Food and Beverage Industry

Production and quality inspection with efficient processes

Strict legal requirements, rising raw material and energy prices, and constantly changing consumer behavior: food manufacturers must become increasingly flexible while controlling costs. Our vision solutions support the production and quality inspection of food, ensuring the required food quality and high efficiency of the production process.

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Vision technology for food and bottle inspection

  • Availability & reliable delivery

    Stable supply chains ensure long-term availability of our products and prevent production downtime

  • High performance & speed

    Innovative, high-performance camera technology for state-of-the-art production methods

  • Durable & reliable

    With the lowest failure rate in the industry, our camera systems stand for reliability in 24/7 operation

  • Durable & robust

    Durable, shock-resistant cameras with optional IP67 housing are designed for rugged, shock-resistant, and waterproof performance

Typical fields of application in the food and beverage industry

From food detection, bottle inspection, and fill level control to packaging inspection: our vision solutions cover a wide range of applications.

Food inspection

Applications for camera systems include the detection of foreign objects, quality analysis, checking for completeness and integrity, and inspecting packaging. They also provide support in sorting and classification, barcode reading, label inspection, and robotics.

Food processing

Our cameras are used to support many tasks in food processing: peeling asparagus, sorting potatoes (e.g. by size, sorting out stones), sorting fruits (unripe, size, etc.), meat and fish processing (filleting, separation, evisceration), etc.

Bottle inspection

Vision systems also ensure quality in the production of beverages: they inspect caps, bottle tops, fill levels, and note cracks and material defects. Beyond these functions, imaging supports sorting and classification processes and code reading.

Use cases in the food and beverage industry

Take a look at our solutions and see how they can be used for a wide range of applications.

  • Fill level control with an ace 2 X visSWIR camera

    Fill level control with pylon vTools software

    Correct fill levels for bottles are considered a quality feature. Combining classic algorithms that can measure and read the "edge" of the water level with a simple image processing pipeline ensures successful quality control.

    • Measuring
    • Food & beverage industry
    • Pharma

    3D Vision-guided Robotics with blaze ToF

    KINE Robotics relies on the blaze 3D ToF camera to build an automated and cost-effective conveyor tracking system.e

    • 3D technology
    • Robotics
    • Food & beverage industry
    AI and 3D vision for fruit sorting

    KI and 3D Vision for Fruit Sorting

    Fruit Recognition and Classification: Deep Learning Software Meets the Basler blaze Time-of-Flight Camera.

    • 3D technology
    • Measuring
    • Classification
    • Food & beverage industry

Most popular products

For efficient and reliable machine vision applications in this industry, the following Basler products are often the best choice:

  • Basler ace 2

    Basler ace 2 area scan camera

    The compact ace 2 convinces with a large selection of sensors and interfaces as well as optimal handling and image quality. Thanks to its versatility, it is the right camera for a wide variety of applications.

  • ace 2 X visSWIR camera

    ace 2 X visSWIR

    The compact and affordable visSWIR cameras impress with their high image quality thanks to special firmware features. They generate images in the visible and short-wave infrared spectrum.

  • boost CXP-12 area scan cameras

    Basler boost area scan camera

    The Basler boost camera series combines the latest CMOS sensor technology with high bandwidths and all the other advantages of the CoaXPress 2.0 standard.

  • Basler dart

    Basler dart area scan camera

    The dart camera is a compact camera module suitable for factory and embedded applications. It is available as a bare board variant, with S- and CS-mounts.

  • Basler ToF Camera

    Basler ToF 3D Camera

    Precise 3D images in real time thanks to Sony's DepthSense™ sensor and integrated depth image processing. Available in 850 nm or 940 nm wavelengths.

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