Machine Vision OEM Components
Food and Packaging Inspection
Food and packaging inspection, including inspection, measurement, or counting of bottles, cans, containers, labels, foods, pills, and more, offers different challenges than electronics or semiconductor inspection. It is important to find all the dead pixels in a flat panel television, but it is vital that the labels on your prescription medicine are accurate and legible, and that food containers are free of contaminants before filling and properly sealed afterwards. Industrial machine vision plays an important role in quality control for many foods and pharmaceuticals. Color imaging, which is not necessary for many industrial applications, can become very important in food inspection, as it is often necessary to judge ripeness or "doneness."
Performance requirements for food and packaging applications include:
- high resolution and high speed capture and processing to keep up with high volume production
- high sensitivity to capture good images in limited lighting; some foods and medicines cannot tolerate bright lights or the high temperatures that often accompany it
- high dynamic range and antiblooming to tolerate bright spots such as reflections from cans and bottles
- accurate, stable, consistent color performance
- versatile barcode support and OCR capability
- reliable measurements
Teledyne DALSA has a wide range of technologies and products that have proven themselves in numerous food and packaging applications. Our high-performance line scan and TDI cameras are outstanding performers in low light. Teledyne DALSA offers a variety of approaches to color imaging to help meet your application's unique needs. The Trigger to Image Reliability framework of our framegrabbers and vision processors ensures robust applications. We offer various models with hardware processing blocks, dynamic lookup table for pixel enhancement, real-time correction for uneven illumination and sensor defects. Teledyne DALSA's industry-leading Sapera vision software offers powerful scale and rotation independent barcode processing, edge and Area-based pattern finding tools, and sub-pixel edge detection for accurate measurements. Sapera Architect enables rapid evaluation.
More Information
- Article: Making the Smart Choice for Smart Inspection (Food and Beverage Packaging Magazine)
- Genie
- Line scan cameras
- High sensitivity TDI line scan cameras
- Vision processors
- Sapera vision software
- Complete factory floor vision solutions
- Custom solutions
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