Case studies

One of their factories uses cardboard boxes to package their products. These boxes are transported throughout the plant on numerous conveyors, some of which are difficult to access. During transport, some boxes may fall or end up in a non-compliant position (tilted, overturned, at the wrong angle, etc.). If these misaligned boxes are not detected in time, they can block the conveyor and sometimes force the company to completely shut down their production line, a procedure that can be very costly.

To address the situation, the company had installed a series of sensors along the conveyor to measure the height of the boxes and detect those that had fallen. However, this more rudimentary equipment was unable to recognize boxes that were simply tilted or positioned incorrectly. As a result, the method proved very imprecise and regularly required human intervention. An employee would be tasked with continuously monitoring all the surveillance cameras placed throughout the plant to confirm any anomalies.

The performance of the vision system is significantly superior to that of their previous system. Moreover, the company did not need to purchase any expensive new equipment: we simply connected to the existing infrastructure and made their cameras "smart," allowing them to save both time and money in the long run. The simplicity of this vision system also made it possible to deploy the solution quickly, in about one month in their case.