In-Sight 5603 inspects serum vials at high speed

IPF Ingenieria is using the Cognex In-Sight 5603 in vial-inspection machines that detect serum impurities down to one square-millimetre.

IPF Ingenieria, which is based in Barcelona, makes machines destined for high-profile industrial customers.

IPF sold Fresenius Kabi a machine equipped with the In-Sight 5603 vision system to allow it to inspect small vials of serum.

In this application, In-Sight cameras inspected for impurities and liquid-levels in the vials of serum at a speed of 10,000 bottles an hour.

The application demanded high-resolution vision to eliminate impurities.

Each blister pack contains five vials of serum.

Two machines are equipped with two In-Sight cameras.

The vials pass along a conveyor where they are inspected by the cameras.

In-Sight uses Patmax, the powerful Cognex vision tool, for part finding and localisation, to locate the units of serum so each individual vial can be inspected for impurities.

Any impurities detected result in the pack being rejected.

All inspected vials are sent for packaging.

The user-friendly development environment in In-Sight Explorer provides a convenient user-interface for programming vision tasks.

IPF plans to install three more vision-equipped machines at Fresenius Kabi this year.

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