Gourmet spice manufacturer aims for "zero defects" with the new technology
Since the company produces about 45,000 spice jars daily ranging from nutmeg to chili powder, costly and time-consuming manual inspection of the packaged product was only conducted on a random sample basis. As a result, imperfect jars would occasionally go undetected. "We needed to get as close as possible to zero defects, and quickly realized in our research effort that machine vision technology was a viable way to meet our packaging quality goals," recalled Tim Ewen, quality manager at Spice Hunter.