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Bottle Sauce

INDUSTRY BACKGROUND AND CORE CHALLENGES

With the growth of the condiment market and the automation of the food industry, bottled sauces—such as ketchup, chili sauce, salad dressing, and various seasonings—are widely used in household consumption, foodservice, and food processing. Bottled packaging offers advantages such as excellent sealing, ease of storage, and convenient transport, making it a key packaging format for these products.

However, during high-speed automated filling processes, bottled sauces can encounter quality issues such as insufficient fill levels, filling inaccuracies, skewed caps, sealing defects, missing codes, and foreign object contamination. Traditional manual inspection methods struggle to achieve the high speed, continuity, and consistency required for effective quality control.

Consequently, bottled sauce production lines require automated in-line inspection solutions to monitor parameters—including fill levels, cap integrity, coding, weight, and foreign object risks—in real time. By promptly rejecting non-conforming products, these systems help manufacturers boost production efficiency, mitigate quality risks, and safeguard both product safety and brand reputation.

Bottle Sauce
  • GLASS & PLASTIC BOTTLE PACKAGING
  • TUBE PACKAGING

SCENARIO 1: GLASS & PLASTIC BOTTLE PACKAGING LINE

The Ultimate Defense Against Foreign Objects and "Level/Cap/Label" Labels

 

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Application scenarios: Bottled chili sauce, wide-mouth salad dressing, and squeeze-type ketchup bottles commonly found on supermarket shelves.

Key pain points

Fatal defects in appearance and sealing: High-speed capping can easily result in incomplete capping (high outer cap/crooked cap), leading to vacuum failure and deterioration; bottle labeling is prone to bubbling and misalignment; foaming during filling can cause inconsistent liquid levels.

Foreign object blind spot: The bottle opening area is prone to forming a blind spot, where tiny foreign objects and sauce are mixed together and are extremely difficult to detect.

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Test items

Visual Inspection - High Cover and Anti-theft Ring: Accurately identifies whether the cover is tilted (crooked cover), whether it is properly pressed in (high cover), and whether the anti-theft ring is broken.

Visual inspection - High-precision liquid level: Intelligent algorithms filter out wall adhesion and foam interference, accurately locating the true liquid level height.

Visual inspection - Label Inspection: Identifies height differences between front and back labels, label wrinkles and lifting, and OCR coding defects.

X-ray Inspection: Unique blind spot compensation algorithm avoids blind spots in the bottle opening area, and can also collect and generate images based on different X-ray penetration rates to distinguish sauce particles and foreign objects, accurately identify and remove them.

 

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Scenario 4: Squeeze Tubes Filling Line

 

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Application scenarios: Japanese wasabi tubes, high-end condiment tubes.

 

Key pain points:

Leaking and misalignment at the sealing end: If sauce gets trapped when pressing the end of the tube, it will cause poor welding at the sealing end; at the same time, misalignment of the pattern/color mark at the sealing end will seriously affect the product grade.

Stamped coding is difficult to identify: The tail of the hose usually uses a physical stamped coding (without color), which is difficult to see with traditional cameras.

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Test items:

End-cap pattern correction: Identify the color markings at the end of the tube to ensure that the patterns on the front and back are absolutely centered and symmetrical.

Tail-end leakage: Captures tiny bits of sauce or dirt that have spilled out from the seal indentation.

OCR coding recognition: Customized solutions are available for different coding methods. For example, steel stamp coding uses low-angle dark field lighting to create a three-dimensional shadow on the colorless embossed steel stamp, achieving 100% accurate recognition.

 

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