Precise monitoring on high-speed production lines: How the Alvium G1 industrial camera achieves zero defects in bottle production

Industry Status: The Pain of Quality Control in High-Speed Filling

In today's food and beverage industry, automated production lines operate at astonishing speeds. A typical beer filling line, for example, can reach a production speed of 22 bottles per second, or an astonishing 80,000 bottles per hour. This breakneck speed presents significant challenges:

- Traditional manual quality inspection simply cannot keep up with the production pace.

- Defects as subtle as 0.1mm are difficult to detect in a timely manner.

- Every downtime represents a significant loss, exceeding €1,000 per minute (Source: Food & Beverage Reporter, UK, 2023).

In 2022, a canning line failure at Anheuser-Busch InBev's Brazilian brewery resulted in the scrapping of millions of bottles of beer, resulting in direct losses of €85,000 per incident. Minor errors can lead to costly downtime and direct production losses. Amid the intelligent transformation of the beverage manufacturing industry, Allied Vision's Alvium G1 industrial camera, with its superior performance, is redefining the standard for quality inspection on high-speed production lines.

The Alvium G1-510's Precision

The Alvium G1-150 camera is designed to capture every detail of the production and bottling process, ensuring that no defects escape unnoticed. Its advanced vision inspection system enables real-time analysis and immediate response to defects, striving for near-zero defects at the end of the production line.

Core technological advantages include:

- High-speed, high-precision imaging: Equipped with the Sony IMX548 sensor, it achieves an acquisition speed of 23.7 frames per second at 5.1MP resolution. For critical process steps, it can achieve ultra-high-speed inspection at 150 frames per second.

- Ultra-compact design: Measuring only 41×29×29mm, it easily integrates into space-constrained equipment.

- Advanced image processing technology: Supports up to 16 preset parameter combinations to adapt to diverse production needs.

- Easy deployment: Powered by a single Ethernet cable and supporting the standard GigE Vision protocol.

Multi-dimensional value enhancement for production lines.

With 5.1MP high-resolution imaging and 150fps inspection speed, the Alvium G1 can reliably identify:

- Bottle structural defects

- Abnormal filling levels

- Label adhesion issues

In practical applications, the Alvium G1 demonstrates its comprehensive value.

Upgraded Quality Control

- Achieve the ultimate goal of near-zero defects

- Simultaneously inspect key indicators such as bottle body, liquid level, and labeling

- Comply with stringent regulations such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11

Comprehensively improve efficiency

- Significantly reduce unplanned downtime

- Significantly optimize overall equipment efficiency

- Save significant downtime costs annually

Intelligent Maintenance System

- Real-time monitoring of equipment status

- Early warning of potential risks

- Automatically generate complete inspection logs