Vision technology for the food and beverage industry
As Europe's leading provider of machine vision technology and services STEMMER IMAGING has extensive experience working with world leading equipment manufacturers, systems integrators and end volume end users in many aspects of food production from automated harvesting, processing, sorting and portioning right through to validating the packaging and labels before shipment.
The need to manufacture products reliably and without faults is more important than ever in the food, beverage and packaging industries. The pressure to achieve this has led to extremely high levels of manufacturing automation in efficient production plants.
One of our industry specialists, Jörg Schmitz, Key Account Manager, Food Technology, answers three questions on the significance of vision technology in the food industry, about the special demands and the challenges.
STEMMER IMAGING is Europe's largest independent supplier of vision technology and services and your reliable partner regarding powerful machine vision solutions in the food industry. Our success stories give you an overview to the possibilities.
Which vision solution is the best for your requirements? As our customer you will benefit from our expertise in carefully selection components from the world’s leading manufactures, optimised to your application. Here you will get a first look at our product range with a special focus on the food industry.
New Sony SenSWIR technology that inspires
24/11/2021
JAI Sweep+: Prism-based colour line scan cameras ensure fast inspection of moving objects
05/11/2020
JAI’s Sweep+ prism-based colour line scan cameras combine high colour fidelity with best in class resolution along with high-speed data transmission over long distances for a wide range of applications.
Two machine vision systems secure quality of aluminium trays
11/09/2019
Aluminium trays are used worldwide in a wide range of shapes for packaging food. Novelis Deutschland GmbH, with the help of the system integrator, Industrielle Sensorsysteme Wichmann GmbH (ISW), and based on machine vision components from STEMMER IMAGING, has produced a two-stage inspection system to check the quality of the trays.
Flight test passed
24/04/2019
Inspection of sausages with machine vision
Wolf GmbH uses a sorting system from BT-Anlagenbau for the reliable detection of synthetic intestine residues, some of which are as small as 1mm² on Berner sausages, and to detect contaminated products. The key elements of these systems are machine vision components from STEMMER IMAGING combined with smart imaging software and a precise sorting system from BT-Anlagenbau, which enable the inspection of sausages in flight during the production process.
Heat-sealed joint inspection with hyperspectral imaging
07/09/2018
Bergader Privatkäserei, established in 1902, relies on state-of-the-art technology as well as traditional craftsmanship in the manufacture of its cheese specialities. A hyperspectral imaging system is being used for the first time for the packaging of the blue cheese ‘Bergader Edelpilz’.