Leak testing of flexible packaging is crucial to guarantee the quality of the product within and ensure consumer safety. An efficient leak testing process helps you to identify and minimise defective products, which when left undetected, can affect customer experience resulting in complaints and damage your reputation.
Given the importance of leak testing to your business, it makes complete sense to seriously consider to invest in high quality testing equipment.
Here are some reasons why.
Improved Process Efficiency
Modern leak testing machines offer more accurate results than manual method. The traditional method involves the immersion of a package underwater to test leaks. The package is considered defective when the manual test reveals bubbles escaping the package. Although it allows the user to visually see the location of the leaks, this method is considered outdated and not attractive to the industry.
One major disadvantage of the manual method is that the package will be damaged upon being tested and should be discarded. This method also highly reliable of manual observation and therefore, there is an increased risk of wrong observation especially when the same operator is tasked with the job for long hours.
A modern leak detector such as the 6086b Flexible Package Integrity Tester from Sealtick is specifically designed to address the afore-mentioned issues. This device is a non-destructive tester, which means that it does not pose any risk of damage to the package or the contents inside.
The efficient design of the test chamber ensures that packages passing the leak test are dry, clean and in their original good condition. The testing machine can send these packages back to the production line. Further, the testing chamber can be rearranged to accommodate multiple packages simultaneously.
A Sealtick tester can detect leaks as tiny as 10 microns in diameter, in smaller packages. It can detect up to 20-micron-diameter holes in larger packages. The machine displays results in a Pass/ Fail light format. This automated test offers more reliable results than the manual bubble-testing method.
Better and Faster Testing
In the case of manual testing, an operator might often find it extremely difficult to simultaneously observe the leaks and record data. With the new flexible package tester from Sealtick, results can be obtained under 20 seconds. Operators only need to put the package inside the testing chamber, initiate the test, and the device will provide the results indicating whether it passes or fails the testing requirement.
Significant Cost Savings
Our leak detection testers lead to direct and indirect cost savings in several ways:
- Improved reliability by eliminating human error
- Faster testing, means more packages can be tested within the same period of time
- Packages can be returned to the production line should they come up in good conditions. The factory can minimise wastes and loss of products.
- Capability to provide reports for traceability. This gives the operators capability to quickly identify the problematic batch and carry out the necessary action to correct the process to minimise losses.
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