There are countless benefits of adding a leak tester to a plastic container production line that can help businesses stay ahead of their competition — from ensuring product quality, optimizing efficiency, and saving on costly repairs to winning and retaining customers and consumers.
In this blog, we explore six ways investing in a reliable leak tester can give your business a competitive edge in today’s market, setting your company up for success in plastic container manufacturing now and in the future.
Let's dive in!
How Can a Leak Tester Offer Competitive Edge in the Industry?
1) Protect Brand Reputation and Maintain Customer Trust
Implementing a reliable leak tester into your production line can help safeguard your company’s reputation and your customer’s reputation by ensuring every packaged container is of the highest quality. It can also help brands maintain customer trust, which is hard to earn back once you unknowingly send a defective product batch.
What’s more, many brand owners require an empty plastic container manufacturer to perform leak testing on their production lines and, in some cases, have a standard hole size specification. Implementing the right leak tester, and ensuring the equipment can detect a specific hole size through capability feasibility testing, is critical to gaining and maintaining customer trust.
2) Improve Production
Along with detecting defective bottles before getting to a customer, a leak detector can also identify and isolate faulty or inefficient areas in your downstream blow molding manufacturing process.
For example, sending in faulty, rejected bottles for defect feasibility testing can help determine what type of defect is present, allowing you to troubleshoot and pinpoint adjustments you can make on your manufacturing line to help prevent future defects and create consistency in your process.
Take a deeper dive into the full benefits of feasibility testing here!
3) Minimize Maintenance Costs and Unexpected Downtime
Investing in a reliable leak testing system may seem like a big upfront expense, but this investment may save your business thousands of dollars in the long run.
Finding a leak tester that is engineered with technology built to last with timely service when you need it can ensure longevity and optimal performance of your machine, ultimately minimizing overall maintenance costs and preventing unnecessary capital loss of replacing cheap and unreliable equipment.
Like all manufacturing machinery, even with preventive maintenance and upkeep, there will come times when a leak testing system will need (and a supply chain will benefit from) maintenance updates or part replacements. This is why it’s essential to partner with an empty bottle inspection supplier who offers 24-hour support, remote diagnostics, spare parts kits, and acts as quickly as possible to get you what you need to keep production moving.
Making fast and efficient maintenance updates and part replacements can minimize unexpected downtime and ensure you never keep your customer waiting and run the risk of them choosing another manufacturer. Regular audits and training sessions will ensure all shift employees are prepared to properly test and troubleshoot bottles as needed, also minimizing unnecessary downtime.
From start-up assistance to on-site troubleshooting, maintenance, and part replacement, ALPS Inspection is your trusted leak testing equipment supplier. Click here to contact our service team to help keep your production line moving.
4) Increase Your Production Line Flexibility
Whether you produce food & beverage packaging, healthcare packaging, industrial product packaging, or serve other industry brands, the key to finding success is having the flexibility to manufacture a wide variety of plastic containers in various shapes and sizes. The last thing you want to do is turn away potential profit because your leak testing system can only accommodate a certain container size and type.
Choosing different options, such as conveyor sizes for your leak testing system, will allow your business to test a wide range of bottles, from small pharmaceutical bottles to 5-gallon water bottles, which will help to expand your market.
In addition to adapting to a range of container shapes and sizes, it's crucial your leak testing system adapts to production line speeds. ALPS Inspection utilizes advanced technology designed to keep pace with any production line speed, from slow speeds with our single-head testers to our NexGen Rotary line of equipment that can handle rapid speeds with ease.
ALPS Inspection’s engineering and service teams are always available to assist you with your evolving processes and new, sustainable packaging needs. Investing in dependable and versatile inspection machinery will benefit you, your customers, and consumers in the long run.
5) Keep Up With Environmental Sustainability
With increasing environmental awareness and regulations, more companies are trying to use less plastic in their packaging, more Post-Consumer Recycled material, or other environmentally-friendly alternatives. This may change the packaging design, requiring adjustments to how the container is inspected.
Commitment to sustainability does not have to mean sacrificing product quality. Investing in a reliable leak tester with the ability to quickly adjust rails, conveyer heights, probe heights, and readily available capability feasibility testing on newly designed bottles, can help accommodate these changes and keep up with market trends.
Looking for the best general-purpose leak tester for your production line but unsure where to start? Our blog walks you through 5 key selection factors you should consider!
6) Set Your Employees Up for Success
To attract and retain the best talent in today’s competitive market, a company must prove it’s willing to invest in the education and tools needed for employee success on the job site.
Investing in a dependable leak testing system with user-friendly controls can help employees effectively do their jobs, catch potential issues early, and even avoid employee burnout.
Automated testing features, simple guided setup feature, and an easy-to-navigate touch screen with machine adjustment logs, diagnostics, and countless PM report options are all features you should consider when selecting a leak detector and partner.
On-site training
It’s also important to take the time to thoroughly train employees, giving them insight into running a leak testing system and troubleshooting any potential issues. Handing the power over to your employees to make machine adjustments and decisions can help minimize frustration and increase employee retention.
Did you know ALPS Inspection offers on-site, comprehensive training on all our empty container inspection equipment? Learn more about our ALPS Peak Service Training program now.
Introducing QuickCheck
At ALPS Inspection, we strive to stay at the forefront of innovation, helping our customers stay ahead in today’s competitive market. We continuously invest in research and product development and are proud to offer our customers leak testing systems that satisfy expectations.
This is why we are proud to announce the QuickCheck linear leak testing system. This general-purpose leak testing machine offers a range of features and benefits while still being a cost-effective investment.
The QuickCheck is a single-head empty container leak testing system. With its intuitive, user-friendly capabilities and increased speed and efficiency, this reliable leak testing system offers everything you need to ensure product quality and improve production, helping you stay one step ahead of the competition.
Other attributes of QuickCheck include:
- Fast and simple installation
- Quick container changeover
- High- and low-speed, integrated leak testing
- Guided setup software feature
- Easy-to-navigate touchscreen with automated email reporting and so much more
- Adjustable rails, conveyer heights, and probe heights
Learn more about QuickCheck now.
We know your blow molding processes are not one-size-fits-all. If a single-head machine isn’t right for your line, check out our Product Selector tool to see our options with speeds from 2 to 1200 bottles-per-minute (BPM) depending on the bottle size.
ALPS Inspection Offers Industry-Leading, Reliable Leak Testing Systems
ALPS Inspection is one of the only organizations solely devoted to leak testing equipment. We are proud to be an industry leader, providing comprehensive leak testing solutions tailored to your production process with unparalleled technical service support.
We have dependable leak testing equipment that meets your needs, and the expertise and experience to keep you up and running at the optimal level. Adding a general-purpose leak testing machine, like the QuickCheck linear leak tester, to your production line is guaranteed to ensure product quality, keeping your customers happy.
Contact ALPS Inspection today and find out how we help you stay ahead in today’s plastic container manufacturing market.
