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Industry Application

Machine Vision For Printing Labels and Packaging

Continuous web and discrete pack inspection where print quality, label presence and box integrity all have to be judged at line speed.

Industry Pain Points

Why These Parts Are Hard To Image

  • Printed webs run fast, so illumination has to be bright enough for very short exposure times.
  • Registration marks and characters sit on backgrounds that change colour from job to job.
  • Package boxes and bags are matte, glossy and creased across the same field of view.
  • Label defects are small relative to the pack, so resolution cannot be traded for coverage.

Customer Requirements

Published Inspection Tasks

  • Printing labels inspection and package box defects inspection
  • Printing material defects inspection
  • Label inspection
  • Package damage inspection
  • Package, surface inspection
  • Packaging inspection
  • Surface inspection of packing bag and film
  • Tobacco package box quality inspection.
  • Character defects inspection
  • Tape damage inspection

Solution Process

How A Project Runs From Enquiry To Delivery

Send The Part And The Target

A photo of the part, the defect you need to catch, the field of view and the line speed.

Lighting And Optics Proposal

Our design engineers propose a lighting geometry, a lens format and a camera that hold together as one chain.

Sample Or Custom Build

Standard parts ship from catalogue. Custom lighting samples are normally provided within 10 working days.

Validation On Your Part

You prove the image on the real part. Where the geometry needs changing, the design is revised before volume.

Supply And Repeat Orders

Once the model is fixed, repeat orders reference the same model number and the same imaging result.

Delivery Capability

What We Commit To

  • More than 20 experienced customized design engineers for lighting and optics design.
  • Most customised products provided within two weeks.
  • Urgent customised demand shortened to around five days.
  • Customised lighting samples normally provided within 10 working days.
  • Most focal lenses shipped within three days.
  • Lending samples for test available on the telecentric line scan lens range.

Every figure above is taken from published SBS Vision material.

FAQ

Printing Labels and Packaging FAQ

Which component range matters most for printing labels and packaging
Lighting usually decides whether the defect is visible at all, so it is the first thing to fix. The relevant ranges for this industry are led machine vision lights, line scan lenses, led light controllers.
Are these applications published or estimated
Published. Every task in the application list on this page is taken from the application notes for a specific SBS Vision product series.
Can the lighting be designed for our exact part
Yes. More than 20 lighting and optics design engineers work on customised builds. Most custom products are provided within two weeks and samples of customised lighting within 10 working days.
How do I start
Send a photo of the part and one sentence describing the defect through WhatsApp or email. A lighting geometry suggestion normally comes back on the same thread.

Send Us A Part From Your Line

One photo and one sentence about the defect is usually enough to get a lighting geometry suggestion back.

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