Spookfish Innovations solve complex manufacturing challenges using cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning techniques. Snipe is an online heat seal inspection system that retrofits onto existing packaging lines. Poor induction seal quality remains a serious concern in the FMCG industry. Sub-standard seals can compromise product integrity, lead to spillages later in the production process and even cause major public health risks. Using the latest in high resolution thermal technology, Snipe accurately detects any areas of potential leakage or damage to a seal, verifying the integrity of the packaging and rejecting any defective products.

     Spookfish Innovations solve complex manufacturing challenges using cutting-edge computer vision and machine learning techniques. Snipe is an online heat seal inspection system that retrofits onto existing packaging lines. Poor induction seal quality remains a serious concern in the FMCG industry. Sub-standard seals can compromise product integrity, lead to spillages later in the production process and even cause major public health risks. Using the latest in high resolution thermal technology, Snipe accurately detects any areas of potential leakage or damage to a seal, verifying the integrity of the packaging and rejecting any defective products.

1. FMCG

     Automated quality control in the fast moving consumer good industry is critical in ensuring product safety, consistency and traceablility. In particular, issues with packaging during production can not only impact the integrity of the product, but also spillages or even serious public health risks further down the line.

     With major advancements in the field of computer vision and camera hardware, automated visual inspection systems are now capable of solving even the most complex problems in production, with high levels of both precision and speed.

MILK and DIARY

How can Snipe help you?

     SNIPE is a high-speed and robust inspection system that is retrofitted onto a packaging lines to verify the integrity of bottle seals. Snipe employs precision vision technology and intuitive software. SNIPE is both minimalist and cost-effective.

  • High-resolution 100% thermal inspection
  • Compact and accessible
  • High precision and speed, inspecting up to 300 bottles per minute!
  • Automated system calibration
  • Inline rejection system
  • Real-time/ archived statistics and analysis
  • Remote operation

Why are Heat Seals significant to the milk and dairy industry?

     Many products within the milk and dairy industry require heat seals to ensure the integrity of products since heat seals guarantee safety, quality, freshness and that the product doesn’t degrade or become contaminated. Yet currently, seal integrity inspections are limited to random sampling with manual spot checks. Although helpful, these checks are very inefficient in terms of resources, cost, and time.

A failed heat seal can lead to:

  1. Delays in the production line and severe wastage of produce and packaging
  2. Market complaints and non-conformances concerning the product quality
  3. Damaged caps lead to contamination and reduced potency of the product
  4. Recalls and poor feedback from clients or end-users

GOOD SEAL 

MISSING WAD

PARTIAL SEAL

BURNT SEAL

     SNIPE ensures problems that arise during the heat seal process are flagged immediately, rather than at the end of the shift or later in the manufacturing process. Thereby reducing the cost to rectify the damage, potential recalls, and negative feedback due to sealing issues.

     Are you facing any heat seal issues on your production line that you haven’t found a suitable solution for yet? If so, please get in touch with us to see if we can help you.

FROZEN FOOD

How can Snipe help you?

     SNIPE is a high-speed and robust inspection system that is retrofitted onto a packaging lines to verify the integrity of bottle seals. Snipe employs precision vision technology and intuitive software. SNIPE is both minimalist and cost-effective.

     By combining Spookfish’s expertise in both Machine Learning and Industrial Machine Vision, new product variants that have not been seen before by the system can be trained rapidly. This is a feature that is simply not achievable using traditional machine vision methods. As a result, over the past year, Snipe has been used for verification on a huge number of different products including pillow bags, commonly used in frozen food packaging for distribution to consumers.

How can Snipe help you?

     SNIPE is a high-speed and robust inspection system that is retrofitted onto a packaging lines to verify the integrity of bottle seals. Snipe employs precision vision technology and intuitive software. SNIPE is both minimalist and cost-effective.

     By combining Spookfish’s expertise in both Machine Learning and Industrial Machine Vision, new product variants that have not been seen before by the system can be trained rapidly. This is a feature that is simply not achievable using traditional machine vision methods. As a result, over the past year, Snipe has been used for verification on a huge number of different products including pillow bags, commonly used in frozen food packaging for distribution to consumers.

     Heat seals are hugely critical in the food and beverage industry for ensuring the integrity of a wide range of products because they ensure the produce doesn’t degrade or become contaminated.

     Yet currently, seal integrity inspections are limited to random sampling with manual spot checks. Although helpful, these checks are very inefficient in terms of resources, cost and time. Furthermore, limited heat seal inspections can lead to product recalls and poor feedback from clients. This can ultimately tarnish the brand name and even attract regulators’ fines.

     The pillow bags generally have one back seal (vertical) as well as a top and bottom seal (horizontal). It is vital that all seals are completely sealed given a single break in the seal can compromise the entire contents of the bag.

     Snipe ensures problems that arise during the heat seal process are flagged immediately, rather than at the end of the shift or later in the manufacturing process. This reduces the cost to rectify the damage, potential recalls, and negative feedback due to sealing issues.

     The pillow bags generally have one back seal (vertical) as well as a top and bottom seal (horizontal). It is vital that all seals are completely sealed given a single break in the seal can compromise the entire contents of the bag.

     Snipe ensures problems that arise during the heat seal process are flagged immediately, rather than at the end of the shift or later in the manufacturing process. This reduces the cost to rectify the damage, potential recalls, and negative feedback due to sealing issues.

     Spookfish are experts at retrofitting intelligent vision systems onto existing production lines, as this provides flexibility for the end customer. The images to the right show how the thermal system can be positioned inline with a view of passing and rejecting good and poor heat seals respectively.

     Are you facing any heat seal issues on your production line that you haven’t found a suitable solution for yet? If so, please get in touch with us to see if we can help you.

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2. Pharmaceutical

     When it comes to quality control, the pharmaceutical industry has led the way in terms of product consistency, reliability and traceability. Strict requirements on quality and safety has driven the demand for complete control and transparency across the entire production process, from formulation and manufacturing, to packaging and labelling.

     With major advancements in the field of computer vision and camera hardware, automated visual inspection systems are now capable of solving even the most complex problems in production, with high levels of both precision and speed.

     These solutions are now an essential part of the quality control process, minimising the chances of human error, and enabling swift and accurate detection and removal of defective products.

Product for PHARMA sector

SNIPE

  • High-resolution 100% thermal inspection
  • Compact and accessible
  • High precision and speed, inspecting up to 300 bottles per minute!
  • Automated system calibration
  • Inline rejection system
  • Real-time/ archived statistics and analysis
  • Remote operation

     Marlin is an online tablet inspection system, retrofitted to a wide range of existing bottle filling lines with minimal alterations to the existing setup.

     Most tablet and capsule production lines include some form of visual inspection prior to loading onto a counter (either manual or automatic). However, defective products and foreign objects can make their way onto the counter during handling/loading and although rare, the impact to the business if undetected is critical.

     The high speed cameras and customized software is capable of accurately detecting inconsistencies in tablet colour, shape and size, removing defective products via a custom-built rejection mechanism. The system can be configured to reject individual products or bottles.

     Marlin has been tested and approved for use in live production environments using a wide range of variants including transparent capsules.

  • Minimalist retrofit design
  • High speed and high precision
  • Automated system calibration
  • Customized rejection mechanism
  • Adapts to dusty environments
  • Self cleaning cameras
  • Real-time/Archived statistics and analysis

Accurate detection and Rejection of the Following Defects

3. AUTOMATION

     The market for computer vision applications within the manufacturing sector has risen significantly in recent years.

     This has been driven largely by increases in both wages and the demand for higher quality products. With the emergence of exciting new AI techniques such as deep learning in combination with the falling cost of camera hardware, vision-based applications present increasingly attractive solutions to these demands.

     At Spookfish, we believe it’s vital to capitalise on this trend, integrating the latest software techniques and hardware innovations into every product.

MICROPS C

The Next Generation of Coin Classification and Sorting

     An automated, stand-alone and lightweight visual inspection machine for both classification and sorting of minted coins including circulation and commemorative coins, as well as medals.

     A number of deep learning and enhanced pattern matching techniques are used to classify the coins, including but not limited to: alloy, currency, denomination and feature (for example year, mint mark or design).

