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Ensuring the highest product quality is a priority and indispensable goal, especially in the production of food. The tightness of the product container plays an important role.

Leaks can cause their contents to escape to the outside. It is much more important, however, that germs penetrate the container and spoil the products as a result.

The INDEC vacuum testing systems automatically monitor the tightness of containers directly in the production process. A wide variety of containers such as bottles, jars and cans are checked for leaks without contact and defective containers are removed from the product flow.

Sometimes, however, small food manufacturers have limited financial budgets to invest in a new complete system for checking closures. For this reason we have developed the price-sensitive basic system INDEC VD 80 and launched it on the market now. The INDEC VD 80 only contains the three core components display unit, connection unit and the sensor head. The required frame components for holding and aligning the sensor head and for holding the display unit and the connection unit often exist from old sensors systems that have been used up to now, which can no longer be repaired economically after more than 15 years of usage. With little effort, those can be modified to accommodate the new core components. The INDEC VD 80 does not differ in any way from the INDEC VD 100 in terms of functionality and reliability.

INDEC VD 80 consisting of display unit, connection unit and sensor head
Of course, if required, these additional components can be retrofitted at any time at a later date according to the following table.

Due to the excellent, semi-automatic self-learning process for determining the sensor parameters (recipes), it is possible for the customer to start up the system himself in the same way as for the INDEC VD 100 with the INDEC VD 80. The deployment of a KoCoS technician or a technician from our local representative on site is not mandatory.

Spanish user interface at INDEC VD 100 vacuum inspection device

The vacuum inspection systems from KoCoS, which have been tried and tested in practice all over the world, monitor a wide variety of containers such as bottles, jars and cans for leaks in-line during the production process. Containers with insufficient vacuum are reliably detected and removed fully automatically. Highest reliability and easiest handling characterize the processor controlled inspection systems and are the first choice for many food manufacturers.

INDEC VD 100 vacuum testing systems are also increasingly used in Spain for cap inspection. In response to numerous requests by customers at this region, KoCoS decided to develop a Spanish user interface for INDEC VD 100 system and to integrate it as standard in the new firmware. This new Spanish user interface is now available for all new orders for INDEC VD 80 / VD 100 series since spring 2022. Of course, this software update can also be retrofitted in already delivered INDEC VD 100 units.

Users of the INDEC VD 100 can now simply choose their preferred language version between the four user interfaces in German, English, French and Spanish. This significantly simplifies the operation of this INDEC series. Even untrained personnel are now able to generate the relevant sensor parameters (recipes) on the INDEC VD 100. This measure also improves the safety of operation and the acceptance of the INDEC VD 100 series.

The complete commissioning and installation of INDEC VD 100 on the customer's own initiative without the support of a KoCoS technician on site in the Spanish-speaking region is facilitated. This innovation enables the end customer to save considerable installation costs.

Electrical switching contact for signalling the operational readiness of INDEC VD 100 vacuum inspection device

With our INDEC series vacuum inspection systems, food manufacturers have the certainty that the HACCP principles (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points) are fulfilled.

In the past, we have been asked several times by our customers whether INDEC VD 100 inspection system can provide a signal to the higher-level machine control which signals that the measuring system is ready for operation. This electrical switching contact for signalling the switch-on state of INDEC VD 100 system is now also available as a retrofit option for already supplied INDEC systems.

After pressing the main switch on the front panel, the INDEC VD 100 vacuum device is switched on. A visual check of the device by the user ensures that the vacuum tester is ready for operation, the relevant recipe has been loaded and all distances for the sensor head and the light barrier have been set correctly. The readiness for operation of the INDEC VD 100 is signalled to the higher-level machine control system by an electrical switching contact.

An additional optical coupler, which is mounted on the terminal strip as shown below, is used to exclude any interference between the machine controls.

Once the connection has been made according to the updated connection diagram, this ready signal is then permanently available in the customer's higher-level machine control. The filling line is only started after an internal, positive acknowledgement in the control system. This link ensures that all bottles and jars produced are subjected to a closure check.

The series fault switch contact at INDEC VD 100 vacuum inspection system to stop the entire filling line

With our INDEC range of vacuum testing systems, food manufacturers can be sure that HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points) principles are being met. KoCoS vacuum inspection systems are characterised by their superior detection sensitivity and automatic separation of defective products.

Sometimes the lid feed in the capping machine is interrupted. As a result, all containers leave the capping machine without lids. This is particularly annoying because often all uncapped jars have to be disposed of with costs.

Increasingly, our customers who use an INDEC 100 vacuum testing system for cap inspection in production want to stop the filling process immediately if this error, also known as a serial error, occurs. This serial fault switch contact is now also available as a retrofit option for already delivered INDEC VD 100 vacuum testers that have already been delivered.

Once the connection has been made in accordance with wiring diagram, that stop signal is then permanently available in the customer's higher-level machine control system.

This retrofitting of the series fault switch contact on the INDEC VD 100 enables the customer to intervene immediately in the filling process and minimize the scrap of defective containers.

The external signal outputs in vacuum inspection device INDEC 300 for recording counter figures in the customer's data network

With our INDEC range of vacuum testing systems, food manufacturers can be sure that HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points) principles are met. KoCoS vacuum inspection systems are characterized by their superior detection sensitivity and automatic separation of defective products.

Increasingly, our customers who use an INDEC 300 vacuum inspection system for closure inspection in production want to feed the data obtained into their data acquisition system or into the higher-level machine control system. INDEC 300 offers a variety of linking possibilities for this purpose.

Often you want to transfer the counter figures for the GOOD, BAD and TOTAL products into the company's own data network for extensive evaluations for quality control. The INDEC 300 is ideally equipped for this. All three counter figures can be determined
simultaneously by setting the pulse duration between 1...120 ms of the respective counter pulses once by the respective global parameters and switching the respective outputs from OFF to ON.

Once the connection has been made according to the connection diagram - marked yellow here - these pulses are then permanently available in the higher-level machine control and the customer's data network.

 

Analogue to the kwon standard screen of INDEC 300 device, those counter numbers can now be used in real time in the customer's data network for a variety of evaluations and analyses.    

This makes it possible, for example, for quality control personnel to take action remotely in the filling process at any time and consistently reduce the reject rate.

The processor-controlled inspection systems of the INDEC 300 series are characterized by the highest reliability and simplest handling and are the first choice for many food manufacturers.