IntelliADJUST™ is a Sidel patented solution which guarantees consistent quality and high efficiency. It works within a ‘closed loop’ system using interferometric sensor technology, and ensures perfect material distribution, resulting in high production uniformity for PET bottles, including those made from recycled PET.
It also enables consistent bottle quality across a range of variable production conditions, such as preform storage, workshop temperature and relative humidity. In-line, autonomous bottle control and real-time digitised process adjustments result in perfect material distribution. The impact of changing production conditions and PET resin specificities on bottle quality is significantly reduced when using this expert-free solution.
The addition of Sidel’s Evo-ON software suite, offers aggregation of equipment data and dynamic analytics features to deploy historical and 24/7 real-time analysis, creating a truly smart line system.
Stéphane Menard, Product Manager for blowing care at Sidel, explained that IntelliADJUST™ measures in-line bottle thickness, analyses and adjusts parameters to ensure consistent quality:
“This easy-to-use blowing solution, maximises the number of marketable bottles by ensuring that quality control is consistently high. IntelliADJUST™ offsets any production line variations by using algorithms to identify measured thickness deviations and automatically corrects the heating and blowing parameters to ensure consistent quality without any interruptions.”
Moving towards low carbon footprint packaging
The blow moulding process is becoming more important as the drive for ultimate lightweighting and increasing the amount of rPET content within the industry continues.
IntelliADJUST™ is 100% reliable across a wide range of PET preforms including translucent, opaque, coloured (non-TiO2), virgin and up to 100% rPET. It is particularly valuable in helping customers who want to introduce rPET as there are multiple sources of supply and therefore more variability in material grades. The system is capable of securing perfect material distribution on the bottle despite resin variability risks.
