We hacked your check weigher. Did you realize you are putting light products into the market and risking a regulatory violation?

Of course, we didn’t really hack your check weigher, but we might as well have. 

Data from over 250 different food & beverage and personal care operations with whom we’ve worked shows almost all of them having overpack rates twice what their equipment would enable while still running the risk of underweight violations. Net weight control programs are failing to mitigate risk and control costs. How can this be, you ask?

Like all regulated processes, net weight control is incredibly complicated

For example, the Department of Weights and Measures guideline of your legal requirements in the United States, the NIST 133 Handbook, is 272 pages long! And it is revised every year. And if you operate in multiple jurisdictions, each country’s regulations are different.

Net weight control spans multiple disciplines: Legal, Quality, Operations, Maintenance and Engineering

To get the program right, your team needs the ability to understand complex legal language, determine which regulations and practices apply to your processes, and deep competence in statistical process control. When you layer on top of this: statistically validating your process capability, developing your operational weight correction protocols and maintaining your equipment for minimal process variability, it’s no wonder many programs are falling short of the ideal.