1. Draw the diagram of the bottling line operation including the inspections of the bottles and describe the main functions of bottles inspection machine. [20]
2. a) Describe the term AQL, Acceptable Quality Levels [2]
b) You are the Packaging Manager at the bottling line 1. The line is running at a nominal speed of 30,000 bottles/hour and line efficiency is 80%. Packaging control is carried out every 2nd hour and performed on 2 crates of each 24 bottles.
Packaging Specifications:
Under filled bottle AQL= 0.01
Unacceptable label error AQL= 0.4
Control at 8:00 is ok
Control at 10:00, 2 bottles are found to be under filled and 6 bottles have unacceptable label error.
How do you react? [8]
See appendix 1&2
c) Explain how the double seam is formed during the packaging of beverage can and outline with diagrams, the typical faults that can occur. [10]