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On a supplement bottling line, the label and the lot code are the first things a customer or an auditor reads.
JM Automated Solutions builds camera inspection stations for dietary supplement and nutraceutical bottling and packaging lines. A station checks each bottle for the wrong label, a missing or misprinted lot and expiry code, a missing neck band, a cocked or missing cap, a missing desiccant and a low fill, rejects it, and logs the image with the lot. Based in Carlsbad, we work on supplement lines across North County San Diego, San Diego County and Southern California. Vision inspection supports your quality program; it does not replace FDA-mandated testing.
On the line
The label barcode and the printed text are read and checked against the SKU on every bottle. A label from the last run, or a label for a different count or flavor, stops at the reject.
Where this fits: Label verification station · Barcode station
OCR reads the lot and expiry code on the label, the bottle or the carton and matches it to the batch. A missing, smeared or wrong code is rejected with its image.
Where this fits: Barcode reading and OCR
The station checks that the neck band or shrink band is there and seated. The induction liner is checked before the cap goes on, where the camera can see it.
Where this fits: Single-camera station
Cap presence, height and tilt are checked on every bottle after the capper, so a loose cap is caught before the case packer.
Where this fits: Three-camera station
The station confirms the desiccant and the cotton are present, and only once, before the cap. The same check runs on pharmaceutical bottles.
Where this fits: Single-camera station
Fill level in clear bottles is checked at line speed. For tablet and capsule counts, tell us how your counter works and we check whether a camera can confirm the count at that step.
Where this fits: Fill-level station
Every reject is logged with the image, the reason and the time. The records are designed for use in a 21 CFR Part 111 quality program and support the batch record review your team runs.
Where this fits: Traceability
Pharmaceutical lines · What the station records on each line
Inspection jobs
Station
The label, its barcode and its printed text checked against the SKU on every bottle.
See the station →Solution
OCR reads printed lot and expiry codes and matches them to the batch.
See code reading →Solution
Every reject logged with the image, the reason, and the time, in a searchable record.
See traceability →Service
Better results from the camera already on the bottling line, or a replacement for an end-of-life model.
See upgrades →Service area
Based in Carlsbad, on site across North County San Diego and Southern California.
See where we work →Tool
Work out the GS1 check digit for a GTIN before it goes on a label.
Open the tool →Label verification at the labeler exit walks through checking each label as it leaves the labeler, from the camera and the lighting to the record that goes with each reject.
For the basics behind any station, read How machine vision works.
Next
Tell us the bottle, the label and what is getting through. If a camera is already on the line and the log cannot show why, start there.
Other lines: Food · Beverage · Packaging · Pharmaceutical · Medical devices
