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Vision and Colour Sensors
News Release from: Cognex UK | Subject: Vision systems
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2007
Vision system monitors pizza size and
shape
Sweden's largest family business in the food sector has installed a vision system to inspect the production of different varieties of pizzas that it is marketing under a common brand "Billy".
Gunnar Dafgard, Sweden's largest family business in the food sector has installed vision from Cognex in order to inspect the production of different varieties of pizzas that it is marketing under a common brand "Billy" The production is ongoing in the largest pizza bakery in Sweden, located outside Lidkoping in West Sweden
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Mar 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Every day 110,000 units of Billy's pan-pizza are manufactured and distributed frozen, to food services and to retail outlets in Sweden and beyond.
Dafgard has a long track record of automation and using robots in the food-production.
The first vision-application was installed five years ago.
Dafgard has been going from manual to automated inspection in its pizza bakery.
The previous manual inspection was made under complicated circumstances with random sampling that made it difficult for the company to secure a systematic quality control of the production on the pizza line.
The vision system from Cognex with In-Sight vision sensors inspects the position of the pizzas on the production line so the look, size and form of the pizzas are correct.
"Our use of the vision system for automatic inspection is an integrated part of the work for improved quality and a better working environment for the employees on the pizza line".
"Cognex was chosen based on the fact that Cognex have in-depth knowledge of the food industry worldwide", says Ove Rydberg Project Leader at Dafgards.
The vision system was installed by a Cognex' Partner System Integrator, AVT Industriteknik.
AVT also developed a user friendly interface which made it possible for the employees on the pizza line to make choices of different vision applications and make adjustments of the vision program without specific technical skills. Request a free brochure from Cognex UK ...
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