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Labeler loads up on pharma tech

Labeler’s subsystems, including 100% label inspection, are tailor made for contract packagers.

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The Model SM 9000 ACLS label application machine from SPS/PHIN Limited (www.spsphin.com), integrates three subsystems—printing, optical character verification, and label inspection—in one machine frame.

For the simplest of these subsystems, label-presence inspection, SPS/PHIN sought a solution that would not only provide simple setup and pass/fail output like a traditional sensor, but also offer flexibility to ease changeovers for performing inspections
on a wide variety of products. The search led the firm to choose the
Cognex (www.cognex.com) Checker inspection sensor. Checker replaces multiple photoelectric sensors and can detect features that conventional sensors cannot.

“Checker is also less costly than a machine vision system and more reliable than a conventional sensor,” explains SPS/PHIN technician John Sadkowski. “It’s working great in this application.”

Checker’s high-speed operation allows it to capture a half-dozen images of each passing bottle. By analyzing views from different perspectives, Checker achieves high inspection reliability compared to other inspection sensors. Another attractive Checker feature, says Sadkowski, is that it includes programmable logic controller-like capabilities and directly accepts encoder input to inspect, track, and reject items on variable speed packaging lines, all without a PLC.

“Checker is much easier to work with for new products, and it has more options,” Sadkowski explains.

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