Festo Corporation: Affordable vision system for food, beverages

Festo’s compact vision system SBOC-Q combines a master controller, sensor interfaces, and various drives while still achieving 100% quality monitoring simply and affordably.

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The SBOI-Q and the optoelectronic gap sensor SOEG-RTD ensure seamless monitoring of an entire production process. The vision system can detect imperfect food or beverage items, then generates a pulse to initiate ejection of defective products.

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