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Anomaly and defect detection

Surface contamination detection

The inspection point

In food and pharmaceutical packaging a clean surface is not a quality preference but a regulatory requirement. Contamination is small and accidental: a fibre, a few specks of dust, a fingerprint, an oily smear. You cannot collect samples of them all in advance, because each one looks different.

How it runs on the line

The unit is placed to see the whole surface in one frame. The model learns the clean surface only and flags any mark that departs from it, so the type of contamination never has to be defined up front. Rejected packs leave the line and the image is kept for traceability.

  • Clean tray surface. Surface contamination detection.OK
    Clean tray surface
  • Contamination: fibre and dust specks. Surface contamination detection.NOK
    Contamination: fibre and dust specks

Application references

Mode used
Anomaly and defect detection
Training set
About 20 clean parts
Where it is strong
Undefined contamination types
Decision time
~30 ms per part

Let us test your part.

We bring the unit to your line and measure your own part at your own line speed. The quote comes after that measurement.