Empty bottle inspector with deep learning
Ensure that every beverage container in your production line is pristine with cutting-edge inspection technology that identifies even the smallest defects and contaminants, optimizing your quality control process with remarkable precision.

Inspects and Sorts Empty Bottles and Cans
The Linatronic Empty Bottle Inspector from Krones is specifically engineered for meticulous inspection and sorting of glass, PET, and aluminium containers in beverage and packaging industries. Utilizing cutting-edge Deep Learning technology, it ensures extraordinary precision with the lowest false rejection rate of just 0.3%. This inspector thrives in high-speed, continuous operations, integrating seamlessly into your bottling lines with automated adjustment features that facilitate quick type changeovers. The modular design includes sophisticated detection systems for foreign-bottle and residual caustic inspection, all while maintaining energy efficiency with advanced PM drives. Linatronic’s hygienic construction minimizes contamination risks, making it a reliable choice for maintaining high-quality standards in your production line. Customizable features like Ecopush rejection and real-time GRS remote service support optimize its operational reliability and ease of maintenance, ensuring a resilient, low total cost of ownership solution for your inspection needs.
Benefits
- Ensures product quality by detecting even minute defects and contaminants.
- Minimizes operational costs with an exceptionally low false rejection rate of 0.3%.
- Enhances production flexibility with rapid automatic container type adjustment.
- Decreases energy usage through energy-efficient drive and lighting systems.
- Facilitates continuous operation with robust remote support and maintenance services.
- Applications
- Packaging technology,Bottling lines,Pet containers,Beverage bottles,Glass containers,Empty containers,Aluminium containers
- End products
- Beer bottles,Empty glass containers,Spirit bottles,Plant-based milk bottles,Water bottles,Empty pet containers,Empty aluminium cans,Canned beverages,Soft drink bottles,Juice bottles,Milk bottles
- Steps before
- Bottle washing,Container sorting
- Steps after
- Filling,Capping,Labeling,Packing
- Input ingredients
- empty glass bottles,empty PET containers,empty aluminium containers
- Output ingredients
- inspected glass bottles,inspected PET containers,inspected aluminium containers,fault-free containers
- Market info
- Krones is renowned for its expertise in manufacturing beverage and liquid food processing and packaging equipment, offering comprehensive solutions that include filling, packaging technology, and processing systems, and is reputed for innovation and quality in the industry.
- Inspection Accuracy
- Highest possible inspection accuracy
- False Rejection Rate
- 0.3 percent
- Container Type
- Glass / PET / Aluminium
- Detection Type
- Infrared / High-frequency / Visual
- Automation
- Deep Learning Neural Network
- Sorting Capability
- Applied ceramic label (ACL) detection and sorting
- Side-wall Inspection
- 4,3,2,1 Side-wall inspection module options
- Commissioning Time
- Shortest commissioning time
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy-efficient PM drives / Electrically operated rejection units
- Residual Detection
- Infrared and High-frequency residual liquid detection
- Automation level
- Neural network with Deep Learning
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient PM drives
- Changeover time
- Quick type change-over
- Cleaning method
- Hygienic construction
- False rejection rate
- 0.3 percent
- Container Compatibility
- Glass,PET,Aluminium
- Inspection Accuracy
- High
- Compact footprint
- Details not provided
- Control panel type
- Camera-based inspection
- Control panel type
- HMI with touchscreen
- Integration possibilities
- GRS remote service platform
- Inspection modules
- Multitasking with various detection capabilities
- Camera configuration
- Auto adjustable positions
- Rejection units
- Ecopush system
- Surface material
- Resilient to glass,non-absorbent