An underfilled bottle is a customer complaint. An overfilled bottle is a leak risk and a regulatory issue. Vision-based fill-level inspection sees the meniscus, computes the volume, and rejects the exceptions — at 600 bottles per minute, with 1 mm sensitivity.
Even calibrated fillers drift over a shift due to product viscosity, temperature, or feed pressure. Without inspection, the drift is invisible until customer complaints arrive. With inspection, every bottle is verified and the filler is recalibrated automatically when drift is detected.
Add a single camera station immediately downstream of the filler. Each bottle imaged at the same angle relative to the filler; meniscus detected; volume computed against spec. Out-of-spec bottles diverted before they reach the capper. Filler drift detected within minutes, not customer-complaint-windows.
Specify the IX-AS/01 with backlight at the inspection zone. The transparent bottle illuminated from behind shows the meniscus crisply at any product opacity from water to motor oil. Per-bottle fill telemetry feeds the filler PID loop in real time — closed-loop fill control.
Bottle illuminated from behind to highlight meniscus and headspace.
Camera images each bottle at consistent height. Image resolves meniscus to 1 mm.
Volume calculated from meniscus position. Compared against per-SKU spec window.
In-spec / under / over verdict to PLC. Reject diversion + filler drift telemetry.
Tell us your line, your existing equipment, and your tolerance window. We'll come back with a retrofit assessment, a greenfield specification, and a rough cost estimate within two business days.