Camera quality inspection

Camera quality inspection of every piece, right on the line

Camera quality inspection from Robopipe: a sealed camera over your belt checks every piece that passes under it. You catch a bad piece at once, not in a customer complaint.

Camera quality inspection

What camera quality inspection is

Camera quality inspection means a camera and an inference unit judge each product on the line instead of a person. The camera captures every piece. A model checks whether the piece matches the reference. The verdict then goes to the operator display, to the reject mechanism or to your systems.

Spot-checking every tenth piece keeps the line at speed, but defects slip through by the batch. Checking every piece by hand means more people on the line. A camera does not have to make that trade-off. At 3,600 pieces per hour it judges each product within 50 milliseconds.

Hardware built for the factory floor

  • IP67 camera. It is fully sealed, so it handles steam, pressure washing, dust and freezer cold. You wash it down with the rest of the floor during sanitation.
  • Images in line with the line. The 12 MP camera captures on an encoder pulse, a light barrier or a fixed frame rate.
  • Inference at the line. The AI PLC controller decides on every piece. It has analogue and digital I/O, RS485/RS232, Modbus and EtherCAT over Ethernet.
  • Connected to your machines. The verdict fires your existing reject mechanism or signal beacon. The line does not slow down and gets no extra mechanical step.

How Robopipe does it

We mount the camera over your existing belt and commission it on site, also in wet, cold or dusty operations. You add new products yourself. Capture a few good pieces, confirm what a good piece looks like and inspection starts. You do not need data scientists.

Operators see how today's batch runs on the floor display: piece counts, OK share, top defects, downtime and takt. When the pass rate starts to fall, the team sees it while the cause can still be fixed. Managers follow trends in the analytics portal.

The camera and the controller come with every paid plan as a rental. Start with one camera and add more whenever you want.

The camera sees, the model decides

A deep-learning model decides what is in the image. The home page shows how AI quality inspection works from image to verdict. For a general introduction to machine vision and computer vision, see the guide to vision systems.

Visual quality inspection by task

A camera system for production inspection solves a different task on every site. Optical quality inspection from Robopipe always uses the same industrial AI camera and the same rollout. Automated visual inspection of products differs only in what the model looks for in the image.

Defect detection on the production line: the camera finds a surface defect, a shape error or a foreign object in the pack.

Part counting with a camera: the camera counts the pieces in every pack and saves an image of every check.

Label inspection: the camera checks that the label is present and in position and that the batch code is legible, and reads the best-before date.

Packaging completeness inspection: the camera checks that nothing is missing from the pack and nothing extra is in it.

From mounting to the first check in one day

No integrators, no long projects.

1
We mount the camera

We come to your site and mount the sealed camera over the line, also in wet, cold or dusty operations.

2
You add your product

Capture a set of images, label them and train the model. A wizard guides you from start to finish.

3
You check every piece

Operators see the verdict for every piece on the floor display, managers see trends in the analytics portal.

< 1 day
to the first check
IP67
rated for wet operations
50 ms
to judge a piece

Camera inspection in production

How much camera quality inspection costs

Paid plans have one monthly price per camera. The camera and the control unit are included in it.

Open source

Run Robopipe yourself on your own infrastructure.

Free

Your own hardware · community support

View on GitHub
  • Full pipeline: capture, train and run
  • Runs on Raspberry Pi
  • Community support on GitHub

Standard

Prove it on one camera before you scale.

€390/ camera / month
Get started
  • Industrial-grade IP67 camera included
  • Unlimited cameras & products
  • Self-service product setup in studio app
  • Real-time production floor dashboard that works on any tablet
  • 5 model trainings per month
  • Email support

Pro

Most popular

Full quality control across your busiest operations.

€590/ camera / month
Book a demo
  • Everything in Standard and
  • Advanced analytics
  • Automatic AI image annotation
  • Unlimited model trainings
  • PLC with digital outputs, RS485, EtherCAT & Modbus
  • On-site install & operator training
  • Post-install service & priority support

Enterprise

Multi-site rollouts wired into your systems.

Custom

Volume pricing · dedicated success manager

Talk to sales
  • Everything in Pro and
  • ERP & MES integration
  • Custom models & tailored hardware
  • SLA

Camera quality inspection FAQ

Does the camera survive sanitation and pressure washing?

Yes. The camera is IP67 rated and fully sealed. It handles steam, pressure washing, dust and freezer cold.

Does camera inspection slow the line down?

No. The camera mounts over your existing belt and judges every piece within 50 milliseconds. The line needs no extra mechanical step.

How does a bad piece get off the line?

The AI PLC controller fires your existing reject mechanism or signal beacon. It can also send the verdict to your PLC over Modbus or EtherCAT.

Do we have to buy the camera?

No. The IP67 camera and the AI PLC controller come with every paid plan as a rental. You do not buy the hardware separately.

Does inspection work without internet?

Yes. The model judges images on the controller at the line, so inspection also works offline.

Try camera inspection on your own products.

Book a 30-minute demo and we will walk through what inspection would look like on your line.