Why is it important to validate a packaging machine manufacturer?

Why is it important to validate a packaging machine even if it is at the manufacturer? Because without a doubt, this test will give assurance to the industry that the machine will work!

In the universe of packaging machine manufacturers in the country , the FAT (Factoring Acceptance Test) process is widely used, or in Portuguese to better understand, we also call TAF (Factory Acceptance Test), a very important process for the approval of a machine, even before shipping to the customer, and there it also needs validation, a process known as SAT. We'll talk about the SAT in an upcoming article, because for this FAT or TAF topic, we have a lot to cover.

This validation process should be paramount in all stages of buying and selling a packaging machine, that is, it is part of the process and needs to be done.

These final tests carried out on the packaging machine will validate its functionality and its total delivery of what has been proposed, as it will give confirmation that the packaging machine will really have the desired performance. The center of importance of the delivery of a machine is to validate that when it is delivered to the industry that purchased it, it will operate correctly.

Having this predictability of possible failures before the release and delivery of a packaging machine is extremely important, because before shipment the manufacturer will have time to correct failures.

Before we have a FAT process, the packaging machines are manufactured, parameterized and tested following the customer's requirements. All these phases need to be managed by the manufacturers in a way that ensures the functionality of the equipment.

It is up to the other side of this scenario to also cooperate, that is, to ensure the functionality of the equipment, the tests also need customer engagement, which must fulfill its obligations regarding the sending of inputs for validation tests, such as bottles, boxes, cartridges, tapes, various inputs, among others, that is, the tests must be based on the reality of the production that the packaging machine will be inserted, therefore, these validation processes are carried out 4 Hands.

* Hint! As a way to ensure the proper functioning of the packaging machine, carrying out the tests and validating all the processes is fundamental, so each manufacturer must have or create their own procedures that guarantee an assertive and positive delivery, that guarantees the delivery of a machine that works and that gives the results presented in the initial proposal.

Therefore, it is necessary to have more than one approval process during the entire production of this packaging machine. It is important to have step-by-step alignment documents, transparent schedules that put the reality to customers, ways to carry out the double conference, such as a Double Check, in short, there are numerous ways to carry out a delivery with quality and a machine that works.

Another important point that should be mentioned here, all validation tests before delivery carried out by FAT, will not be able to guarantee the proper functioning of the packaging machine in the customer's industrial plant, as there are several factors that have not been tested, such as: ambient temperature, compressed air, energy, supply process time by the processes before or after the machine, inputs different from other products that were not considered. For this reason, to avoid these counter times, it is valid to carry out the tests in the most real way possible, if they do not succeed, let's leave these assessments for the next process, the SAT.

Here at ÉLITER Packaging Machinery, we attach great importance to this FAT process, because we have as an FAT procedure, validate the packaging machine before shipment. We learn a lot in each FAT, because “it is by making mistakes that we learn”, failures strengthen us, empower us and teach us that we are capable of being better and it is amazing how minds together can compose a good process. Many of our clients participate in each FAT process, engage like us to make it all work! and work correctly and effectively.