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Explore every stage of the modern beverage can filling line with our interactive beverage can filling process map. From can depalletizing and rinsing through to filling, seaming, pasteurizing, and palletizing, each step in the process demands precision, consistency, and quality assurance. By hovering over each stage in the diagram below, you can discover the most relevant beverage can test and measurement equipment used to maintain performance, compliance, and product integrity throughout production.
At Industrial Physics, we specialize in packaging and material test and measurement solutions designed specifically for quality, R&D, and operations experts across the beverage can filling industry. Our instruments help fillers optimize efficiency, reduce waste, and ensure every can meets strict quality standards. Whether you are monitoring seam integrity, testing internal pressure, inspecting fill levels, or verifying seal integrity, our technologies provide reliable data across the entire filling line.
This interactive guide highlights how beverage can test and measurement equipment plays a critical role at each stage, from depalletizers and rinsers to fillers, seamers, and pasteurizers, helping fillers achieve consistent, high-quality output at scale.
Discover how Industrial Physics supports smarter beverage can filling with a dedicated range of test and measurement solutions for the sector.
The AUTO-XTS is the ideal double seam inspection solution for beverage or metal packaging testing. It offers highly accurate seam thickness, countersink depth, seam height and body hook testing.
The Clearance Gauge: Double Seamer Setup and Adjustment System improves seam integrity and consistency, increases uptime and quickens changeovers.
High Resolution Automatic Roll and Chuck Tooling Profile Scanner
The Steinfurth Past Control equipment for pasteurization gives you precise pasteurization monitoring results, whether you’re making canned or bottled products.
The CMC-KUHNKE Beverage Seam Saw AGS-2300 safely and precisely cuts double seams for 200-300 body range cans and 200-211 ends, producing clean samples for reliable double seam inspection.
Automatic twin blade seam saw for beverage cans
The CMC-KUHNKE Seam Stripper 1000 is an affordable and robust can seam stripper for teardown analysis. It’s a fast, efficient and a safe alternative to manual double seam strippers.
Double Seam Inspection: Seam Thickness, Seam Height, Countersink Depth, Seam Gap, Body Hook, Cover Hook, Overlap
Our world-class SEAMetal double seam inspection system is the most flexible beverage and beer can testing solution available on the market.
The portable version of our world-class SEAMetal double seam inspection system is the most flexible can testing solution available on the market.
The CMC-KUHNKE Portable Beverage Can Saw PCS-1211 cuts open beverage can seams for visual inspection, giving quality teams a lightweight, low-maintenance tool for confined-space use with a safety control button that must be pressed to start the blades.
The CMC-KUHNKE QbyV SEAMetal LT is an affordable double seam inspection system for craft brewers and mobile canners, using optical technology and SEAM Doctor software to catch seam defects before they reach the shelf.
The Video Seam Imager is new high-resolution USB3 camera that allows you to conduct optical seam analysis for food and beverage cans.
The Torus Z543 Benchtop Manual Universal Height Gauge is suitable for trimmed or finished cans, and plastic or aluminum bottles and it features a reliable dial test indicator (DTI), selectable between 10µm and 1µm so you can enjoy complete confidence in your object height measurements.
The Countersink Depth Gauge is a versatile and precise tool designed for measuring the countersink depth and profile of food and beverage cans.
The Z548 Handheld Manual Seam Thickness Gauge is a reliable tool for measuring seam thickness on food and beverage cans. Designed for precision and efficiency, it offers automated data transfer and a pre-configured anvil angle for versatile applications.
The Steinfurth DIGI VACU is a portable, digital vacuum tester that pierces food and beverage packaging to measure pressure directly, so you can check vacuum or overpressure levels against your internal specification before a package reaches the shelf.
The semi-automatic CMC-KUHNKE Z310 Combination Seam Gauge provides precise seam thickness and countersink depth measurements for both food and beverage cans, including a 360° scan around the can.
If you work with aluminum or steel cans, the SEAMscan XTS III will increase the accuracy of your double seam inspection testing, reduce spoilage, and save you time and money.
The CMC-KUHNKE Z315 Beverage Filled Can Gauge is the ideal quality control tool for measuring the height, countersink depth and seam thickness of beverage cans.
The SEAM360 is the ultimate vision-based double seam inspection gauge for both two and three piece beverage cans.
Offering reliable CO₂ monitoring in beverage bottles and cans, the Steinfurth Semi-Automatic CO₂ Tester CDA MK-6 is easy to use, has dynamic sample preparation and takes high-precision measurements.
The Steinfurth CDA-Check Bottle validates your CDA MK-6 CO₂ analyzer's measuring head, comparing pressure and temperature readings side by side so you can confirm your analyzer is performing to specification.
The Steinfurth Pressure Tester range lets you check internal pressure on cans and bottles directly on the line, with analog or digital models covering carbonated and nitrogen-dosed non-carbonated beverages, so under- or over-pressurized packages don't reach the shelf.
Browse through our full range of instruments available for metal packaging here.
The team at Industrial Physics identified the perfect solution for our testing requirements and this has been a huge benefit for us.” Ori Salan, Caniel
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