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NMX-CFM-30 · DELIVERED AGAINST A WON ORDER — COMPOSITION FILLING & ASSEMBLING MACHINE

Dosed to the gram. Closed to the newton-metre.

Name: Composition Filling & Assembling Machine
Brand: Neometrix

Two rules govern this line. Weigh what you deliver — bulk density moves with humidity, batch and settling, so a volumetric doser drifts silently while a gravimetric head on a load cell corrects itself, holding ±2 g on the coarse composition and ±0.5 g on finer marker powders. And a seal is a torque figure, not an instruction — servo tools close to ±0.1 Nm against programmable thresholds, recorded per unit. Between those two rules sit 17 indexed stations: dust-free cleaning of the body, gravimetric filling, multi-layer sealing, robotic assembly, vision-guided labelling — about 500 units an hour, flameproof and interlocked, with nobody at the stations. This machine was delivered against a won order for a central armed police force’s less-lethal store line; further machines of the class have been quoted.

Enquire — filling & assembling machine Capability sheet (PDF)

Illustrative image, not the delivered machine — a compact multi-station filling and assembling line in a clean bay: a circular stainless rotary indexing table ringed by upright station heads inside a guarded cabinet of clear polycarbonate panels in grey framing, a straight feed track holding plain unmarked cylindrical aluminium canister bodies, a blank dark touchscreen on a pedestal, pale epoxy floor and walls, everything clean, empty and unattended, no people and no text

Fig · 01 The line — an indexing table, a ring of stations, and one job done repeatably at each — illustrative, not the delivered machine

Rate

~500 / hourcontinuous · configurable

Dosing

±2 g · ±0.5 ggravimetric · load cell

Torque

±0.1 Nmservo · thresholds

Stations

17, indexedone job each

Status

deliveredwon order · more quoted

ISO 9001 / 14001 Delivered against a won order Flameproof & interlocked Full digital traceability Noida · India

Overview

Weigh what you deliver. Close to a number.

A filling and assembling line is judged on one thing: whether the ten-thousandth unit is the same as the first. Everything that makes that true is a measurement decision rather than a mechanical one — dosing that weighs instead of assuming, closing that works to a torque figure instead of a feeling, and a record that leaves with every unit. The mechanics are settled engineering; the discipline is what gets bought.

Illustrative image, not the delivered machine — close view of a gravimetric dosing head: a polished stainless conical head with a fine tapered nozzle poised a few centimetres above a single plain empty cylindrical aluminium canister body standing on a small square stainless weighing platform, thin tubing and a slim cable running to the head, machined stainless framing behind, spotless and completely empty, no people and no text

Fig · 02 Gravimetric dosing — the load cell is what turns a filling head into an instrument — illustrative, not the delivered machine

Gravimetric, not volumetric. A volumetric doser delivers a fixed space, and a fixed space is only a fixed mass if bulk density never changes — which it does, with humidity, batch, and how long the hopper has been standing. A machine built on that assumption does not fail loudly; it drifts, and the drift shows up as a rejected lot weeks later. So the delivered line weighs: the station doses onto a load cell and corrects against the target, which is why it holds ±2 g on the coarse composition and ±0.5 g on the finer marker powders rather than quoting a number it cannot repeat.

Closing is a specification. “Tight” is not an engineering instruction. Too little and the seal is not a seal; too much and a thin body deforms — a defect created by the machine meant to prevent them. So closing runs on servo torque tools to ±0.1 Nm with programmable thresholds per station, and the achieved figure is written against the unit. The multi-layer sealing ahead of it is set the same way: to values, not to judgement.

Seventeen stations, because the operations want different conditions. The body is cleaned dust-free first — station one, not housekeeping, because anything left inside becomes a contaminant the downstream stations will faithfully seal in. Then filling, multi-layer sealing, robotic assembly of the components, and vision-guided labelling and verification. Each station does one thing, indexed, repeatably, at about 500 units an hour — and the whole line runs flameproof and interlocked, with nobody at the stations.

This page describes the machine, not the material. The composition, its handling and its licensing are the customer’s and the licensing authority’s to specify — the machine is engineered to the duty they define.

Delivered

Not a proposal

This line was built, delivered and commissioned against a won order for a central armed police force’s less-lethal store line — the figures on this page are its figures.

Measured

Every unit weighed

Gravimetric dosing with load-cell correction, and the achieved fill written per unit — because a doser that is not weighed is a doser that is drifting.

Recorded

Traceability that leaves the machine

Fill weight and torque per unit against the batch, out over standard interfaces to the plant’s supervisory system — not stranded in the controller.

Architecture

Clean, dose, assemble, close.

