Defect detection from Robopipe: a camera over the belt checks every piece and shows a defective piece to the operator before it leaves the line.
Camera defect detection watches for what a person at the belt would otherwise have to see. The camera takes an image of every piece and the model decides whether the piece matches a good sample. Typical tasks from sites where Robopipe runs:
A deep-learning model decides about every piece. The model learns from images of your good and defective pieces. Nobody writes rules for each defect. When a new kind of defect appears, you add images and retrain the model.
Defect detection is part of machine vision. The guide to machine vision explains what that means and how it differs from computer vision. The camera quality inspection page describes the camera, the control unit and the rollout.
Operators see the verdict for every piece on a display on the floor. The control unit can trigger your existing reject unit or signal light, so the defective piece leaves the line at once. An image of every piece stays in the archive, so you can trace a defect later.
Production managers follow the most common defects and the share of OK pieces in the analytics portal. The article Cut reject rates without slowing production shows how live inspection helps.
When the defect is a missing or extra part in the pack, it is a task for packaging completeness inspection.
Food processingCrocodille produces fresh sandwiches and baguettes at 3,600 pieces per hour per line. Installing the camera raised production quality itself: operators see the quality of their work in real time on the floor display, and they are evaluated on it. We showed the team how to label one product; every product since, they've added themselves.
Food processingCustomers return products that aren't 100%. Manual quality checks are expensive and still miss things. Robopipe inspects every pack: seal tightness, beans properly wrapped in bacon, and no foreign objects inside the packaging.
You add images of the new defect and retrain the model. The Standard plan has 5 model trainings a month, the Pro and Enterprise plans have no limit.
No. The camera mounts over your existing belt and the line needs no extra mechanical step. The camera quality inspection page gives the inspection speed.
Images of good and defective pieces from your line. You take them with the camera, label them in the Studio app and train the model. A wizard guides you from start to finish.
Yes. The camera is IP67 rated and fully sealed. It withstands steam, pressure washing, dust and the cold of a chiller.
Book a 30-minute demo and we will go through the defects the camera would look for on your line.
