 Automation
Machinery Solutions
We were told, "Manual
inspection is impossible with our faster line. How can we
automatically inspect and laser mark in one pass?"
The customer had several
high-speed lines where products needed an FDA lot code and
visual inspection before the filling station. Wastech Controls
was asked to design and build two inspection stations. In
addition to multiple container sizes and materials, each
container needed to be rotated 360º during inspection, laser marked with a lot code, and accepted or rejected. Technical
requirements included high-speed material handling, motion
control, machine vision, a diode-pumped YAG laser marking
system, color touch-screen HMI, data acquisition, and VFD motor
control.
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Automatic
material handling equipment |
Machine
vision inspection system |
Wastech worked with various
suppliers, including Cognex (the leading supplier of industrial
cameras and character recognition software), Lee laser, Allen
Bradley (AB) industrial computers and PLCs, AB operator
interface HMIs, AB motor controls, and Wastech stainless steel
fabrication and material handling.
Wastech engineers designed
these machines and wrote the control software to integrate
material handling, laser marking, and machine vision inspection.
Software include Visual Basic / C++ program development and PLC
programming to synchronize high-speed marking and inspection
operations.
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