High Speed Vision Inspection
Midwest Engineered Systems routinely utilizes high-speed vision inspection equipment in our manufacturing automation systems to fulfill our customers’ process needs. High-speed vision systems are sophisticated enough to eliminate the need to manually inspect and measure materials as they cycle through a system.
Vision systems are ideal in the food production industry by visually inspecting a part’s shape, quantity, volume and more. While coordinating with other automation systems to make any adjustments to the part accordingly. Vision systems would eliminate the need to have human operators staged along a production line doing those mundane tasks.
Track Defects & Part Variances with Vision Inspection Systems
Automating defect detection can have a great return on investment as automating this process is far more reliable and accurate than using human inspectors. These automated systems can be used in a wide range of applications and scenarios and can be easily incorporated into a conveyor system.
Human inspectors tend to find defects based on expectations and prior knowledge. That in turn makes the job done by humans inherently unreliable due to their subjective nature. With increasing demands for consistency and efficiency, humans performing this tedious, costly job can be replaced with computerized vision systems. These vision systems can help reduce human workloads and labor costs while increasing overall throughput.
Product Defects
Looking for defects in complex parts or products can be daunting. However, defect inspection systems can look for broken or missing parts, malformed parts, part verification and any number of different variables. Product defects that go unnoticed during manufacturing can be costly in recalls and returned products, along with the loss of customer confidence.
Surface Defects
While scanning the surface of a part, defect inspection systems can look for: color and texture variance, scratches or dents, surface shape irregularities, surface finish inconsistencies, wrinkles and tears, perforation detection and more. Catching these defects early helps eliminate product waste and potentially costly recalls.
Packaging Defects
Package consistency and quality are exceptionally important for presentation purposes, but it is also essential in keeping the contents inside sealed and secured. Defect inspection systems can verify the label placement, scan for packaging misprints, poor seals, product leakage, misshapen or wrinkled packaging and much more. Defects of this sort can potentially contaminate or damage other products in the same batch if it goes undetected.
MWES builds and implements systems that take advantage of vision systems. Utilizing these systems provides our customers with greater cycle times and a great ROI. By using automated high-speed inspection vision systems, materials can be quickly and accurately checked for consistency in the production line. MWES’ inspection systems are custom-designed to incorporate different handling and feeding concepts for almost any part style.
