Application Note: Glass Bottle Bent Neck Inspection Vision System Safeguards Filling And Capping Equipment

Defective bottles often cause damage to expensive filling and capping equipment and result in both filling line downtime for repairs as well as the cost and delay of ordering replacement parts.

Records show that as glass bottle quality has declined in the U.S. in recent years, the number of bottles arriving at filling lines for wines and spirits with necks bent out of true vertical has increased. These defective bottles often cause damage to expensive filling and capping equipment and result in both filling line downtime for repairs as well as the cost and delay of ordering replacement parts.