Brief introduction: possibilities to monitor food production processes. Reduce waste, monitor quality and quantity with machine-vision

1. Ron van Dooren
Technical Sales Advisor
Eindhoven, November 2015

2. from
Vision is a tool (to check quality)
to
Vision is the central nerve system of our business
VISION IS IN TRANSITION
by
Sharing knowledge:
“nurture acceptance by understanding”

3. VISION – POSITIONING OF FOOD APPLICATIONS
Static Dynamic
Speed / movement
Complexityof
environmentorproduct
Conditioned
Non-
controlled
Businessprocess
dependence
Central /
integrated
Stand-alone
tool
Vision

4. VISION – PRACTICAL APPLICATION ARGUMENTS
Food quality monitoring
• One hundred percent check
• Immediate feedback available for process-optimization
• 24/7 operation, high speeds
• No human interventions in the product-flow
• Enabling traceability
• Multiple features possible with multi-spectral camera
Food quantity monitoring
• Again: One hundred percent count
• Length, width and height measurements in-line
• Quantity counting
• Orientation of products
• Building statistics
Any possible improvement will reduce waste

5. VISION – PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS / CASES
Monitoring of packaging and coding
• Reading printed codes on package
• Verification of packing material
• Traceability of packages per batch or time-stamp
There should be no risk in any link of the chain

6. BELTECH – VISION & ROBOTICS
Because no human eye can exceed the repeatability of a computer
Why automation with vision?

7. VISION – CONCLUSION & TRENDS
‘We believe that -adaptive- vision technology is in its break-through decade’
Machine Vision
 Anything is possible – there is no “One size fits all”
 Proven technologies – yet not simple
 Turn-key integrated solution: more than delivering a camera
 A lot happens in adaptive robotics for industry, not yet in food
Near Future
 Keeping production in Europe requires maximum
efficiency, being lean
 ROI-areas not just financial : quality, claim,
traceability, waste-reduction
 Increasingly intelligent and adaptive!
 Data-harvesting often more important than the
product/process

8. ─ Unique group of Tech-companies
 Vision, Robotics & Mechatronics
 now 50 employees
 World-wide customer base
 Own R&D (Agro & Food)
 Own products

9. ─ Unique group of Tech-companies
”By believing in his dreams,
a man turns them into reality”
Herge

10. Bedankt voor uw aandacht!