Vision and inspection/ detection machinery aids in packaging line production.

In today’s changing packaging landscape, challenges and obstacles are sure to appear for packagers and suppliers meeting new industry standards, as well as satisfying consumer demand. New machinery and technology in the inspection, detection and vision space rise to the challenge to overcome these obstacles and provide unmatched efficiency. We talked with Sam Lopez, director of sales and marketing at Matrox Imaging about major challenges customers face when dealing with inspection technology.

“Whether customers are integrating inspection technology themselves, outsourcing it to integrators or bringing in ready-made inspection systems, there are a few key challenges they face. Cost-benefit: Firstly, machine inspection replaces labor with the intention to offer a standardized, non-variable inspection process.  In certain situations and locales, workers performing inspections may be more economically feasible, even if the technology is more reliable. Great technology needs to be scoped, designed and priced to take this into account,” says Lopez.