The first Quality Station vision system from Olmec UK has been installed at a leading healthcare product manufacturer.
The system is being used to inspect a range of plastic and glass bottles and cylindrical containers, checking for the presence, height and angle of bottle caps and to make sure that they are securely located.
Fill levels are also checked for transparent bottles.
Each Olmec Quality Station is equipped with illumination, camera, control software and reject and failsafe mechanisms appropriate for the particular application.
“An extensive range of failsafe checks has been built into the system,” the company says.
“For example, if three consecutive products are rejected for same reason, the line stops to allow further investigation.’
The system is equipped with a variety of sensors to check the correct spacing of product as it approaches the camera, and also to stop the line if rejected product is not detected on the reject belt, or good product is not detected on the outfeed conveyor.
