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With the festive season fast approaching, what better way to celebrate than with a Christmas-themed use case? This time, we explore quality inspection of Christmas chocolate boxes—specifically focusing on completeness inspection. In...

Deep learning for railway safety inspections? We recently tackled an unconventional use case—automating the inspection of locks and latches on slowly moving railway carriages!

Explore how PEKAT VISION's Anomaly Detector streamlines packaging inspection in meat production, detecting foreign contaminants like foil or paper and ensuring the highest quality before sealing. Learn more about its speed, accuracy, and flexibility for food inspection.

PEKAT VISION’s AI solution streamlines cup cleanliness inspection for reusable drinkware, detecting defects and contamination, ensuring quality at festivals around Europe.

Discover how PEKAT VISION's deep-learning software helped a leading pasta manufacturer achieve precise quality inspection, ensuring perfect pasta length with a fast, scalable solution tailored to high-speed production lines.

Learn how Machine Vision Consulting Srl used PEKAT VISION’s Classifier module to automate plant selection. The system inspects each plant’s health and density, offering consistent quality assessment at scale.

Recently we helped Arimation Robotics to develop a deep learning-based solution to rapidly sort over 6,000 PCB bords into 20 categories based on precious metal content, a task that was impossible for human operators due to the sheer volume and complexity.

Learn how PEKAT VISION helped a textile manufacturer overcome challenges in detecting defects on large-scale materials using the Anomaly Detection module and custom preprocessing.

See how PEKAT VISION ensures cleanliness of plastic boxes in the production of plastic toys, identifying and classifying various contaminants and anomalies.

Explore how NIR illumination enhances contrast between objects and penetrates certain materials, allowing us to 'see through' layers, and proving invaluable in scenarios where traditional lighting methods fall short.

There are two primary approaches to machine vision: traditional (rules-based) and deep learning-based. Understanding their differences, advantages, disadvantages, and specific use cases can help manufacturers choose the most suitable method for their needs.

Introducing PEKAT VISION 3.16. From enhanced speed to refined user interface, this update represents a culmination of our ongoing efforts to make visual inspection technology more approachable and effective than ever before.

Collaborative robots expand the number of applications suitable for automated quality inspection, they are versatile, easy to set up, repeatable, and affordable. They are particularly helpful in inspecting complex, larger, or heavier product.

Introducing the Baumer VAX-50 Smart Camera solution with PEKAT VISION, representing another leap forward in industrial visual inspection, offering superior performance, ease of use, and scalability.

Datasensing & PEKAT VISION are proud to announce the release of its innovative Vision Processor, a powerful industrial PC designed specifically to elevate quality control across manufacturing and logistics.

Have you ever experienced the frustration of assembling furniture, only to discover crucial pieces are missing from the box? The result can be a time-consuming and annoying setback, requiring you to disassemble and head back to the store. Watch a brief demonstration of how our software aids in preventing these assembly hiccups.

Learn how the latest advancements in Photoneo 3D scanning technology and PEKAT VISION deep-learning software has transformed the landscape of quality control in the automotive sector. A single overlooked detail, like an incorrect, or incorrectly seated fuse in a fuse box, can have far-reaching consequences. In our latest blog post we look at how these two companies tackle this challenge head-on.

We are thrilled to present PEKAT VISION 3.14, the latest version of our cutting-edge visual inspection software, setting a new standard for precision, speed, and accuracy, empowering operators of all technical background to effortlessly train and manage the visual inspection parameters.

The advancements in deep learning and computer vision have paved the way for automated inspection in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Inspecting the liquid level of vials is one example of its use. This brief article explores the potential of PEKAT VISION in enhancing vial quality control and highlights the benefits it brings to the pharmaceutical manufacturing process.

Object Detector and Classifier are two more modules that we would like to briefly describe and provide an example of their use in our blog series. To simulate a real-life scenario, we used different products, a small conveyor belt, and a PLC connected to a signaling beacon. The items, while moving on the conveyor belt, were sorted into the correct product class and inspected for any defect or missing parts. We’re inviting you to look behind the scene at how everything was done.

In our next installment of blog series, we will take a look at PEKAT VISION's OCR module used with PhoXi 3D scanner from Photoneo. Using the scanner, we read the embossed characters, including the manufacturer's identification number and DOT number, on the sidewall of a scooter tire.

We are introducing a new series of blog posts covering the main modules of PEKAT VISION as they were presented during the autumn trade fairs. In the first part of the series, we will look at the Surface Detection module, used for detecting scratches, cracks, tears in packaging material or shrink wraps, missing parts, burrs on oil seals, or just any kind of surface defect or contamination.

Searching for defects, either defined, or previously unseen is not the only use of our software. PEKAT VISION can be applied for vision-based robot guidance, product sorting, or completeness check. In this brief article we will look at completeness inspection for the pharma industry.

Camera-based inspection systems with artificial intelligence enable product quality control at a level that previously could only be performed by humans. This article explains how and why to use AI in your production and how PEKAT VISION can help you.

We are proud to announce that yesterday PEKAT VISION was acquired by Datalogic for €16 million.

Until now we did not pay that much attention to our Detector module. This is a pity because it is a very useful and fast technique for defect detection.

In this use case, we would like to show you how you can effectively detect various types of defects on textile.

After an involuntary break caused by COVID-19 we attended a Stuttgart Vision conference at the beginning of the month. When preparing for the conference we considered it very important to show how...

The Medical field is also one of those areas which can benefit from detection of flaws using deep learning tools. As proved by PEKAT VISION software that we used to inspect pill blisters.

We are about to release our new OCR module, which also includes AI training! Our new OCR module is able to perfectly read printed characters done by welding, dotted characters printed on metallic parts and other surfaces, tyre marks description, special characters and much more.

In this interview, we would like to introduce Sergio Palazzi, the owner and executive director of Machine Vision Consulting Srl. Machine Vision Consulting is our partner, integrator and product distributor in Italy. We spoke about their work, progress in the field of automation and AI and also about future plans.

Even though the automotive industry already has several automated manufacturing processes, it still relies heavily on human visual inspection. Among others, the automotive industry is able to implement automated inspection solutions using machine vision technology. Let’s have a look at our newest use case.

Nowadays, the visual inspection of transparent materials is still a challenge in machine vision projects. Our latest case study is focusing on this specific issue. We have performed a feasibility study for glass inspection and we are glad to share these results with you.

The manufacturers of braided cables need their products to be very flexible and remain in perfect condition for a long period of time. To achieve that, the customer needs to achieve 100% flawless product. PEKAT VISION software is an effective, fast and easy way to achieve that as you can see in our new case study.

Food and beverages always need to be in a perfect condition when customers buy them. That is why the food and beverage industry is very strict about the quality of their products. Concerning these industries, we had the opportunity to use our software for the recognition of defects on salmon.

Connecting your software with LabVIEW and integrating with PEKAT VISION has never been easier! We have prepared a demo, including a VI file, which you can also use in your application, saving you from wasting hours in programming communication in LabVIEW!

PEKAT VISION has recently performed a feasibility study regarding inspection of defects in the production of paving blocks.

We perform feasibility studies for our customers on daily basis. We use them to demonstrate the capabilities of the PEKAT VISION software. On two examples of such studies we want to show you where and how exactly can PEKAT VISION's focused learning algorithm be applied.

Hirokazu TERADAIRA Senior General Manager / Sales / ITANZI / TIETECH Co. LTD. / Japan Could you introduce TIETECH? (activities, strategy, main industries, future plans) Our company provides products tailored to various...