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.
