Drones Added to Filling Lines Help Reduce Bottle Breakage
With its recent acquisition of a significant share in Canada-based Smart Skin Technologies, German glass packaging manufacturer Schott (schott.com) aims to leverage drone technology to raise packaging quality and reduce breakage on filling lines.
By mimicking the shape of vials, cartridges and syringes, Smart Skin’s drones, which are equipped with hundreds of sensors, can measure how packaging spins and tilts as it moves through the production line. These measurements are then sent via Bluetooth to the company’s Quantifeel software, which creates heat maps and records videos of events to help companies understand the forces that their packaging is exposed to on filling and packaging lines.