“Yes we Can” ?? Check Cans Inside a Box?? using Contrinex Long-range Analogue?? Inductives?? - www.Analogue.PLUSAx.co.uk

To ensure that sealed cardboard cartons have the required number of tinned food cans inside them, a packaging company trusts Contrinex’s analogue inductive sensors. Using an analogue sensor enables this final pre-shipment quality check to process different sizes of can as well as manage with different material grades of can.

CUSTOMER APPLICATION

Canned products and their labels are protected during delivery by being tightly packed into sturdy sealed cardboard boxes. This poses a challenge to food packaging companies because retailers, particularly supermarkets require absolute accuracy in the contents of the carton, but at final inspection, the carton is already sealed and so the contents can not be visually inspected.

Therefore to eliminate the risk that product faults that may have occurred during upstream processes are shipped out to the customers, the packing company needed a way to verify what tins are inside the sealed box. Because the packaging line handles a variety of cans of different sizes and materials,?a conventional on-off switching inductive proximity sensor could not be used.

An additional challenge is that the sensor needs to be part of a verification process integrated into a fast-moving automated packaging and pre-shipment line, accepting or rejecting each carton instantly.

CUSTOMER SOLUTION

Analogue inductive sensors from Contrinex’s 509 Series are ideal for this application because their Condist? oscillator technology ensures excellent environmental stability, ?especially to temperature. This is key in providing sensing distances up to 3 times the standard (in this case 40 mm from the M30 sized sensor).

This extra sensing distance ability enables them to obtain a good signal not only through multiple layers of cardboard but also from different conductive metals at varying distances, depending on the can type.

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PRODUCT ADVANTAGES

??? High-speed distance sensing, ??? Long sensing ranges up to 40mm, ?? Resolution in μM Range, ?? Near Linear Current and Voltage Output, ??? Highly Reliable with Long Service Life, ??? Exceptional Temperature Stability, ???Low-cost solution, ?? Several Switch Points.

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