Bottle inspection systems for every critical check

Inspection overview

One inspection platform, multiple bottle checks

Bottle inspection is rarely a single-camera task. Transparent, reflective and curved containers can require carefully positioned backlights, dome lights or strobed illumination to expose the right features without reflections obscuring the result.

We can combine top, side and base views with encoder tracking so every decision remains associated with the correct bottle as it reaches the reject point. Recipes can support different bottle sizes, products and label variants where the application allows.

Checks that can be combined

The final inspection set is selected from the visible features, risk, product presentation and achievable image resolution.

• Bottle presence and correct orientation
• High, low or missing fill indication
• Neck, rim, shoulder and sidewall defects
• Cap presence, height, colour and seating
• Label presence, position, skew and identity
• Date, lot, barcode and 2D code verification
• Foreign feature or visible contamination checks
• Bottle tracking to confirmed automatic rejection

Application details we review

Early clarity on these points helps avoid false rejects, blind spots and mechanical changes late in the project.

• Glass or PET behaviour under the selected lighting
• Clear, coloured, opaque or sleeved bottle variants
• Line speed, pitch and conveyor stability
• Required views and smallest defect to be detected
• Wet, chilled or washdown environments
• Available space between inspection and reject points

Prove the bottle checks before line integration

Representative good and defective bottles are used to establish achievable contrast, camera geometry and reject logic before the final mechanical design is fixed.

Feasibility work establishes the camera view, lens, light, exposure and image-processing approach. We then define the enclosure, conveyor changes, controls, operator interface and rejection needed for production.