Automated quality control for beverage packaging
Streamline beverage quality control with 24/7 automated analysis, ensuring real-time detection and correction of deviations directly on your production line while maintaining optimal productivity.
Performs Real-Time Beverage Quality Analysis
The ALAB 5000 from Anton Paar offers a fully automated solution for comprehensive quality control in the beverage industry. This specialized system seamlessly integrates real-time, at-line measurement capabilities, ensuring consistent production quality without downtime. The ALAB 5000 excels in testing and measuring a wide range of beverages, including beer, wine, soft drinks, and sake, by analyzing vital physical and chemical parameters.
Designed to withstand demanding production environments, it offers robust housing that maintains optimal conditions through air conditioning and a dry air supply. The ALAB 5000 Analytic and Torque models can be customized to fit existing or new production lines, offering a universal adapter for varying bottle sizes and material types. Its automated sample preparation eliminates errors, ensuring high repeatability and precision. The system achieves significant throughput with fast measurement times—eight minutes for Analytic and 30 seconds for Torque—allowing your team to address potential deviations immediately, thereby reducing costs and waste.
Equipped to measure parameters like density, alcohol content, CO2 concentration, and more, the ALAB 5000 supports various applications in breweries, wineries, and beverage plants. Its engineering is backed by Anton Paar’s decades-long expertise in analytical measurement systems, guaranteeing reliable support and service for continuous operation.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with 24/7 operation and real-time analysis.
- Minimizes labor involvement by eliminating manual sample preparation and potential errors.
- Supports diverse beverage production needs with customizable analysis options.
- Ensures precise quality control with highly reproducible measurement results.
- Increases operational flexibility with integration into existing or new production lines.
- Applications
- Packaged beverages,Water,Wine,Sake,Alcoholic beverages,Non-alcoholic beverages,Soft drinks,Beer
- End products
- Mineral water,Club soda,Junmai sake,Chardonnay,Lager,Cola,Bottled iced tea,Vodka
- Steps before
- Filling,Capping
- Steps after
- Quality Control,Packing
- Input ingredients
- beer,wine,soft drinks,water,sake,glass bottles,aluminum bottles,PET bottles,aluminum cans
- Output ingredients
- quality control measurements,physical parameters,chemical parameters,density measurements,alcohol concentration,extract levels,oxygen levels,CO2 levels,turbidity levels,pH value,torque measurements for twist-off caps
- Market info
- Anton Paar is known for its precision measurement and analysis technology, specializing in high-quality laboratory instruments and process measurement systems, particularly in rheometry, density measurement, and material characterization, earning a strong reputation for innovation and reliability.
- Measuring range
- Trace range sensor
- Wide range sensor
- 0 hPa to 1000 hPa
- Accuracy
- ± 8 ppb or ± 6%,whichever is higher
- ± 25 ppb or ± 6%,whichever is higher for TPO
- Automation
- Fully automated,24/7 operation
- Density
- 0 g/cm³ to 3 g/cm³
- CO2 concentration
- 0 Vol. to 5.5 Vol. at 35 °C,0 Vol. to 10 Vol. at < 10 °C
- Temperature range
- 0 °C to 40°C (32 °F to 104 °F) for non-frozen samples
- Power supply
- AC 200 V to 240 V
- 45 Hz to 66 Hz,max. 3.6 kW
- Environment conditions
- 2 °C to 49 °C
- 0 % - 90 % relative humidity (not condensing)
- Pressure
- 5 bar to 6.2 bar abs.
- Typical measurement time
- 8 min for Analytic,30 s for Torque
- Dimensions
- TPO housing
- PBA housing
- 560 mm x 950 mm x 2110 mm
- Weight
- Approx. 670 kg (1477 lbs) for TPO housing
- Approx. 230 kg (507 lbs) for PBA housing
- Altitude
- Max. 2000 m (max. 6560 ft)
- Display
- 19" Multi-Touch Industrial-PC 1920 px x 1080 px
- Compressed Air Usage
- 5.5 bar to 11 bar abs.,oil-free
- Working Mechanism
- Automated,real-time monitoring
- Integrated Steps
- Sample preparation,measurement,cleaning
- Automation Level
- Fully automated,24/7 operation
- Batch vs. Continuous Operation
- At-line continuous
- Cleaning Method
- Automated cleaning,maintenance
- Changeover Time
- Quick response to deviations
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- 1750 mm x 880 mm x 2430 mm
- Weight TPO housing
- Approx. 670 kg (1477 lbs)
- Weight PBA housing
- Approx. 230 kg (507 lbs)
- Universal adapter for closure diameters
- 25 mm to 40 mm
- Package diameter
- 55 mm to 95 mm
- Package height
- 80 mm to 300 mm
- Package volume
- 150 ml to 2,000 ml
- Control panel type
- 19" Multi-Touch Industrial PC
- Integration possibilities
- Seamless integration with existing filling lines or stand-alone operation
- Display
- Touchscreen
- Communication interfaces
- 2 x USB,Ethernet
- Air conditioning and dry air supply
- Yes
- Universal adapter for closure diameters
- 25 mm to 40 mm
- Protective features
- Housing and enclosed cabinets