At Sensory Analytics, we believe the best way to serve our customers and offer the best solutions to meet their challenges is to collaborate with key industry leaders and strategic partners. These strategic partners bring their areas of expertise, innovative equipment, and unique industry insights to help address the production and coating process control needs of the important global customers we all serve.
The Sensory team is honored to work with such high-performing and experienced global leaders that are using the exclusive impacts of highly precise SpecMetrix measurement system data to advance coating process control, improve product quality, and deliver process digitalization for the benefit of manufacturing customers and industries.
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Testing Facilities
The Lab – Powered by BevSource
The Lab is the first-of-its-kind facility, providing beverage creators a dedicated resource for pilot runs and quality assurance testing. The Lab was launched by BevSource, one of the leading providers of beverage development and operations solutions in North America, as a place for beverage ideas to be tested, perfected, and validated on a smaller scale before moving to full production. The most unique feature of the facility is the adjacent, public-facing taproom where brand owners can put their product anonymously on tap and get unbiased consumer feedback.
The Lab is the first third-party beverage container quality laboratory and testing facility to be awarded “SpecMetrix Certified” status. This certification acknowledges the company’s demonstrated commitment to ensuring all in the beverage industry can have access to the highest level of film weight quality and can liner testing procedures.
Briem & Lombard Engineering, Inc.
Briem & Lombard Engineering, Inc., has performed beverage container analysis services for over 25 years. We have a fully equipped, ISO 17025-certified, metallurgical laboratory supported by licensed metallurgical engineers. Our services include:
- Liner thickness measurement using a SpecMetrix ACS-Flex system which will measure liner and over-varnish thickness of the sidewalls, shoulder, end, dome, chime, reverse sidewall, and moat.
- Can and seam leaker root cause analysis
- Can and Lid dimensions
- Seam cross sections with dimensions
- Beverage/can corrosion compatibility testing using pack-testing procedures
- Enamel Rating
- Thin wall/Thick Wall measurements
- Dome profile tracing
- Dome Reversal
- Axial Load
- Competitive Can Surveys
- Dissolved Oxygen (DO/TPO) measurement
- Beverage analysis including aluminum pickup, chlorides, copper, etc.
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
BetterCans™
BetterCans™ is an industry leader in technical support and solutions for the metal packaging industry. BetterCans™ has been assisting the metal packaging industry, specifically two-piece aluminum cans and ends for RTD beverages, from its head office in Dublin, Ohio, USA.
BetterCans™ was formed to support new-to-the-industry and existing canmakers to set up, startup, stabilize, operate and improve their canmaking and endmaking production processes, so customers can reach world-class performance in a steady state. Our technical services are built for the global market where all types of can formats and end designs are produced.
BetterCans™ and SpecMetrix® partnered in 2024 to provide the canmaking industry meaningful improvements on coating application processes based on reliable and accurate data obtained with SpecMetrix technology. At BetterCans™ our goal is to take SpecMetrix ACS systems to the next level in every canmaking plant. With access to accurate coating data measurements (external and internal coatings), there are enormous opportunities for improvements on the application and conversion costs in every single canmaking operation.
BetterCans™ performs technical services in the following areas: Startup and stabilization of can making lines; line changeovers to different can formats and sizes; classroom and hands-on training; process audits with emphasis on safety, operations, quality, maintenance, knowledge and troubleshooting practices; implementation of best-in-class manufacturing practices; process improvement to accomplish fundamental KPIs; analysis and resolution of complex issues on the production floor; and preventive and corrective maintenance activities from planification to execution.
OEMs and Strategic Alliances
Koenig & Bauer MetalPrint
Koenig & Bauer-MetalPrint, a member of the Koenig & Bauer Group, is the world leader for printing, coating, and drying solutions in the area of metal decorating. Koenig & Bauer MetalPrint supplies complete printing and coating lines in the most varied configurations – specifically for printing or coating or for a combination of the two, with UV drying systems or thermal drying ovens with integrated exhaust air purification, for decoration with 2 to 10 colors. Each solution is tailored to the customer’s requirements.
Since 2014, a variety of Koenig & Bauer-MetalPrint coating lines have been equipped with the market-leading flat sheet coating thickness and film weight measurement systems from SpecMetrix.
Versatile Technology
Versatile Technology is an industry leader in advanced measurement systems for the metal packaging industry. For over 30 years, Versatile has been designing and manufacturing its gauges in Melbourne, Australia, and shipping them all over the globe. Their equipment is built for the global market where all types of cans and ends are produced. Versatile Technology and SpecMetrix partnered in 2017, to provide the can making industry an automated solution to measure coating thickness/film distribution with a high level of sampling and throughput.
The ACS-T34 Automatic Coating Thickness Gauge is the world leader for measuring internal, external, and over-varnish coatings on beverage cans. The gauge has many other features such as VT’s very own Dark Night camera system for rim coat presence and percentage check, multi-size capability, and programmable measurement bands meaning you can measure anywhere you want, anytime.
AMETEK Surface Vision
AMETEK Surface Vision, part of the Process and Analytical Instruments Division of AMETEK, Inc., is the world leader in automated online surface inspection solutions. Its broad product range is optimized for the monitoring and inspection of webs and surfaces, and for process surveillance applications. The SmartView® and SmartAdvisor® product lines deliver robust, flexible solutions to continuous production processes across a number of industries, with hundreds of customers and more than 2,500 installations worldwide. Its systems have become vital to increasing efficiency, streamlining operations, improving product quality and reducing costs and waste in industrial processes.
Collaborate with us!
If you are interested in becoming one of our industry partners, please contact us to share how Sensory Analytics’s exclusive SpecMetrix® coating thickness measurement solutions are a good fit for a collaboration with your organization.