The schematic follows one unit — the body cleaned, the composition dosed and weighed, the components assembled and sealed, the unit closed to torque and written to the record — and shows the machine behind it: the indexing stations, the gravimetric doser, robotic assembly and sealing, and the torque, vision and traceability end.

FIG · 03CFM ARCHITECTURE · INDEXING STATIONS / GRAVIMETRIC DOSER / ASSEMBLY + SEALING · TORQUE, VISION & RECORD

Fig · 03 Every unit the same unit — and every one of them on the record

Arc · 01

Indexing Stations

17 on the delivered line, each doing one thing repeatably under its own conditions — beginning with dust-free cleaning of the body.

Arc · 02

Gravimetric Doser

Delivers, weighs and corrects on a load cell — ±2 g on the coarse composition, ±0.5 g on finer marker powders.

Arc · 03

Assembly & Sealing

Robotic placement of components and multi-layer sealing — set to values rather than to judgement, station by station.

Arc · 04

Torque, Vision & Record

Servo closing to ±0.1 Nm against thresholds, vision verification, and per-unit traceability out to SCADA.

Have a filling-and-assembling line or a new store nature to run? Send the store, the fill tolerance and the rate — a clause-by-clause compliance matrix within two working days · [email protected]

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Specifications

As delivered, and as engineered next.

The figures below are the delivered machines’ own. New lines follow the same discipline, sized to three givens: the store and its components, the fill tolerance the specification demands, and the rate and bay the plant can support.

Illustrative image, not the delivered machine — close view of an automatic closing station: a servo torque head on a vertical stainless spindle lowering a plain unmarked flat aluminium cap onto the open top of a cylindrical canister body clamped upright in a machined fixture, a curved feed track alongside holding a row of identical plain caps, polished machine surfaces with light use marks, no people and no text

Fig · 04 The closing station — a torque figure against a threshold, recorded per unit — illustrative, not the delivered machine

Where filling-and-assembling lines go wrong

In what is assumed rather than measured. Volumetric dosing trusted without weighing drifts with humidity and batch, invisibly, until a lot is rejected. Closing specified as “tight” produces both leaking seals and deformed bodies from the same line on the same day. Cleaning treated as housekeeping rather than as station one lets a contaminant be sealed in perfectly. Rate is quoted at the headline figure with changeover between store sizes uncosted, so a line that is magnificent on one nature is resented on three. And traceability stops inside the machine, which is the one place it is no use.

So the discipline runs the other way, and it is visible in the numbers on this page. Dosing is gravimetric with load-cell correction. Closing is a torque band with programmable thresholds, achieved figure recorded. Cleaning is station one. Changeover is engineered and timed rather than assumed. The record leaves the machine over standard interfaces to the plant’s supervisory system. And the whole line is built to be worked safely — flameproof, dual-channel emergency stops, interlocked doors, pressure-relief venting and static control — because the stations run with nobody at them for a reason.

Full specification — expand

Machine	Composition filling & assembling machine — multi-station automatic line: body cleaning, gravimetric dosing, multi-layer sealing, robotic assembly, torque closing, vision verification & records
Production Rate	Up to ~500 units/hour in continuous operation, configurable from the controller
Fill Tolerance	±2 g on the coarse composition · ±0.5 g on finer marker powders — gravimetric, with integrated load-cell feedback
Torque Accuracy	±0.1 Nm — servo-driven tools with programmable thresholds, achieved figure recorded per unit
Stations	17 indexed stations — dust-free body cleaning, gravimetric filling, multi-layer sealing, robotic assembly, vision-guided labelling & verification
Footprint	7.5 m × 4.0 m × 3.0 m, modular layout suitable for a standard industrial workshop
Companion Shell Machine	41 ± 2 g fill · cycle time ≤ 7.2 s per unit (≈ 500/hour) · footprint 5.85 × 5.3 × 2.5 m · operating 25 ± 10 °C, RH 40 ± 15%
Power	230 V ± 10%, 50 Hz (single/three-phase) or 100–240 VAC, 50/60 Hz; control 24 V DC isolated with in-built surge protection
Compressed Air	6 bar, moisture-free & oil-free — 200–500 L/min average consumption depending on machine
Materials	SS 304/316 contact surfaces; powder-coated MS structural frame
Noise	≤ 70 dB at full load (companion machine ≤ 72 dB(A))
Safety	Flameproof workflow, dual-channel emergency stops, interlocked access doors, pressure-relief venting, static control — stations run unattended
Data & Traceability	Ethernet, RS-485, USB, SD card & standard industrial fieldbus; optional OPC-UA to SCADA; full digital traceability & remote diagnostics
Standards	Built to ATEX, CE, MIL-STD & NFPA practice as the installation requires
Scope Boundary	The machine and the plant, never the material — the composition, its handling & its licensing are the customer's & the licensing authority's to specify
Sourcing	Controllers & HMI, servo tools, load cells, vision & robotic components are bought-in certified items; Neometrix engineers the stations, dosing, assembly, sealing, torque, records & integration
Status	DELIVERED against a won order for a central armed police force's less-lethal store line · quoted across further filling-and-assembling machine requirements · engineered to order for new natures & rates

PDF · 1 page

Composition Filling & Assembling Machine — Capability Sheet

Tender Response

Send the store, tolerance & rate — compliance matrix in two working days

Variants

One discipline, four scopes.

