Avoiding Quality Control Disasters with Machine Vision

It is a critical aspect of quality assurance and food safety to identify a product at its origin and track and trace the forward movement through the entire process of the food supply chain, including food processing, filling, closure and packaging. To retrospectively identify where and when a problem may have occurred, and to date and time stamp the event, is a prerequisite. Machine vision (MV) is the technology to replace or complement manual inspections and measurements with digital cameras and image processing. The technology is used in a variety of different industries to automate the production processes, increase production speed and yield, and to improve product quality.