With inflation, business costs are rising rapidly, and manufacturers are driven to find the root causes of quality problems and reduce waste. The vision system provides a large number of measurement data for analysis and timely feedback on quality issues. Manufacturers extend the level of quality that can be achieved with vision systems, resolving product quality issues faster than ever before.

Vision technology improves consistency and product quality, and reduces costs in a number of ways:

——Provide 100% inspection/rejection based on the production speed of the enterprise.

——Collect critical data and quickly analyze it through on-line continuous monitoring and/or off-line sampling.

——With data points in the production process, alerts and feedback loops enable operators to make changes quickly and reduce waste.

Vision systems can be used to integrate monitoring throughout the production process, as well as reject or redirect functions to automatically remove "bad" items from the production line before packaging, thus reducing waste. For example, manufacturers can view data and keep track of trends during inspection. And in the product inspection process, the visual inspection system automatically eliminates "defective products" according to objective data, and does not affect the production speed of the enterprise during the elimination process.

he data collected by vision inspection systems provides manufacturers with the information they need to make better operational decisions in automated production lines (and not just in real-time production). Manufacturers can investigate issues, identify trends and improve their processes through automated reporting and data analysis tools, which help them produce quality products.

Source: Food & Beverage Network, Food & Beverage Trends, Manufacturing Technology Equipment & Ingredients (www.fbe-china.com)