Uniformity guaranteed: Sidel launches smart in-line bottle blowing control system

IntelliADJUST works within a “closed loop” system using interferometric sensor technology. The technology ensures perfect material distribution, resulting in high production uniformity for PET bottles, including those made from rPET.

With four interferometric sensors based on reflected infrared light, IntelliADJUST takes high-precision wall thickness measurements at the most representative points of each bottle.

Four sensors, located at the bottle transfer wheel, can be adjusted across three axes (X, Y, and Z).

All parameters are directly integrated into the machine settings for each stock keeping unit recipe.

This calibration-free system allows immediate start-up after changeovers by automatically adapting sensor positioning and processes according to each recipe. Its high accuracy reduces the need for additional manual laboratory controls.

IntelliADJUST can operate at speeds of up to 900,000 bottles per hour.

The addition of Sidel’s Evo-ON software suite offers aggregation of equipment data and dynamic analytics features to deploy historical and 24/7 real-time analysis, creating a fully smart line system.