Due to my 25 years of work at one of the largest beverage can manufacturers, I have gone through numerous areas and departments over the course of my professional career and learned extensive knowledge about the production of the can in all its facets.
Starting with my diploma thesis on the topic ” stretching tools and stretching process of the beverage can, on the area of work preparation, production and technology, quality management, continuous improvement, lean management / Six Sigma.
- Decorative latching and decorative construction
- Technical background of the individual processing steps
- Aluminum coils
- Cupper
- Bodymaker and trimmer
- Washer and dry cleaning and pretreatment of the blank cans
- UV and Standard Rimcoat Application
- Printing process on the decorator
- OV application
- Interior paint
- Necking and flanging process
- All internal and external quality requirements and test or testing methods
- Experiences with test equipment from the companies, Pressco, Applied Vision, Insensiv, Tours, Sencon, …
- Palletizer, final inspection and storage
- Transport systems including mass transport by belt, air table, single filter and isolation
- Qualification of new products, feedstocks or working methods in cooperation with customers and suppliers
- … to be continued…