Vision · Quality
Modernising a sorting and quality-control station
Illustrative project for an SME seeking to replace manual visual inspection with a more repeatable and traceable sorting station.
Illustrative use case
Context
Starting point
Inspection relies on operator attention. Criteria are known, but their application varies with speed, fatigue and defect type.
Problem
What needs to improve
- Inspection variability
- Cost of a dedicated manual inspection station
- Limited traceability of rejection causes
- Need to increase throughput without reducing quality
Possible architecture
A solution to validate with the site
- Study product presentation and lighting
- Industrial vision against criteria defined with the client
- Conveying / guidance for stable inspection
- Automatic rejection and defect counting
- Operator interface for recipes and statistics
Illustrative use case — architecture and results must be confirmed using real site data and representative products.
Key point
Run simple tests before freezing the architecture.
- Use representative good and bad samples
- Check lighting and speed sensitivity
- Define reject and traceability logic