Not Too Little, Not Too Much. Just Right.

CheckWeigh was actually born from the failure to sell QIS to someone - really. There, I’ve said it. We had a prospect who was looking at QIS and told us they liked it but the real problem they had to solve was modernizing or automating their systems to ensure they were meeting the legal requirements for the weight of their products (which happened to be retail packaging). As flexible as QIS was, we couldn’t make it meet this requirement with our existing technology. Thankfully, we love a good challenge.

That prospect had invested heavily on automatic checkweigh devices that cleverly rejected underweight packages (aka non-compliant) but also threw data away from those packages that were good. That meant they were never able to control their weight-process capability. For a company doing millions in retail packaging each year, it can be worth a lot of money to figure this out.

So we designed a system that became the basis for LabLink that would effectively connect checkweighers and online scales with software reporting. We built into it every aspect of the legal view of weight control and as a result, were able to provide consistent, up-to-date information to operators. With this information in hand, now operators would never knowingly ship underweight product, which also gives them the ability to analyze their production and refine cost.

During the course of CheckWeigh’s development, we realized the key to finding the solution was in this simple fact: weight control is dependent upon process capability. Based on the legal requirements, the norm was to err on the side of caution, which meant going heavy rather than ever being light. But that also meant losing profits due to giving away excess product.

With CheckWeigh, we empower manufacturers with a state-of-the-art program so they can finally give away as little weight as possible and as a result, make more money.

Sounds like a good balance to me.

Tim Perris
With QiSOFT Since 1998