Packagers Choose Machine Vision Quality Inspection to Reduce Waste and Boost ROI

Food and beverage packagers can choose from many solutions to help them achieve greater productivity and profits without investing in capital equipment to increase capacity. An increasingly popular solution is to reduce the acceptable waste threshold and boost return on investment (ROI) using machine vision to perform quality inspections. Recent technological improvements have made machine vision accessible to small- and medium-size packagers so they can achieve improved results and even pursue brand risk avoidance to maintain consumer and retailer confidence. Food & beverage companies invest heavily and consistently in solutions to optimize their manufacturing operations in order to avoid capital equipment investments to increase capacity. Slim profit margins compared to other industries, and increasing quality and variety demands from customers, retailers and regulatory agencies are typical reasons for taking this incremental improvement approach. Each investment gets scrutinized for its impact on ROI and only the strongest and most urgent projects get funded.