Prevents Underfilled or Overfilled Packages Checkweigher

• Customization: Available
• After-sales Service: Support
• Warranty: 2 Year
• Model NO.: CVW4021
• Check Weight Range: 1-999g
• Application Area: Food & Beverage Industry
• Type: High Precision Series
• Touch Screen: Touch Screen
• Sorting Method: Pusher-bar
• Transport Package: Strong Ploywoodencase
• Specification: 2cbm
• Trademark: vikingdetector
• Origin: Made in China
• HS Code: 8543709100
• Production Capacity: 50 Pieces/Weeek

Product Description

Title: Checkweighers in Packaging: Preventing Underfilled or Overfilled Packages

Introduction:

In the fast-paced world of manufacturing and packaging, ensuring the accuracy of product weights is critical for both regulatory compliance and customer satisfaction. Checkweighers play a vital role in this process by accurately verifying the weight of each packaged item, preventing issues such as underfilled or overfilled packages. This article explores the significance of checkweighers in packaging, their operation principles, and how they contribute to maintaining quality control in various industries.

Importance of Checkweighers in Packaging:

Checkweighers are specialized weighing machines used in packaging lines to verify whether individual products meet specified weight criteria. The significance of checkweighers lies in their ability to prevent the distribution of products that deviate from the intended weight range, addressing both legal and quality concerns. The primary reasons for using checkweighers include:

1. **Regulatory Compliance:** Many industries are subject to regulations that mandate accurate product labeling and packaging. Checkweighers help companies comply with these regulations by ensuring that products meet the specified weight requirements.

2. **Consumer Confidence:** Inconsistent product weights can lead to customer dissatisfaction and erode trust in a brand. Checkweighers contribute to maintaining a consistent product quality, bolstering consumer confidence and loyalty.

3. **Cost Savings:** By preventing the distribution of underfilled or overfilled packages, companies avoid potential fines and legal consequences associated with non-compliance. Additionally, accurate packaging helps optimize material usage, reducing waste and associated costs.

Operation Principles of Checkweighers:

Checkweighers operate based on a set of principles designed to achieve precise and reliable weight measurements. The key components of checkweigher operation include:

1. **Conveyor Belt System:** Products move along a conveyor belt, passing through the checkweigher system. The conveyor ensures a steady flow of products for continuous weighing.

2. **Load Cell Technology:** Checkweighers use load cells, which are sensors that measure the force exerted by the product on the conveyor belt. The load cell converts this force into an electrical signal, providing a real-time weight measurement.

3. **Dynamic Weighing:** Checkweighers perform dynamic weighing, meaning they measure the weight of products in motion. This allows for high-speed and accurate weight measurements as products move through the system.

4. **Feedback Control System:** The checkweigher is equipped with a feedback control system that compares the measured weight of each product to the predefined weight range. If a product falls outside this range, the system triggers an action, such as rejecting the non-compliant item.

Preventing Underfilled or Overfilled Packages:

Checkweighers play a crucial role in preventing underfilled or overfilled packages through the following mechanisms:

1. **Real-Time Monitoring:** Checkweighers provide real-time monitoring of each packaged item, immediately identifying any deviations from the specified weight range.

2. **Automatic Rejection:** When a product falls outside the acceptable weight range, the checkweigher triggers an automatic rejection mechanism. This ensures that only accurately weighed products proceed to the packaging stage.

3. **Adjustable Parameters:** Checkweighers allow operators to set adjustable parameters for different product lines. This flexibility accommodates variations in product characteristics and weight requirements.

4. **Integration with Packaging Lines:** Checkweighers are seamlessly integrated into packaging lines, ensuring a streamlined and efficient process. Integration allows for quick and accurate weight verification before products are sealed and labeled.

Conclusion:

Checkweighers are indispensable in the packaging industry, serving as a final line of defense against underfilled or overfilled packages. Their operation principles, incorporating advanced technology such as load cells and dynamic weighing, enable real-time monitoring and automatic rejection of non-compliant products. By investing in checkweighing technology, manufacturers not only ensure regulatory compliance but also enhance consumer confidence, reduce costs associated with fines and waste, and ultimately uphold the quality and integrity of their packaged products.

High Performance Checkweighing for Manufacturers

A high performance checkweigher from Vikingdetector  helps prevent underfilled or overfilled packages from reaching consumers. It also reduces product waste and rework time, provides completeness checks for package components and important production data for process improvements.

Comply with Industry Regulations and Local Weights and Measures

Dynamic checkweighers verify the weight of every product on the line, detecting and remove an underfilled product before it becomes a problem. In addition, the load cells that power our checkweighers are able to filter out environmental noise that could influence the weighing result, meaning a reduction in false rejects.
This helps to keep manufacturers in compliance with local weights and measures regulations as well as industry standards. More importantly, it helps to reduce production costs by reducing wasted product through the use of real-time feedback and automatic adjustment to filling equipment.

The optional Due Diligence Kits add further monitoring options, which make certain non-conforming or defective products are safely removed from the production line. To make rework easier to perform, the system can even sort products into different reject bins depending on the issue.

Check weigher catalog
Parameter        Model	High speed and high precision Check weigher			Large-scale Check weigher
	CVW2512	CVW4021	CVW4530	CVW6240	CVW10750	CVW12060
Power supply	AC220V±10% 50HZ(60HZ)
Power	0.1KW	0.15KW	0.4KW
Weight range	≤200g	≤1000g	≤3000g	≤15kg	≤40kg	≤50kg
Weighing accuracy range	±0.05g~±0.1g	±0.3g~±1g	±0.5g~±2g	±2g~±10g	±5g~±30g	±5g~±30g
Mini screen value	0.01g	0.1g		1g	1g	1g
Belt speed ( meter/min )	20~60m/min	30~100m/min	30~90m/min	30~70m/min	20~35m/min	15~25m/min
Max speed	180  pcs/min	160  pcs/min	80  pcs/min	60  pcs/min	30  pcs/min	30  pcs/min
Suitable product dimensions	≤100mm(L)*100mm(W)	≤280mm(L)*210mm(W)	≤300mm(L)*290mm(W)	≤450mm(L)*390mm(W)	≤650mm(L)*490mm(W)	≤650mm(L)*590mm(W)
Weight zone size	250mm(L)*120mm(W)	400mm(L)*210mm(W)	450mm(L)*300mm(W)	620mm(L)*400mm(W)	1075mm(L)*500mm(W)	1200mm(L)*600mm(W)
Size	900mm(L)*500mm(W) *1250mm(H)	1522mm(L)*560mm(W) *1222mm(H)	1800mm(L)*661mm(W) *1188mm(H)	2140mm(L)*1110mm(W) *1231mm(H)	1888mm(L)*935mm(W) *1060mm(H)	2135mm(L)*1046mm(W) *1060mm(H)
Reject system	Air blast	Push rod, Flap drop	Push rod,Flap drop	Push rod	Push rod	Push rod
Control system	High speed A/D sampling controller
Parameter storage	2000
Operation direction	Facing the operating system, from left to right
External power supply	0.6-1Mpa
Pneumatic interface	Φ8mm
working environment	Temperature: 0ºC~40ºC,Humidity:30%~95%
Frame material	SUS304 SUS