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PreWatcher Offline

The new standard for the quality control of opaque and transparent preforms! The system offers a high-speed, comprehensive inspection, short conversion time and easy further processing.

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PreWatcher Offline

The new standard for the quality control of opaque and transparent preforms! The system offers a high-speed, comprehensive inspection, short conversion time and easy further processing.

The all-rounder for your preform quality assurance

Whether transparent or opaque, big or small - with its 18 cameras, the system can handle any preform. It guarantees full product safety thanks to a 100% inspection without any blind areas. In addition, the system is quickly and effortlessly adjustable to your preform portfolio. This leads to huge savings in time and money when converting to new products. Thanks to its form fit star wheel separation, the system precisely separates and positions the preforms. Overall, the PreWatcher Offline is the optimal solution for your preform quality control due to several options for targeted ejection and an inspection performance of up to 100,000 preforms per hour.

The preform inspection system can be implemented in your production in different ways: on the one hand, it can used as an offline system to quickly re-sort preforms of your retained production. On the other hand, thanks to its linear handling system, the PreWatcher Offline can also be integrated inline directly behind the injection molding machine.

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High-speed 100% preform inspection

At a glance

Key features that make the PreWatcher Offline unique

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Full product safety

100% full control without blind areas

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Star wheel separation

Highly precise separation and positioning of preforms

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Second ejector

Easy collection of sample preforms

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For any kind of preform

Quality assurance of your whole product range

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Extensive statistics

In-depth insights into your production quality

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Space-saving design

Smooth integration on 3 m² – inline and offline

Inspection criteria of the PreWatcher Offline

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Geometry / body

  • Length, shape, diameter
  • Length of the injection gate
  • Unmelts
  • Bubbles and burners
  • Impurities (also oil marks)
2

Cavity number reading

  • Sorting based on defined cavity numbers
  • Cavity-correlated statistics
3

Color

  • Color and intensity deviations (ΔL *, Δa *, Δb *)
  • UV measurement (presence of UV blocker)
  • IR measurement (presence of barrier material)
4

Mouth

  • Diameter and ovality
  • Long shots and short shots
  • Scratches and notches in the area of the sealing surface
  • Defect at neck support ring
5

Thread

  • Contamination
  • Thread dimensions
  • Neck support ring defects
6

Injection point

  • Wells
  • Holes
  • Contaminations in the area of the injection gate
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Overall production control

The pre-installed and customer-specific inspection software ensures the necessary process safety and reliability in everyday production. Thanks to the extensive user management, each user can only make authorized adjustments. Furthermore, cavity-specific inspection results and trends are issued which can be used for production optimization and control.

This collected quality data also serves as the basis for comprehensive inspection reports to be submitted to your customers. Consequently, you can provide in-depth information about the quality of your entire production down to individual batches or packaging units at any time.

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FAQs about the PreWatcher Offline

  • The PreWatcher Offline inspects up to 100.000 objects per hour.

  • Geometry / body:
    • Length, shape, diameter
    • Length of the injection gate
    • Unmelts
    • Bubbles and burners
    • Impurities (also oil marks)

     

    Cavity number reading
    • Sorting based on defined cavity numbers
    • Cavity-correlated statistics

    Color
    • Color and intensity deviations (ΔL *, Δa *, Δb *)
    • UV measurement (presence of UV blocker)
    • IR measurement (presence of barrier material)


    Mouth
    • Diameter and ovality
    • Long shots and short shots
    • Scratches and notches in the area of the sealing surface
    • Defect at neck support ring

     

    Injection gate
    • Hollows, holes
    • Contaminations in the area of the injection point


    Thread
    • Contamination, thread dimensions
    • Neck support ring defects

  • The preforms can be transparent, translucent or opaque. They should have a diameter of 10 – 50 mm (at the body) and a height of 40 – 160 mm. If these dimensions do not fit to your preforms, please contact us to find an individual solution for you.

  • The PreWatcher Offline has two ejection units. For example, one ejector can be used to reject faulty parts. The second one can be beneficial to segregate contaminated preforms and to exclude them from the recycling process.

  • INTRAVIS offers turnkey systems, worldwide support and training courses as well as comprehensive printed and digital information material for every single system. After the purchase of the system, INTRAVIS does not leave you alone with your new vision system. Moreover, service contracts offer worldwide support and service, even within 24 hours.

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Contact us and find the best solution

Are you ready for a 100% preform quality assurance? Do you have questions or do you need further information? We are looking forward to hearing from you.