Inspection/Detection/Vision

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John Villadsen has joined the company as vice president of global operations

Care Controls Inc. introduces its updated double seam inspection system--IVIS 360. This unit inspects all 360 degrees of a cans seam checking it for defects.

Cognex Dataman 8050 handheld barcode readers provide unprecedented speed and accuracy at an affordable price

Omega Design Corporation now offers the Intelli-Code Carton Coding and Inspection System for the printing of unit-level data on individual cartons via thermal ink jet or laser printing.

With the many technological advances and innovations of the twenty first century, today’s consumers expect and demand convenience, especially when it comes to their daily diet.

Cognex Corporation announces the release of In-Sight Explorer 4.9, software that offers an expanded set of inspection tools and an enhanced Cognex Connect communications suite.

Tall-profile package inspection will now benefit from a new flexible, easier-to-use and more cost-effective horizontal beam X-ray system.

The meat industry pioneered the use of X-ray technology in food production, using it to identify and remove bone fragments and to analyze fat content.

A food processor fills an average of 800 cans per minute with a wide range of products such as vegetables, fruit and soup. An important challenge for the company is ensuring that the code printed on the bottom of each can matches the product in the can. A mismatch runs the risk of creating an unhappy customer or, even worse, an allergic reaction. In the past, there were concerns that operators might accidentally set up the printer to generate the wrong code or that the printer used to apply the code on the can might fail to produce a readable code. These concerns have been overcome with the installation of a machine vision system that reads the code on the bottom of the can in just 60 milliseconds, enough time to reject cans with incorrect or unreadable codes. The vision system uses pattern matching to orient the code regardless of its radial position then uses optical character recognition to read the code and match it against the product currently being produced on the line.