CAM-210
A container has touched the floor
Mid-morning in the packaging hall of a dairy plant. The blue belt climbs toward the case packer, loaded with white bottles. Beside the line, an operator in a white coat, blue hairnet and gloves has crouched down and is picking a fallen bottle off the floor. A blue bin stands two steps away. Further back, colleagues are making up cardboard boxes on the steel tables. The bottle has touched the floor: what happens to it next is the plant’s call.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- bottle on the floor
- person picking up off the floor
- packaging belt
- reject bin
- boxing table
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 1 min 40 sTime since it touched the floor
- 1Containers on the floor right now
- 0Containers put back on the belt
- 3Floor contacts this shift
- 8People in frame
- 10:42Time of the alert
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
a container falls to the floor in the packaging hall, or a container that has been on the floor goes back onto the belt
Then
- alert the shift supervisor with the camera, the time and the point on the line
- keep the seconds of video of the container hitting the floor and of what happens next
- log the alert in the shift record, with the line and the time, and nobody’s name
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when a container touches the floor in the packaging hall, and tell me again if it goes back onto the belt.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
The next day the argument runs on memory and word against word: nobody wrote anything down, because nobody saw it. A container that touches the floor stops being a clean container. IRIS marks the exact moment, keeps the seconds of video and notes the point on the line. With that, quality decides what happens to that container and to the batch, and doesn’t have to argue about whether it happened. IRIS doesn’t point at whoever picks it up: it points at a container that has touched the floor.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS know whether the container went back onto the line?
Yes, if it happens in front of the camera. IRIS follows the container for as long as it can see it: it sees it fall, sees it on the floor and sees whether somebody puts it back on the belt within the frame. Anything that leaves the field of view stops being tracked, and the alert says so in those words. That’s why the camera should cover the whole stretch between the floor and the belt, not just the spot where things drop.
Is this used to single out the person who picks the container up?
No. IRIS does not identify anyone: it does not recognize faces, does not compare them with anything and does not store who the person is. What it detects is a situation: a container has touched the floor, and that container either does or doesn’t go back onto the belt. Picking it up is exactly the right thing to do; what the plant wants to know is whether it is put back. What happens to the container and the batch is the plant’s decision, not the camera’s.
Can IRIS say whether the product has been contaminated?
No. A camera sees that the container touched the floor; it doesn’t see a bacterium or a chemical residue. That takes a laboratory test, with its sample and its result. What IRIS contributes is the fact, the exact minute and the image, so that whoever decides knows there’s something to review instead of depending on somebody remembering. IRIS works alongside the quality systems, not in their place.
Other cameras
- CAM-200 · The line has stopped and nobody knows why
- CAM-201 · Bottles piling up on the accumulation table
- CAM-202 · The line is running and not one bottle goes by
- CAM-203 · A glove on the belt, among the trays
- CAM-204 · A water bottle in the middle of a juice run
- CAM-205 · A label that says the opposite of what is in the bag
Every simulation
On foot among machines
Tell me if someone walks into where a machine is moving and stays there for more than five seconds.
- The sentence
- Where it applies
- What it finds
- The same rule
Next step
How many spaces are open right now?
15 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 6 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What does a venue with twenty thousand people inside see?
15 cases: 11 raise an alert when something happens and 4 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
You can add more cameras;you can’t add more hours to anyone’s day.
Cameras can be multiplied; a person’s hours can’t. IRIS looks at everything coming in and leaves them the one thing no machine does better: deciding what to do.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.