Don Stevens is the packaging engineer for the C7 line at the Miller Brewery in the United States. He is still impressed with the significant role played by the 20/20 Hinsight high-speed camera in solving the major failures of C7 packaging equipment during the peak season last summer.
“The beer bottle sealing machine was repeatedly faulty last summer and the loss was huge. In order to control the scrap rate caused by sealing defects, we had to adjust the production speed from 2000 bottles/min to 1800 bottles/min. In the peak season of beer sales, the products have always been In short supply, our order delivery time has been greatly delayed, because we have to bear the loss of beer products of 4 big trucks every shift, counting 3 shifts a day is the loss of beer of 12 big trucks, the packaging line at that time The speed is very fast (1800-2000 cpm, we can't analyze the cause for a while, the pressure of production is getting bigger and bigger, the customer is getting more and more tight, we urgently purchased the 20/20 hindsight high-speed camera through consultation, through high-speed monitoring The slow playback video of the device, in just 5 minutes, we broke out the cause of the fault. It turned out that a bearing in the conveyor belt was loose, causing the conveyor belt to be unstable, which caused the beer bottle to shake slightly, resulting in the bottle mouth. Misplacement eventually led to repeated accidents of filling, and with the help of high-speed cameras, we quickly detected The cause of the malfunction of the mechanical equipment, the symptomatic maintenance has become easy and effective, and more importantly, after solving the fundamental problem, the problem has not happened again, we have saved huge losses and put arrears The order was added, making the cost of investing in this high-speed camera device insignificant."
“Overall, this high-speed camera is very user-friendly and doesn't take up too much space. The mainframe system and monitor are mounted on a removable stainless steel cart for free movement anywhere in the factory. What we have to do is put it at the point where the fault occurred. It can automatically record for 6 hours at 3000 frames per second through external triggering, so there is no need for additional personnel to look after and operate. When the fault occurs, we Going back to slow playback, it is very convenient to find the root cause of the fault. What's even more amazing is that even if we play back the video on the camera to find the cause of the fault, it still continues to record normally, one second is not delayed. !"
In addition to using 20/20hindsight video equipment on the sealing machine, Miller Brewery also applies the equipment to the labeling machine and the packing and packaging line, for example on the labeling machine, because the bottle advances slowly. The speed of the standard machine, so the label has been inaccurate. Through the slow analysis of the high-speed camera equipment, the delay relay of the labeling machine has been re-adjusted, which easily solves such problems, greatly reduces the scrap rate and improves the production efficiency. To ensure the quality of the product.