Camera inspection system

automaticfor defect detectionfor the pharmaceutical industry

The PPS Camera Inspection System will detect chips, broken tablets, colour variation and wrong shape and sized tablets and capsules and will through integration with counter controls signal when a defect is detected. When defect is detected signal will allow either controlled passage to bottle and bottle rejection or counter pause and individual tablet removal, recheck and automatic restart. The vision system works in conjunction with the counters PC interface which features high speed quadcore processing with up to six colour GigE cameras with custom lighting designed for tablet inspection. Each camera covers 6 lanes and menu driven setup allows selection of product and recall of pre-saved product parameters and live image display provides production information and last failed image etc. System is integrated with counter software so that where a defective tablet is identified the counter will force the product into a known bottle and reject that bottle on discharge from the counting machine. Vision inspection now includes an automatic set up process which allows the good product to be placed in “field of view”, be selected and then the machine system will set all parameters automatically including length, width, area, circularity, colour as well as exposure, lighting and all other settings.