BORE DIAMETER AND INTERNAL PROFILE MEASUREMENT OF GLASS BOTTLES

ID SCAN™ is a semi-automatic bench for measuring, automatically and without any mechanical retooling, bore diameter and internal profile of glass bottles, on sample basis.

Available in two versions:

• IDSCAN™ CE to be used at the cold-end, in the QC lab or in production environment
• ID SCAN™ HE to be used at the hot-end, before annealing

The bottle to be measured is manually loaded and the measurement cycle is managed fully automatically.

Measurements are carried out by a single contact tactile bore gauge, mounted on a rotating stage that can also travel in vertical direction.

Measurable characteristics include:

• bore diameter at one or more programmable depths (no limit to the number of bore diameters to be measured)
• internal profile in vertical direction

ID SCAN™ HE, for use at the hot-end, integrates some additional features to withstand hot-end ambient conditions, and to allow the measurement of non-tempered glass bottles

Benefits

• accurate: to achieve accurate measurements, ID SCAN™ uses a single contact tactile bore gauge
• comprehensive: it can measure
  • bore diameter, at different depths, also providing a visual representation of the bore real shape at each measured section
  • internal profile with a graphic representation of the diameter variation in the scanned area
• flexible: no mechanical retooling required
• compatible with Manufacturing Execution Softwares (MES): ID SCAN™ is fully integrated with the most popular MES (e.g. Vertech SIL™ and others). ID SCAN™ receives from the MES  all the information required to automatically generate the recipe related to the article to be measured. No programming is required by the operator on ID SCAN™. After the measurement of each container, results related to the mould, are sent to the MES.
• simple to use

Specifications