Case Study: Beverage Container Providing Company achieves 99.9%+ barcode and character identification at 7 units/sec with Advantech's PC-based automated vision inspection

Automatic Vision Inspection Solution for Product Traceability in Food & Beverage Industry

The Beverage Container Providing Company needed to reliably read bar codes, data codes and printed characters on ink-jet labels at a production rate of 7 units per second with better than 99.9% correctness. With limited engineering staff and a strong industry focus on traceability and rapid recalls, they engaged Advantech to provide an easy-to-use, robust inspection solution.

Advantech supplied a PC-based, multi-camera automated optical identification system built around the AIS-1240 4‑CH PoE vision system (Intel® Core™ i7), Inspector Express graphical machine-vision software, and QCAM‑GM0640‑120CE PoE industrial cameras. The deployment met the 7 units/sec throughput and >99.9% identification accuracy target, simplified installation and maintenance via PoE, reduced reliance on factory engineers, and strengthened product traceability for faster, more precise recall capability.