ROPP FACTORY ACCEPTANCE TEST CHECKLIST

This blank checklist structures a project-specific ROPP capping trial. It does not set universal pass values. Acceptance criteria must be approved for the actual bottle, closure, product and quality method.

1. PROJECT AND SCOPE
Project / quotation reference:
Customer / site:
Machine model and configuration:
Machine serial or build reference:
Trial date and location:
Responsible representatives:
Approved formats included:
Excluded scope:

2. PACKAGING CONTROL
Bottle supplier and drawing revision:
Bottle lot(s) and sample quantity:
Closure supplier and drawing revision:
Closure lot(s) and sample quantity:
Liner / insert / pourer details:
Product or trial-liquid condition:
Decorative finish / scuff standard:
Retained uncapped controls identified:

3. TOOLING AND FORMAT PARTS
Capping head / pressure block identity:
Thread-roller identity:
Tuck-under / pilfer-band roller identity:
Bottle support / platform identity:
Guides / starwheels / transfer parts:
Cap feeder / chute / transfer parts:
Recorded height, pressure and setting references:
Change-parts list checked and labelled:

4. LINE INTERFACES
Upstream equipment and agreed bottle condition:
Conveyor height, direction, speed and spacing:
Cap storage, orientation, refill and low-level method:
Downstream equipment and blocked-line response:
Start permissives / healthy signals / fault signals:
Emergency-stop boundary and restart responsibility:
Reject or containment method where specified:

5. QUALITY METHODS
Visual cap-height and alignment method:
Thread-form and cap-finish standard:
Pilfer-band / bridge / tuck-under standard:
Opening method, instrument and calibration reference:
Conditioning time and sample temperature:
Leak / inversion / storage method:
Sampling plan, including every head where applicable:
Retest / quarantine / deviation rule:

6. OPERATING TESTS
First-off samples approved:
Stable-run condition defined:
Run duration defined:
Gross cycles or accepted finished bottles defined:
Inspection frequency defined:
Treatment of rejects and stops defined:
Cap refill tested:
Cap starvation / feeder interruption tested where specified:
Planned stop and restart tested:
Downstream blocked response tested where specified:
Changeover and first-off approval tested:

7. RESULTS AND CLOSE-OUT
Good bottles produced:
Rejects by agreed cause category:
Line stops and cause:
Opening results reference:
Leak results reference:
Visual / tamper-band results reference:
Head-by-head evidence reference:
Approved samples retained and labelled:
Open deviations and responsible owner:
Final agreed operating window:
Customer sign-off:
Lancing sign-off:
Date: