PHARMACEUTICALS


Cognex’s vision technology is used widely throughout the pharmaceutical industry for pill sorting, verifying barcodes on vials, inspecting bottles and inspecting syringe seals


machine) inspect them for cracks and scratches.” Luu says that for applications like this, as well as label inspection and code reading, the company’s Ethernet- based products such as the 1GigE and 5GigE Alvium cameras are popular. Offering standardised interfaces that are user-friendly and easy to install, these cameras boast high framerates, meaning fast inspection with high throughput. Allied Vision also provides useful firmware features like custom convolution filters or a colour transformation matrix. “Tese enable high image contrast for edge detection, which again is crucial for reliable inspection of pharma products,” adds Luu.


Goodbye tedious and time-consuming tasks With these and many more vision systems embedded in pharmaceutical operations around the world, they are now providing an automated, reliable and objective means to inspect and analyse a wide range of pharmaceutical products, while also offering data analysis capabilities to expedite drug discovery, a relatively cheap and less error-prone way of optimising manufacturing processes, end-to-end visibility through the supply chain, and rapid verification of drug authenticity. Tis has meant that tasks traditionally


only entrusted to humans are being increasingly taken up by machine vision systems. A good example comes from Zhu: contact lens inspection, required to verify that there are no embedded particles, inclusions or contamination on the contact lens that could present a hazard to the


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