How Bakers Can Use Vision Technology To Predict The Future Of Their Business

Food makers worldwide must guarantee quality requirements are met, whether they have one or dozens of manufacturing locations.

FREMONT, CA: As food manufacturers look to increase automation and data usage in their manufacturing facilities, enabling long-term cost savings and product quality improvements, vision technology solutions can assist them in addressing each step of the process and implementing quality control and production automation solutions. Manufacturers of vision technology solutions characterize and quantify the physical properties of items to ensure consistency from one to the next. These technologies are perfect for wholesale bakers, whether they produce bread and baguettes or cookies and crackers, and they frequently provide the product brand with a competitive edge.

High-resolution cameras, LED lighting, and complex computer algorithms and software combine to form an ideal platform for examining food goods. As a result, manufacturers are being pushed to save expenses and waste while maintaining high consistency and quality in their final interests. Vision systems enable this by doing a complete inspection, gathering vital data, and instantly interpreting it.

Effective automation: Automated vision inspection solutions, which are fundamentally image-based examinations of moving objects within a field of view, are powered by software that generates mathematical conclusions in engineering units. These systems provide objective, useful, and actionable measurements at full line speed in a manufacturing environment. The technique is used to do computations consistently and reliably that are nearly hard to perform manually and can offer vital measurements for dimensions (shape; volume), color, quantity, estimated weight, patterns, thermal characteristics, and productivity.

With a single system, virtually any visual or thermal feature with a single system may be accurately monitored and quantified. Additionally, numerous measurements are taken concurrently within a second to ensure 100 percent scrutiny.

Dashboards provide operators with a fast snapshot of measurements on more complex systems, while full analytics and feedback loops—to influence process controls and variables like oven temperature and line speed—are accessible.

Distributed vision systems: Additionally, vision system modules can be built and implemented to monitor a particular manufacturing process. Measurements taken at each vision module at each point along the line can be gathered, displayed, and reported in real-time at the control station. Additionally, this data can be added to a database, allowing further analysis and correlation to improve the manufacturing process and the completed product's quality.