Vision systems offer nearly unlimited potential, including quality control, material sorting and product identification.
Tri One leverages advanced lighting techniques in its solutions. After all, smart cameras need smart lighting.
Beyond efficiency, our solutions mitigate risk and prevent recalls. Let us help make your business case for implementation.
Cost Justification from Modernization.
Machine vision systems are a common component of line modernization projects. Whether implementing an automated inspection system to address customer concerns or to proactively reduce defects on a complex assembly line, a vision inspection application can provide business intelligence up the chain, from the operator to the boardroom.
What is the rate of product assembly? What is the defect count in absolute and percentage? How quickly are problems identified and turned around? If it's not being measured, it's not being improved upon.
Cost Justification from Labor Savings.
Labor savings can be an easy argument to make. Given just two or three shifts, typical machine vision systems have paid for themselves within a year or less! We like to see bodies used in better locations. Rather than have humans manually inspecting each product, they can put their skills to use at a higher level, designing scalable improvements based on the intelligence provided by the inspection system.
Cost Justification from Warranty Avoidance.
By leveraging machine vision to quickly and reliably address product defects at the point of production, recalls and warranty claims can be slashed, if not eliminated. In our work with a top, global food manufacturer, no incidents of product recalls occurred after our implementation of a vision system. Not only are there savings related to recall communications and damage control, there are significant shipping and distribution costs saved, not to mention customer goodwill that is spared.
Checklist for Comprehensive Justification Development.
Nello Zuech has provided a comprehensive checklist to guide the development of machine vision cost justification:
- > How many pieces are produced per month and on how many lines?
- > How much time is currently spent inspecting each piece? What is the inspection labor rate?
- > How many rejects occur per month on average? What is the value of a reject? Raw material?
- > What is the percent of rejects that are reworked each month? How much time is spent in reject rework? Rework labor rate?
- > What are the monthly scrap disposal costs?
- > Can improved customer satisfaction be quantified?
- > Will decreased scrap increase usable inventory storage space? What is that worth?
The Standard for Modern Industry.
Vision systems have become an integral part of modern industry. Installations continue to increase, and costs continue to decrease. From improving quality to containing costs to automated intelligence gathering, machine vision systems offer a spectrum of solutions to known and unknown problems. We invite you to read more about solutions we've put into effect and to contact us to help you get your vision system and take your business to a new level.
Machine vision in Packaging.
Using geometric tools and relational algorithms, a vision system is ensuring a steady application of glue for assembling packaging containers. The system dynamically supports a wide variety of box sizes and configuration options without any input concerning the variation being inspected.
Carton Validation
With pattern matching technology, the cartons used to package frozen food are inspected to ensure that the correctly labeled carton is used for the food product. This process is critical to ensure no allergens are mislabeled. An incorrect or damaged carton will cause the line to stop production.