XPAR Vision InfraRed Dual camera systems (IR-D) and InfraRed Gob Weight Control systems (IGC) for Thai glassmakers
Thai Glass Industries (TGI) and Thai Malaya Glass (TMG), two container glass manufacturing subsidiaries in Thailand operated by Berli Jucker Company under the umbrella of BJC Glass, continue to invest in hot end sensor technologies from XPAR Vision. Four production lines have already been equipped with InfraRed Dual camera systems (IR-D) and InfraRed Gob Weight Control systems (IGC). Another two production lines (1 in TMG and 1 in TGI) are preparing for this equipment.
The IR-D camera system inspects all bottles in real time, to detect critical defects. Rejected bottles are removed immediately, still in the hot end phase. All information is transferred to process information on cavity levels, which allows the operator to act quickly on any form of process deviation. In general, implementing an IR-D at a production line ensures better bottle quality, less customer complaints, faster operator reaction time, efficiency improvement, fast learning (real time), improved process understanding and more consistency in actions amongst operators and specialists.
With the InfraRed Gob weight Control systems (IGC) the weight of the gobs is automatically kept constant over time. The IGC works in cooperation with the IR-D. The IR-D measures the amount of radiation/intensity of every single bottle and relates it to its weight. Bottles are actively measured on a weight scale every X minutes. From there, the actual weight is related to radiation/intensity. Now we can keep radiation/intensity...