Overcome the product inspection and quality control challenges that face manufacturers of cosmetics and personal care products today. Increasingly complex production processes has led to higher pressures to get products and new innovations to market faster. METTLER TOLEDO helps manufacturers meet these production challenges while preserving product quality and maintaining compliance with industry and government regulations.
We specialize in supplying smart quality control solutions to support cosmetics and personal care manufacturers in delivering high quality products to consumers. Our systems make it easier to demonstrate due diligence and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Our advanced software features streamline the testing and auditing processes, easing the transition towards sustainable growth.
METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection systems are used to perform quality inspections on a variety cosmetics and personal care products, including lotions, creams, liquids, gels and powders. They can handle all packaging materials and shapes, including plastic bottles and tubes, glass jars, aluminum tins, and everything in between.
We offer foreign body detection with our industrial x-ray inspection and metal detection systems, completeness checks and fill level control with checkweighing or x-ray inspection, and packaging integrity checks and tamper-proof seal verification with vision inspection.
Our versatile product inspection systems are built to integrate into your current production processes for automated inline inspection or can be placed at the end of the line for any manual checking requirements. Our solutions help you meet whatever quality control challenges you face in the cosmetics and personal care manufacturing industry.
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Improperly filled cosmetics and personal care products can result in non-compliance with weights and measures regulations, dissatisfied customers, and reduced profits through unnecessary product giveaway. Product inspection systems such as inline checkweighers can monitor fill-levels and adjust fill-heads automatically, preventing product waste and reducing potential rework.
Making certain that all components are present in packaged cosmetics is an important factor in avoiding consumer complaints and returns. Checkweighing technology, as well as other product inspection technologies such as x-ray and vision inspection, offer a wealth of product handling options to securely guide products through inspection systems at high speeds to verify that each product package is complete and contains everything it should.
Foreign body contamination found in your product can do serious damage to your brand reputation, resulting in lost customers and lost profits. This type of physical contamination occurs when bits of metal, glass, plastic, or other materials are introduced during the production process. This can be through contaminated raw materials, broken or damaged equipment, or accidental introduction of contaminants by employees. With x-ray inspection and metal detection technology you can quickly identify and remove contaminated products from the production line for improved customer safety and product quality.
Image is important in the cosmetics sector, and that includes product packaging and labeling. Label-related defects and errors are a common and easily preventable source of consumer complaints and product recalls. Integrating vision inspection machines into your production process to check for correct, present, and undamaged labels on each product can help prevent products with unsatisfactory labels from entering the marketplace. By verifying critical label data and quality, vision inspection systems minimize the risk of mislabeling, supporting industry guidelines and protecting your brand. We offer a wide range of solutions that perform label quality checks on both oriented and unoriented products.
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Cosmetics and personal care manufacturers must work hard to protect the safety, quality, and appearance of their product or they risk damage to their brand image and reputation - resulting in lost trust from their customers and decreased profits.
Quality assurance in cosmetics production does more than make sure that consumers are getting the product they expect, it also:
A strong quality assurance program uses a variety of product inspection solutions to enhance quality control procedures during the manufacturing process.
A few examples of product inspection systems used in quality assurance programs for cosmetics manufacturing are:
Quality control for cosmetics and personal care products relates to the inspection of these products to make certain they meet the quality standards of the manufacturer, the retailer and the consumer. These quality control measures can be done through a variety of specialized product inspection equipment such as:
Products which fail to meet the necessary quality standards are removed from production lines and discarded or re-worked to bring them in line with quality standards.
In the cosmetics industry, compliance can mean one of several things, including compliance with industry regulations, compliance with quality control guidelines such as the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), or compliance with government regulations.
These compliance guidelines and regulations are in place to protect companies and consumers through assurances that cosmetics and personal care products on the market are safe to use, have the proper and correct information visible on product labels and packaging, the packaging is free of defects or blemishes, and that the product is free of physical contamination and chemicals which may be harmful to humans.
METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection systems can help support manufacturers of cosmetics and personal care products in achieving compliance with industry standards, governmental regulations and GMP.
Product packaging is one of the final opportunities that personal care and cosmetics manufacturers have in making their pitch to the customer. Having attractive and unblemished product packaging that stands out from the competition on store shelves can be vital to making the sale!
In addition, product packaging is used to provide important information to the customer, such as instructions for proper use and listing any potential allergens that may be contained within the ingredients.
Using product inspection equipment to check for packaging flaws, such seal inspection systems or label quality inspection systems during production can assist manufacturers of cosmetics products with their automatic checking processes.
With so many different formulas and varieties of cosmetic and personal care products, having an accurate, undamaged product label is critically important. Label inspection systems check every product to verify that the correct label is present, accurately applied, and undamaged.
There are also legal reasons for label inspection – it is important for cosmetics manufacturers to confirm that every product label has the required information present and lists all warnings about potential allergens or any ingredients with known reactivity.
Combination product inspection systems are a great space-saving method for cosmetics manufacturing environments. By combining multiple inspection technologies such as label inspection, weight and completeness control and/or contamination detection into a one system, you can establish a single quality control point on your production line that requires up to 33% less space than having multiple standalone systems.
METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection offers combination systems to incorporate label inspection verification systems with cosmetics checkweighers and metal detectors made for cosmetics, and other combination systems that provide industrial x-ray inspection or serialization and track & trace technology to the cosmetics and personal care industry.
Verification of fill levels on cosmetics products in jars, tubes, or bottles can be done using inline checkweighers, industrial x-ray inspection systems and machine vision inspection systems. The type of inspection equipment best suited for the application depends on factors such as packaging type, product type, and production environment.
METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection offers fill level verification systems to suit a wide variety of cosmetics applications, in addition to combination systems to support multiple quality control procedures.
Foreign body detection is an important part of quality control in the cosmetics industry. To protect consumer safety and brand reputation and prevent expensive fines or recalls that can result from contamination, cosmetics manufacturers use industrial x-ray inspection and metal detection systems designed for cosmetics and personal care products to identify products containing physical contaminants such as metal, plastic and other foreign materials, and remove them from the production line.
