Product category:
Vision and Colour Sensors
News Release from: Cognex UK | Subject: In-Sight 1000 and In-Sight 3000
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 20 June 2003
Procter and Gamble has vision for the
future
Procter and Gamble has expanded its use of machine vision systems at its production unit in Blois, France, which manufactures shampoo bottles for brands such as Pantene and Head and Shoulders.
At the Procter and Gamble production unit in Blois, France, which manufactures shampoo bottles for brands such as Pantene and Head and Shoulders, high-performance Cognex machine vision systems for labelling and marking inspection tasks have been used for a long time The success of these existing installations led Procter and Gamble recently to broaden the use of machine vision systems throughout the Blois unit
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company has installed two new machine vision applications supported by the In-Sight 1000 and In-Sight 3000 Cognex sensors on its high speed marking and packaging production lines.
The first application uses Cognex In-Sight sensors to inspect the marking and labeling of shampoo bottles, verifying the type of labels applied and their correct positioning on each bottle.
One In-Sight is positioned to check the back and one on the front.
The sensors also verify the presence of specific lot numbers.
The second application is situated on the packaging production line.
The shampoo bottles are shrink-wrapped in packs of six and the Cognex In-Sight sensors are used to verify compliance with strict packaging specifications.
Both applications have benefited from the integrated, independent and easy-to-use In-Sight sensors which contributed greatly to the fast implementation of machine vision at Procter and Gamble.
The In-Sight sensors installed on the two marking and packaging production lines are linked to an Ethernet network and communicate directly with the production unit's monitoring system.
Due to the architecture, the results from the machine vision inspections, such as the number of defects detected and rejects, are centralised and viewable on a monitoring system.
At the end of each production cycle they are recorded in the production report.
Production managers then use these data to guarantee production quality.
They may also use the data to perform qualitative analysis and generate statistics to optimise manufacturing and production processes.
The introduction of In-Sight sensors at the Blois production unit has maintained high productivity at Procter and Gamble while ensuring optimum quality of production. Request a free brochure from Cognex UK ...
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