Adept Turnkey at NMW16

We were pleased and proud to showcase our latest projects as well as our newest products at last month’s National Manufacturing Week Exhibition, billed as Australia’s largest platform for manufacturing innovation, information and inspiration.

For us, NMW provides many openings not only to demonstrate our expertise but also, and more importantly, to gain feedback and requirements from our clients. These events are exceptionally valuable to us for those reasons.

We thank all those who visited our stand. If you did not have the time to visit, we welcome your contact and look forward to seeing you at NMW17

INSPECTIONS - labels
Teledyne DALSA
BOA Pro and BOA Spot

Detecting defects on labels using a high-speed BOA Smart camera

Products travelling at high speed on a conveyor belt. Their labels are inspected by the Teledyne Dalsa BOA Smart cameras in order to detect incorrectly applied labels.

Damaged/illegible label

We purposely defaced a label. The system identified the fault

We used a 10-item-per-second inspection rate but the system can be made to inspect at much faster rates

The advantage of the BOA is that the system is self-contained - all processing is carried out on-board. They are suitable for compact systems and eliminate the need for a computer. Cameras are IP-rated.

The BOA Spot is a more cost effective model and can be fitted with on-board lighting.

A cloth weave material manufactured in a continuous length (we call this a web) was inspected by a Teledyne Dalsa Piranha line scan camera to demonstrate the very-fine-detail capture of a high-res image using a cost-effective camera. The weave can then be inspected for defects. This technology is applicable not only to cloth weave but to any products that is made in a continuous web e.g. paper, plastic, steel, printing .....

The Piranha linescan colour camera produced an image 8000 pixels wide.

Teledyne Dalsa linescan cameras are designed specifically for hi-res imaging for web-based inspections.

It is very cost-effective especially when high-resolution is needed to capture tiny defects.

This demonstration was aimed at showing how 3D data can be collected and inspected.

A section of car tyre with embossed characters the same colour as the tyre was scanned. The embossed characters ar quite difficult to read and a 3D camera allows the camera to detect the height change due to the embossing. The resultant surface scan produced 3D-relief data which can then be processed and the characters read easily.

The LMI Gocator 3D profile sensor provides an easy-to-use online 3D inspection system for applications needing X,Y and Z-measurement.

Software tools are built in to the Gocator smart camera and all processing is done on board. This very robust sensor is able to detect down to tens-of-µm-level and is easy to use.

Cylindrical items (bottles) on a conveyor belt were captured by 4 cameras positioned at 90 degree intervals around the bottle. The cameras are triggered simultaneously as the bottle passes the inspection position on a conveyor belt. The resultant 4 images were processed, stitched together and flattened by the software to show one, entire, unrolled label in 2D and so allowing for conventional image analysis to be performed by quality control machine vision inspection software. The software looked for a barcode and decoded it; but other types of label inspections can also be undertaken.

This first-of-kind system in Australia using Halcon software and Adept Turnkey expertise, is ideal for complete 360-degree examination of labels, cans, etc without having to stop the conveyor system.