Requirements arrive as a full filling-and-assembling line, a single shell filling machine, a station to be added, or a changeover kit for a new store. The discipline — weigh the fill, close to a number, record every unit — is common.

Var · 01

Filling & Assembling Lines

The delivered configuration — multi-station indexed line from body cleaning through to vision-verified labelling, at rate.

Var · 02

Shell Filling Machines

Single-purpose machines for a fixed fill and store — the companion configuration, at a cycle time under 7.2 seconds.

Var · 03

Dosing, Sealing & Torque Stations

Stations supplied alone to add gravimetric dosing, sealing or recorded torque closing to a line that already exists.

Var · 04

Changeover Kits, Spares & AMC

Tooling and recipes for a new store nature, with spares, calibration of the weighing and torque chains, and AMC through life.

Applications

Where the line earns its keep.

Licensed plants making a large number of identical, certified units.

A · 01Less-lethal store manufacture

A · 02Central armed police & state force units

A · 03Ordnance factories’ composition lines

A · 04Defence-production establishments

A · 05Plant capacity augmentation & modernisation

A · 06Quality directorates & inspectorates

FAQ

Common questions.

Plain-language answers from the engineering team.

Q · 01 Why gravimetric dosing rather than volumetric?

Because a volumetric doser delivers a fixed space, and a fixed space is only a fixed mass if bulk density never changes — which it always does. Powders and granular compositions take up more or less room depending on humidity, the batch they came from, how far they have settled in the hopper, and how much head is above them. A machine that measures volume and reports mass is therefore making an assumption that is quietly wrong for part of every shift. The failure mode is what makes it expensive: it does not stop or alarm, it drifts, and the drift is discovered when a lot is checked and rejected, by which point a great many units have been made. Gravimetric dosing removes the assumption. The store body sits on a load cell, the station doses onto it, and the delivered mass is measured directly and corrected against the target — so the machine is reporting what actually happened rather than what should have. That is what allows the delivered line to hold ±2 g on the coarse composition and ±0.5 g on the finer marker powders, and to keep holding it when the weather changes. The load cell is calibrated on a schedule against reference masses, because a weighing chain that is not traceable is just a more confident assumption.

Q · 02 Why specify closing as a torque figure?

Because “tight” produces two opposite defects from the same line on the same day. Under-torque leaves a seal that is not a seal — it may pass a visual check and fail after months in store, which is the worst possible time to find out. Over-torque deforms a thin body or crushes the sealing element, creating the very leak path the closing operation exists to prevent, and it does it invisibly. Between those two lies a band, and the band is narrow enough that no operator can hit it by feel repeatedly across a shift. So closing runs on servo-driven torque tools working to ±0.1 Nm against programmable thresholds set per station and per store nature. Three things follow. The tool stops at the figure rather than at the end of an operator’s patience. The achieved torque — not the target — is recorded against the unit, so a drifting tool shows up as a trend before it becomes a batch problem. And the thresholds are part of the recipe, recalled at changeover rather than re-entered by hand, because re-entering numbers is how the wrong ones get used. The same principle governs the multi-layer sealing upstream: set to values, verified, recorded.

Q · 03 What do seventeen stations actually do?

They separate operations that want different conditions, which is the whole reason an indexed line beats a single clever machine. The sequence begins with dust-free cleaning of the store body — station one, and treated as a process step rather than as housekeeping, because anything left inside is a contaminant that every downstream station will faithfully seal in. Then gravimetric filling onto the load cell. Then multi-layer sealing, which is several stations rather than one because each layer wants its own placement, pressure and dwell. Then robotic assembly of the components, where placement repeatability matters more than speed. Then closing to torque, and finally vision-guided labelling and verification, which checks that what is about to leave the machine is actually what the recipe says. Splitting the work this way buys three things: each station can be optimised and validated on its own; a fault is localised to a station instead of stopping a monolith; and the index rate — not the slowest complete cycle — sets throughput, which is how a line of this size reaches about 500 units an hour in a 7.5 by 4.0 by 3.0 metre footprint that still fits an ordinary workshop bay.

Q · 04 How is the line kept safe, and who stands at the stations?

