Empty crate inspection with 3D cameras

The world's largest flower auction processes millions of flower buckets a year. The use of standardized flower buckets by growers and buyers provides higher loading rates for less cost, handling, storage and transportation. These buckets must be thoroughly machine cleaned every time so that the flowers look fresh and healthy. The challenge is that the flower buckets go into the washing machine without gross contamination such as plastic bags, straps and cardboard.
empty crates inspection
Description case

Vision Partners has developed a customer-specific machine vision 3D inspection system where multiple 3D cameras are used to check the contents of each flower bucket. In case the flower bucket is too grossly contaminated; the bucket is ejected. 

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Empty crate inspection

Multiple 3D cameras create a 3D point-cloud of the crate after which machine vision software determines the degree of contamination of each crate, - independent of color, type of contamination and humidity. The trigger ring of the image capture takes place with the robust sensors of Sensor Partners.

3D point cloud of a flower bucket with pollution

This was a turn-key delivery where Vision Partners developed, installed and released the complete inspection module. Communication takes place with the parent system whereby automatic switching takes place between the different types of flower buckets. The performance of the 3D inspection is also visible on the (mobile) customer dashboard so that the customer and operators have real-time insight into the car wash performance. 

According to satisfied customer: "Thanks to this 3D inspection, the capacity of the car wash was significantly improved due to less unplanned machine downtime.

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