Compliance with standards 16379 SIC, NTC 2167 and derivatives of OIML R87

Several manufacturing industries are required to comply with tight legal regulations on net content control.

For example:

  • In Colombia the norm NTC2167, for the food industries, with packaged products.
  • Resolution 16379 of 2003 regulates the metrological control of product content in prepackages.
  • International OIML recommendation R 87, concerning quantities in prepackaged products.
  • In the United States, there is a guide for the control of net weight of goods sold: NIST Handbook 133, “Checking the Net Contents of Package Goods”

Almost all countries have regulations in this regard and the penalties for non-compliance are severe. Non-compliance means that the customer is not paid what he paid.

The most common method used to avoid penalties for non-compliance is extremely expensive; overfilling. Overfilling reduces business profits straight away.

Additionally, manual sampling methods are slow, inaccurate and with minimal traceability. This results in high risks for sanctions, substantial waste, excessive time invested in procedures, audits and possibly negative effects for the brand.

NetWeigh-IoT in a matter of weeks delivers a complete return on your investment. It can manage from a single station, up to hundreds of them, distributed in several plants.

Using statistical sampling plans, guides the process step by step, issuing recommendations, warnings, registering all activity and at the same time enabling remote monitoring, for the easy management of activities between departments and with other organizations in the supply chain.

The information and data captured is used to make improvement plans, identify priorities for cost reduction, evaluate waste trends and forecasts, compare differences in results between machines, work teams, products and to speed up audit processes.

All its functionality operates in real time and is fully integrated with the ImecTools-IoT platform.

Reduce the waste of raw materials by overfilling

Normally NetWeigh reduces in more than 20% the costs associated with the waste of raw materials, caused by the natural variability of the processes and the need to overfill the containers to comply with the strict regulations.

Additionally, it frees staff time in auditing, control, administration, and report generation activities, standardizing in a sustainable manner the statistical control in filling and packing lines, real-time data improves decision making and substantially reduces the risks of penalties.

Our experience shows that frequently, many companies are unaware of the real magnitude of the cost of waste in packaging processes. It is not unusual to find NetWeigh, which was wasting up to 5 times more than the company had calculated.

Qualities of NetWeigh

STANDARDIZED PROCESS

Achieving a standard process leads to significant savings on wasted material reduction.

RISK REDUCTION

Substantially reduces the risk of sanctions for non-compliance of industry’s standard laws.

LOWER COSTS

Reduces operational costs associated with data-collecting time, audits, administrative procedures, and manufacture reprocessing.

BETTER DECISIONS

A good, clean data capturing process can be easily transform in useful information in order to make the best decision at the perfect time.

NetWeigh:

  • Designed for industrial environments.
  • Integrated with weighing scales, checkweighers, unit counters, and others.
  • Guides step by step on when and how perform every sample.
  • Automatically adjusts to machine stops.
  • Displays trends and suggestions to decrease waste.
  • Generates alerts, visibility throughout departments.
  • Calculates waste.
  • Allows to define acceptance rules.
  • Can apply multiple rules at once during production.
  • Is tolerant to network failures.
  • Architected for industrial environments, is able to centralize the captured information for hundreds of locations with no need of a dedicated industrial network.
  • Return on investment comes quickly, usually in a matter of weeks.

TOWARDS THE INDUSTRY 4.0

Netweigh can use the IoT platform of Microsoft to connect to powerful analytical tools of Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, and Power BI, which allows for remote monitoring of your company’s processes and performance from almost any type of computing device.

SIMPLE MANAGEMENT

Permanent monitoring and traceability through centralized management, accessible from the browser.

Statistical reports showed graphically, facilitate the process’ analysis.

Analysis of waste and production patterns.

TECH SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE

Low infrastructure and maintenance cost, due to its innovative structure.

Stations updating and scaling made easy, without creating hardware dependency.

Fast stations’ reinstallation, and version upgrading with automatic updating through every station.

GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED METHODOLOGIES.

Utiliza avanzadas técnicas derivadas de Control Estadístico de Procesos y Six Sigma sin necesidad de que las líneas operativas sean entrenados en estos conceptos.
Netweigh uses advanced techniques, derived from Statistical Processes Control and Six Sigma, without the need of expensive and long training in the tool or theory.

More tools

NetWeigh is part of the ImecTools Suite developed by Imectech, a set of products and tools that have been carefully designed to provide advanced real-time statistical analysis in a simple way so that everyone, from machine operators, to quality control supervisors and factory managers, can make better, more informed decisions regarding the process that’s being carried out.

Learn more about the other ImecTools within the Suite, and get what you and your business need.

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Training Services

Practical training for manufacturing Operators and Supervisors about the NTC 2016 regulation (Colombia)

Diagnostic Services

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Process Evaluations

Evaluation of sampling processes, manufacturing practices, and risk and waste levels in products.

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