Inex Portfolio

Introduction

Starting July 2001
 Developed Inspect Range of Sensor based vision systems
 Re-designed existing Gemini system to reduce costs and allow more application flexibility
 Assisted Develop Sales and Marketing Strategies including pricing structures
 Launched new products at PMMI Las Vegas September 10th
 
Addressed internal processes to produce make-to-order systems
 Developed Soft-Reject and Case Reject systems

By Q3 2004
 200+ application enquiries
 ~50 In-house Demonstrations
 30 Gemini3 System Sales
 26 Inspect System Sales
 2 Custom System Sales
15 Application types sold (~$1.5M)

By Q1 2007
 Developed state-of-the-Art non-orientated label inspection system
 30 Gemini3D orders (~$3M)

Amelca

Vision System: Inspect 500

Inspection Station: Compact Side
  Lighting: Incident - Variable Color LED
  Optics: Parallax

Reject Type: Soft Reject System

 

Inspection of presence, height and color of caps on a plastic milk container.  All stainless steel construction.  Utilized variable color lighting (as part of job parameters) to easily distinguish between cap colors.

 

 

Label

Vision System: 20 x Gemini 3 with 2 -6 Cameras

Inspection Station:  Front & Back
  Lighting: Diffuse Strobe

Reject Type: Air or Ram Reject

Inspection of labels and thread detail on plastic bottles including some custom applications.
Customers include Graham Plastic, CCC, Exxon, Hersheys.

 

 

 

 

Tropicana

Vision System: Gemini 3 with 4 digital cameras

Inspection Station: Custom 80x20 style
  Lighting: Incident, Back, and Dark Field LED

Reject Type: Air Reject

 

Detection of plastic over-spill on translucent containers on all surfaces. 

 

 

 

Proctor & Gamble

Vision System: Inspect 100 with 1 camera

Inspection Station: Custom 80x20 style incorporated into existing equipment
            Lighting: Incident LED (Linear)

Reject Type: Interface to existing equipment

 

Detection of missing parts in loose packed carton

 

 

 

 

Roach Foods

Vision System: 2 x Inspect 100 with 2 cameras (1 color)

Inspection Station: Compact Overhead
            Lighting: Diffuse LED

Reject Type: Air Reject

Other Equipment: Bar code scanning

 

Label inspection including date and batch code OCV.  All SST construction of food certification

 

 

L'Oreal

Vision System: Inspect / Gemini 3 with ` camera

Inspection Station: Custom Inspection Mounting, incorporated into existing equipment

Reject Type: Interface into existing equipment

 

Highly irregular OCR on challenging surfaces.

General Mills

Vision System: 2 x Product Verification Systems with 5 Barcode scanners

Inspection Station: Product Verification

Reject Type: Air Reject

 

High level ControlLogix plant level inspection solution.  Multi-phase project; Phase 1 being 100% un-orientated bar-code verification

 

 

KW Plastics

Vision Systems:
6 x Inspect 100 with 2 cameras
2 x Inspect 100 with 1 cameras
4 x Inspect 100 with 4 cameras

Inspection Station: Compact Overhead and Side Combination
            Lighting: Incident (ring), and Back LED

Reject Type: upto 2 x Ram Reject each

Sorting and detection of molding defects
Defect and Dimensions of Closures
Seam Damage on cans

 

 

Key / SRC Vision

Vision System: 2 x Inspect 100 with 4 cameras

Inspection Station: Pack inspection station
            Lighting: Incident LED

Reject Type: High-speed Air Reject system

Project to design and build product in conjunction with a partner for the Chinese tobacco market.

 

 

 

 

Rockware Glass

Vision System: 2 x Inspect 100

Inspection Station: Side-wall
            Lighting: Back Fluorescent

Reject Type: Air Reject

Other Equipment: Bottle Orientation

Detailed detection in embossed area of high quality bottles. (as part of SV/Si2 order)

 

Graham Plastics

Vision System: Gemini 3 with 3 cameras

Inspection Station: Custom 80x20 style with high precision optics
            Lighting: Back and Incident LED

Reject Type: Air Reject

 

+/- .002 inspection accuracy on various neck measurements on plastic bottles

Bag-in-Box

Vision System: 4 x Inspect 100 with color camera

Inspection Station: Compact Overhead
            Lighting: Incident (Ring)

Reject Type: Interface to existing equipment

Optional Equipment: Ultrasonic Height Sensor

 Detection of correctly loaded wine bag.  Inspect was highly customized to customer specification (including shared AB ControlLogix).
Customers include Gallo Wine, The Wine Group.

 

 

Un-orientated Label

Vision System: Inex/Cognex with 4 high-resolution cameras

Inspection Station: C3D Inspection Station
            Lighting: Diffuse

Reject Type: soft reject system.

Revolutionary label inspection for un-orientated containers. 
Customers include Gallo Wine, Heinz, Casella, Modelo.

Introduction
Amelca
Label
Tropicana
Proctor & Gamble
Roach Foods
L'Oreal
General Mills
KW Plastics
Key/SRC
Rockware Glass
Graham Plastics
Bag-in-Box
Gemini 3D
 
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