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An overview
of the corkage
profile

This example shows the glass thickness This example shows the sunk and bulge (side
distribution on the sidewall of a bottle. The wall label area flatness). The X axis shows
X axis shows the radial position in degrees the radial position in degrees around the bot-
around the bottle whereas the Y axis show tle whereas the Y axis show the height loca-
the height location on the side wall. tion on the side wall. Red denotes sunken
Red denotes thinner glass, blue thicker areas, blue shows bulged areas and green is
glass and green is the optimum thickness. the flat area of the bottle.

the glass distribution around the who want to increase their pro- end however up until now have
mould. This exclusive informa- ductivity at a high quality level. never had the right tools for our
tion adds value for customers who The glassmaker: “Our facility people to do so. To have a sys-
want to monitor their process in recently purchased a Hot Lab. We tem that provides actual measure-
more detail. are a one-furnace, three-produc- ments and dimensional analysis
The new internal bore profile tion-line operation manufacturing at the hot-end on hot bottles
report feature provides the cus- wine bottles using both the blow enables us to verify quality in
tomer with an overview of the blow and narrow neck press and real time rather than waiting for
corkage profile for each measured blow processes. We typically job cold-end inspection feedback.
bottle together with the associated change two to three times per The system becomes extremely
results in a simple table. These week with bottles ranging from beneficial when troubleshooting
results are stored locally and can 350 grams through to 800+ quality issues as you are able to
be exported as a pdf report or csv grams in weight. Our line speeds measure containers instantly post
data format. range from 170 to 330 bpm. IS machine changes rather than
We have installed the Hot Lab waiting for cold-end feedback.
2017 CUSTOMER CASE STUDY system in the hot-end on one of Our lehr times range from 60
One of Tiama’s new custom- our production lines. We use this to 90+ minutes so this feedback
ers, who is a major player of machine to check sets four times saves us a lot of time and money.
the glass container industry, was per shift with the remainder of Robot technology enables our
recently asked what they thought the time used for troubleshoot- people to focus on core duties
of the Tiama Hot Lab after four ing and requalifying ware post now spending more time oper-
months of intensive use. His sectional stoppages. ating the machine rather than
reply is further proof that the This system has transformed inspecting ware. Our people sim-
Tiama Hot Lab is becoming a the way we operate. We con- ply load up a bottle cart and let
‘must have’ for all glassmakers tinuously drive quality in the hot- the robot do the rest feeding bot-

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