General Measure In-motion Checkweigher: Provide Cost Saving and Real Time Quality Management

It is quite significant for some industry to recheck weight after production process, for the purpose of quality, security and cost management, such as pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industry. To some extent, weight means security and money.

General Measure provides checkweigher with various weights scale, from 100g to 60kg, which fulfills the require of many different industry. In Indonesia, we have successfully applied our checkweigher CW-100G, CW-600G and CWOS-06K in certain famous cosmetics factory for weight checking on production end line, as a part of outgoing quality control, which assures the product’s quality and enhance the efficiency of OQC process.

One of the cosmetics factory in Indonesia faced some problems in their production process:

1. Auger filling without weighing results in fluctuating weights;

2. Inefficient manual recheck of weight;

3. High labor cost;

4. Manual daily report can not meet the real time reporting for management.

Thus, applying in-motion checkweigher seems quite important for them to improve efficiency of the production process and decrease the labor cost.

Considering the environment of their workshop and their product specification, they come out with some requirements:

• Rust free with S304 Structure Design;

• Accuracy within 0.3g;

• Production speed: 150 piece/min, saving labor cost;

• Automatic daily report to PC.

Whilst General Measure offers the Checkweigher CW-100G in special design with wind shield for avoiding the wind and vibration. The statistic report can be exported for daily data analysis and management, which is totally fulfill the clients demands.

No matter for what kind of cosmetics production line, bottles, boxes or masks, General Measure can offer the suitable checkweigher and solution to fit the requirement.  

Foxconn Case - M02 application on Force

Foxconn is a high-tech group specializing in the production of electronic 3C products and semiconductor equipment. It is well-known as the world's largest manufacturer. The force process is an indispensable part of the production of electronic consumer goods. General Measure's universal indicator M02 is used in the force process for Foxconn's electronic products.

 

The Multiple Force Application of M02 in Foxconn Production

After the screen installation of the mobile phone, tablet, and computer, the maximum and minimum value of the force on the screen should be tested and recorded for ensuring the quality of the products.

The keyboard and mouse of the computer also need the force process to make sure the type and click strength of each button after the assembly is completed, which can guarantee that all the buttons meet the quality standard by ergonomic design to achieve the most comfortable using state.

The insertion and extraction of plug ports of the smartphone, tablet, and computer should be tested for better user experience when using the products.

 

The Application of M02 in Force Process

No matter it is the force test on the screen, keyboard, mouse, or the insertion and extraction for plug ports, M02 can accurately and quickly catch the force value perceived from the load cell, then convert it into weight data and display it on the indicator. Whilst the weight signal will be transmitted to the external control system. The control system performs the corresponding action based on the received signal, such as stop pressure, collect peaks, and so on. Through the collection and transmission of weight data during the force process by M02, the whole force process can be controlled precisely, eventually ensuring the product quality.

The Advantage of M02

• Display function for checking the weight data in real time.

• Real-time data transmission

• High precision, up to 1/100000

• Fast response, up to 960 times / sec

• High product stability

Every year, nearly 5,000 M02 operate stably on the production line of Foxconn's electronics products. General Measure's weighing indicator M02, to some extent, give the support for the products quality assurance of Foxconn.

Troubleshooting for OFL of Weighing Indicator

Considering OFL is a frequent problem of the weighing indicator that mentioned by clients, we shot this video for self detecting.

The problem of OFL contains 4 situations:

Weight overflow,

weight underflow,

The signal of loadcell too low 

The signal of loadcell too high.

There are 4 reasons that can trigger OFL:

First: Indicator parameters setup error,

Second: external wiring error,

Third: loadcell damage,  

Fourth: Indicator hardware damage.

The equipment needed for OFL detecting:

A weighing platform with the full scale of 20kg,

A GM9907-LD Weighing Indicator,

A weight of 2kg,

A straight screwdriver and a digital multimeter with a millivolt voltage range.

Now please follow steps in the video to find out OFL reasons.