Optimally Adjusting Filling Processes: How Checkweighers Increase Profit

Again and again it can be seen that far too little attention is paid to checkweighing as part of the food manufacturing and packaging process. Companies that employ it appropriately – with the entire production process in mind – and so consciously avoid weak links in the overall production chain, can make an additional contribution to their own value creation.

Global competition, the variety of technological development, and short product life cycles are amongst the driving forces behind changes that make continuous optimization of the production environment essential. Quality that contributes to value creation only comes into being when every part of the production process is tuned to every other, allowing them to mesh seamlessly together.