Automate dangerous and toxic filling with Cognex vision
For years, Feige Filling has been supplying industrial machines used to fill different containers. In 2006, the company developed a new robotic filling technology equipped with Cognex vision that opens up completely new opportunities for filling with regard to safety, speed and cost effectiveness. Equipped with the In-Sight 5401 camera plus PatMax, the `RobotFiller`, a robot with a four or six-jointed arm, can locate the different container stoppers for filling even when they arrive in various positions on the pallet.
One of the RobotFiller`s most important functions is to locate the stoppers with screw closures on the drums. Without a precision vision system, safe and rapid opening, filling and closing would not be possible. Cognex PatMax technology makes In-Sight especially fast and reliable. This revolutionary tool for high-precision location of objects using pattern-matching technology reads and recognises an enormous variety of patterns.
Code-reading properties mean that the In-Sight 5401 can detect every container. The information passed on to a safety system further up the chain ensures that the right containers for filling are located on the pallet. The In-Sight 5401 increases process safety and helps save costs, as the incorrect assignment of filling material to container is ruled out.