     While employing precision technology and highly autonomous operation, Microps C remains both minimalistic and cost-effective.

  • High speed and high accuracy
  • Dual-sided classification of each coin using machine learning technology
  • Automated system calibration (60 seconds)
  • Flexible and remote operation
  • Pneumatic rejection system
  • Self cleaning cameras
  • Real-time/Archived statistics and analysis

MICROPS X

STAND ALONE BLANK AND MINTED COIN INSPECTION

     Microps X is a stand-alone blank and minted coin inspection solution, scanning up to 3,000 coins per minute to an accuracy of up to 30 microns.

     Concurrent inspection of both sides of the coin enables top and bottom mint alignment verification, in addition to the standard quality checks.

DEFECT

  • Mint alignment verification (top and bottom side)
  • Compact and accessible design
  • High speed and precision
  • Automated system calibration
  • Pneumatic rejection system
  • Self cleaning cameras
  • Remote operation
  • Real-time/Archived statistics and analysis

HARLEQUIN

INFRARED FEVER SCREENING TECHNOLOGY

     Harlequin uses infrared (IR) camera based thermography to precisely correlate core body temperature, providing a fast, non-invasive, and non-contact method of screening individuals at risk of infection.

     A fever is the body’s natural response to fighting infections such as Covid-19, and in-depth research has shown that infrared (IR) camera based thermography can effectively be used to detect elevated body temperatures.

     Since the Covid-19 outbreak, significant time and resources have been invested in the development of screening technology to provide an additional safety measure to help keep the general public safe, and contain the spread of the virus.

     arlequin precisely measures the temperature at the corner of the eyes, as this yields the closest correlation to core body temperature. Other methods of mass fever screening such as infrared (IR) temperature guns, contact thermometry and self-reporting health declarations are questionable in terms of effectiveness.

     The technology can be deployed in most locations but primarily expected to be used in factories, offices, airports, seaports, universities and sports venues.

DISCUS

WELD BEAD DETECTION ON WHEEL RIMS

     Discus is a automated vision solution that accurately detects the angular position of a weld bead on a wheel rim in under 40ms.

     During the manufacture of wheel rims, the location of the weld bead is used to select the position of the valve hole. The placement of this hole must be extremely accurate in order to avoid subsequent issues in both production and testing.

     In partnership with ABB Robotics, Spookfish offers an automated solution which swiftly and accurately locates the weld bead on wheel rims, allowing the valve hole to be drilled in the correct position.

     The system is compatible with a wide range of wheel sizes, and can increase productivity by up to 6 times.

     Using robust pre-processing algorithm, Discus is capable of continuous 24 hours a day operation, and is even tolerant to significant environment and ambient changes. Trend charts and predictive analysis are also generated to inform the operators and increase fault tolerance.

  • High speed and high precision
  • Continuous and robust operation
  • Compatible with all major rim sizes and types
  • Integrated into existing lines
  • Real-time/Archived statistics
  • Trend charts and predictive analysis

CLARION

ONLINE COLOR VERIFICATION FOR PROCESSED MATERIALS

     Clarion is an online inspection solution that verifies colour in continuously processed materials such as paper, cardboard or textiles.

     During the manufacture of many processed materials, a consistent and precise colour is often a strict requirement. Most solutions on the market verify samples offline at intervals throughout production. However, this can result in both a significant loss in yield if defective samples are found, and also presents a risk of defective products between samples.

     Spookfish has developed an online colour inspection solution that offers continuous colour verification during production. This not only increases the sample rate of colour verification by over 50,000 times, but also maintains a high level of accuracy when compared with the controlled offline systems.

     The system alerts the operator as soon as an issue is detected so that corrective action can be taken immediately, resulting in both less downtime and overall defective output.

     Clarion can also integrate with existing systems in order to automate the production workflow. For example, in production of paper, coating control parameters can be automatically adjusted according to the colour detected, without input from the operator. As well as increasing the efficiency of the overall process, this also reduces the chances of human error.

  • High speed and high precision
  • Continuous and robust operation
  • Integration onto existing lines
  • Real-time/Archived statistics

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