Smarter Maintenance with SmartSkin

Proactively maintain packaging lines with SmartSkin’s real-time insights into pressure, shock, spin, tilt and scuffing—minimizing downtime, preventing damage, and extending the life of critical assets in food and beverage manufacturing.

SmartSkin Solutions

Stop Packaging Damage Fast

SmartSkin’s digital container twins give maintenance teams the data they need to identify root causes of wear, impact, and misalignment before failures occur. By tracking real-time pressure and adverse forces on packaging across the line, teams can proactively prevent unplanned downtime and reduce maintenance costs.

Empower your crew with predictive insights and streamline performance like never before.

Benefits

Precision Maintenance for Peak Performance

When containers are damaged on the line, it’s often a symptom of deeper mechanical or alignment issues. SmartSkin gives maintenance teams a container’s-eye view of the line, using sensor-enabled replicas to detect harmful pressure, impact, spin, tilt and scuffing. By seeing exactly where containers are stressed, dented, or broken, teams can make data-driven adjustments—before real products are affected. This leads to fewer stoppages, less rework, and greater packaging reliability.

It provides actionable data about where to intervene—not just which machine, but which motion and which exact interaction is damaging your packaging.

SmartSkin custom makes each container twin exactly the specs of your containers. If your line has changeovers, SmartSkin can provide one container twin for each of your containers specifications. This can help to speed up changeover time and verify proper equipment setup.

Learn more about how SmartSkin supports setups and changeovers.

Yes—minimizing damage means fewer crushed cans, broken bottles, and scuffed PET, leading to less scrap and rework.

By tracking the real-time forces on containers, you can proactively adjust or repair machinery before damage affects actual products.

SmartSkin uses sensor-enabled replicas of your actual containers—bottles, cans, or jars—that run through your production line just like real product. These “digital twins” are embedded with highly sensitive pressure, impact, and motion sensors that capture every force the container experiences in real-time. As they pass through conveyors, transfers, fillers, and cappers, they generate a detailed heatmap of where and how stress is applied.

Maintenance teams can then view this data via SmartSkin’s analytics platform, pinpointing the exact locations and conditions—like excessive pressure from star wheels or misaligned guides—that lead to container damage. This allows teams to address root causes before real product is affected, reducing waste and downtime.

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