"I can see something which you cannot see" - those who do not believe this are not familiar with the high-performance HEUFT solutions for foreign object inspection in food and should secure their place on the free seminar of the same name in Burgbrohl now. The food sector will become the focus of attention on Wednesday 22 October 2008, following the successful start to the HEUFT TeKnowledge series of events, with the subject product safety during the drinks filling process: neutral, outside experts, satisfied users and competent specialists from HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK will present new methods for increasing food safety by means of a precise foreign object detection.

HEUFT not only offers groundbreaking products. HEUFT provides integral solutions. The start of the new HEUFT TeKnowledge series of seminars proved this impressively. Renowned outside experts and specialists from HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH provided the participants with carefully targeted practical knowledge for increased product safety around the filler based on a valuable legal background and the presentation of real devices.

A nostalgic design, the distinctive noise when opening and the practical reclosability feature: swing top bottles are enjoying increasing popularity. Detecting them in a crate and clearly assigning them to one's own production bottles present standard returned empties inspectors with immense problems. HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH has developed a device with the HEUFT LGX which can reliably identify swing top bottles therefore not only guaranteeing that the containers supplied are of the correct brand but also that downstream machines are protected.

Information regarding the current legal situation for technicians and extensive practical knowledge on the subject of product safety relating to the filler is free at HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH on 16 September. Two renowned experts Professor Udo Bühler and Jean Titze a qualified engineer will provide information regarding legal traps in the bottling hall during a seminar day for brewers and bottlers. HEUFT will demonstrate how to safeguard the quality of freshly filled drinks with lasting effect in practice by means of informative product presentations.

Fill level detection and container laning - this also functions in an "explosive atmosphere" with immediate effect: HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH has developed a device variant which fulfils the ATEX criteria for use in potentially explosive areas. The HEUFT VX for ATEX operates in the aerosol and spirits industry just as safely as in other filling sections where a dangerous mixture of air and gas can form.

It has set new standards in close co-operation with HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH: the Weihenstephan Science Centre (Wissenschaftszentrums Weihenstephan - WZW) of the Technical University of Munich has revolutionised the acquisition of production data (PDA) with the Weihenstephan standards, which were co-developed with the HEUFT company, therefore contributing to the increase in the productivity and profitability of drinks filling lines. 40 students from the brewing and drinks technology course of studies at the WZW were now able to see for themselves during their visit to Burgbrohl that the HEUFT plug and play solutions played a leading role in this respect.

It is no longer a secret that bottles which burst during the filling process can contaminate other containers with flying pieces of glass. Total bursts are reliably detected. However this is not always the case if only individual parts are burst away.

Successful entrance: numerous interested parties from all over the world convinced themselves, at the HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH stand at the interpack 2008 exhibition, of the company's innovative solutions as regards product safety. The devices, presented at the Duesseldorf Exhibition Centre, for completely inspecting filled and unfilled containers as well as checking the tightness and quality of plastic and carton packages met with great interest.

"Product safety" is the main topic at the HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH exhibition stand (C38) in Hall 11 at the interpack 2008 exhibition. At the end of April the leading manufacturer of efficient products for quality control in the drinks industry will present a selection of its convincing solutions at the world's largest exhibition for packaging, innovations and processes in Duesseldorf, Germany.

It is sometimes difficult for machines: facts which are simple for humans have to be examined and verified by them repeatedly at first. Thus containers which are similar can be differentiated simply and clearly by humans but conventional inspectors can only examine certain features such as shape and colour. However HEUFT uses fuzzy logic in order to obtain the correct overall result from the individual results.