Nobody, while it runs — the stations are automatic and the line is worked from outside its guarding. The safety case is built in layers rather than bolted on. The workflow is flameproof, with equipment selected for the classified area and static control throughout, since static is the hazard that ordinary industrial machinery ignores and this duty cannot. Access is interlocked: doors cannot be opened while the line is live, and opening one is a stop rather than a warning. Dual-channel emergency stops mean a single fault cannot defeat the stop function. Pressure-relief venting is provided so that if an event occurs it is directed rather than contained. Contact surfaces are SS 304/316 and the frame is powder-coated mild steel, chosen for cleanability as much as for corrosion. The line runs at under 70 dB at full load, which matters because a quiet machine is one people can work around and hear faults in. And the same rule that governs quality governs safety: the abnormal cases — a jam, a part-filled body, a failed placement — are designed to be cleared with the line isolated and from outside the guarding, because those are exactly the moments when someone otherwise reaches in.

Q · 05 What exactly has been delivered, and what would be engineered new?

Worth being precise about, because most equipment pages are not. What has been delivered: a composition filling machine together with its assembling machine, supplied against a won order for a central armed police force’s less-lethal store line — and every figure on this page is that machine’s own, taken from its specification rather than from a brochure: the rate, the ±2 g and ±0.5 g fill tolerances, the ±0.1 Nm torque accuracy, the seventeen stations, the footprint, the services, the noise level and the data interfaces. A companion shell filling and assembling machine of the same family is specified alongside it at a 41 ± 2 g fill and a cycle time under 7.2 seconds. Further machines of the class have been quoted to other requirements. What would be engineered new for a fresh requirement: the station count and sequence for a different store and component set, the dosing range and tooling for a different fill, the torque recipes, the fixtures, the rate, and the fit to the customer’s own bay, services and licensing regime. The discipline does not change — weigh the fill, close to a number, record every unit — and neither does the boundary: the composition itself is always the customer’s and the licensing authority’s to specify.

Q · 06 What do you build, and what is bought-in?

What Neometrix does: the line — indexing table or transfer, station frames, tooling and fixtures, guarding and enclosure; the dosing stations — heads, nozzles, weighing platforms and the correction logic that makes them gravimetric rather than merely automatic; the sealing and assembly stations — multi-layer sealing tooling, robotic placement and its fixtures; the closing stations — servo torque spindles, threshold logic and the per-unit record; the vision, labelling and verification; the controls and traceability — recipes, sequencing, interlock logic and the data path out to the plant’s supervisory system; the bay integration — flameproof provision, static control, relief venting and services; and installation, commissioning, calibration, spares, training and AMC through life. What is bought-in certified: controllers and HMI, servo tools, load cells and weighing instrumentation, vision and robotic components, and safety-rated devices, each with its certificates. Delivered against a won order for a central armed police force’s less-lethal store line; quoted across further filling-and-assembling machine requirements; engineered to order for new natures and rates.

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ISO 9001 / 14001 DELIVERED AGAINST A WON ORDER — COMPOSITION FILLING & ASSEMBLING MACHINE GRAVIMETRIC DOSING · ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY · TORQUE CLOSING · PER-UNIT TRACEABILITY ENGINEERED IN NOIDA · INDIA

Dosed to the gram. Closed to the newton-metre.

Weigh what you deliver. Close to a number.

Not a proposal

Every unit weighed

Traceability that leaves the machine

Clean, dose, assemble, close.

Indexing Stations

Gravimetric Doser

Assembly & Sealing

Torque, Vision & Record

As delivered, and as engineered next.

Where filling-and-assembling lines go wrong

One discipline, four scopes.

Filling & Assembling Lines

Shell Filling Machines

Dosing, Sealing & Torque Stations

Changeover Kits, Spares & AMC

Where the line earns its keep.

Common questions.

The filling family from Neometrix.

Screw Filling Machine

Non-Destructive Testing & Inspection System

Ammunition Packing & Container Line

Send the store
and the tolerance.

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Dosed to the gram. Closed to the newton-metre.

Weigh what you deliver. Close to a number.

Not a proposal

Every unit weighed

Traceability that leaves the machine

Clean, dose, assemble, close.

Indexing Stations

Gravimetric Doser

Assembly & Sealing

Torque, Vision & Record

As delivered, and as engineered next.

Where filling-and-assembling lines go wrong

One discipline, four scopes.

Filling & Assembling Lines

Shell Filling Machines

Dosing, Sealing & Torque Stations

Changeover Kits, Spares & AMC

Where the line earns its keep.

Common questions.

The filling family from Neometrix.

Screw Filling Machine

Non-Destructive Testing & Inspection System

Ammunition Packing & Container Line

Send the storeand the tolerance.

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Send the store
and the tolerance.