Fill quantities of packaged food and beverages are governed by strict regulations. To comply with requirements, fill quantities must not be below the specified minimum value. Products filled lower than the defined minimum may result in disappointed consumers or a company’s damaged reputation. Fill quantities must not be below a specified minimum value to comply with requirements. To ensure fill quantities remain within required tolerances and optimize quantities to maintain profit margins, statistical quality control (SQC) is recommended for laboratory weighing in the food industry:
- As part of the production process,
- As a final quality control check, and
- During random checks by quality control personnel.
METTLER TOLEDO's XPR precision balance and XPR-SQC balance software offer a standalone tool for the monitoring, control and optimization of filling processes in the food and beverage industry for laboratory weighing. The solution is straightforward to implement and cost-effective. On-screen guidance and automatic procedures make it easy for laboratory weighing technicians and production line workers alike to use. Graphical results show instantly if a weighing result is out of tolerance, and a rolling average provides an indication of fill quantities for the sample series as a whole.
