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Image processing is the key to 100% quality

The eye eats with you - image processing sees more

Producing products reliably and error-free is becoming increasingly important in the food, beverage and packaging industries. This pressure leads to an extremely high level of automation in production and perfectly equipped production facilities.

Image processing plays a key role in such automation processes with high requirements in terms of speed and accuracy and ensures manufacturers their competitive advantages. This proven technology opens up reliable and powerful quality monitoring options, both when inspecting the food itself, as well as when checking packaging and tracking products. The high level of automation in food processing, packaging and testing offers producers significant advantages, as less waste and rejects contribute to increased profits. Controls using image processing can also avoid expensive fines imposed by supermarkets, for example, if products are incorrectly labeled or packaged. All of this makes 100% inspection essential - and such inspection systems quickly pay for themselves.

Extensive application possibilities

Before packaging food and beverages, it must be checked whether the contents meet the high requirements of customers. High-speed systems are used in a wide variety of areas to control a variety of product features. These testing systems check the shape and size as well as the color or appearance of a product. This ensures the desired product quality and appearance. Many food applications use vision systems to troubleshoot semi-finished or finished products as part of their quality control processes.

For example, image processing can be used to automatically inspect fruits and vegetables for color, size or shape, and defects. For processed foods such as cookies, tortillas, pizzas, etc., image processing can be used, for example, to detect defective products, measure size and shape, detect damage, holes or burnt products, or even the correct arrangement and distribution of toppings on pizzas , of chocolates in a box etc.

Applications in the beverage industry are similarly diverse and include fill level control as well as inspection for contamination by foreign bodies or bottle and can inspection, where, for example, labels are checked for position, quality and correct content.

portion control

Image processing allows the measurement of a variety of parameters. An example of this are cutting machines with integrated cameras, which enable extremely clean cuts. Image processing ensures that ham, cheese or bacon portions always have absolutely the same content and that extras are avoided.

Food packaging

Ensuring that a product is properly packaged is of utmost importance in many areas. The consistency of content, color and logo position to maintain a consistent brand presentation is just as important as checking the integrity of the packaging in terms of product purity and shelf life.
For example, packaging containing a large number of products is checked for correct quantity, arrangement and quality. These results can be transmitted to the control unit of a production plant, a production data acquisition system, or a production planning system.

labeling

To guarantee consumer safety, it is necessary that products are correctly labeled. All ingredients must be listed as precisely as the nutritional information. Image processing applications, for example, check the presence of labels, read codes and letters or check prints.
In some applications, the labeling, product image and production date on packaging are checked in terms of position, quality and color and it is checked whether the actual content corresponds to the print.

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