark all 10 bottles 1 to 10 outside. Weigh in the sequence as marked including the caps.
  • Fill the bottles and weigh it again in same sequence and to get the actual weight and you will get the results.
  • While programming the product you must enter the sg of product so the results are final results with the programmed sg.

  * Most important is the bottle weight will keep varying and this can be confirmed by weighing 10-20 bottles. This will clarify why we are suggesting above procedure. By weighing 10 bottles for gross weight will not give good results.

Save money by reducing overfilling

Fulfill legal and regulatory requirements

Optimise process control

Streamline internal quality procedures

Statistical Quality Control Solutions

Checkweighers and SQC

Lab Balances and SQC

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