CAM-204
A water bottle in the middle of a juice run
The infeed belt of the filler, with the line running juice. Every bottle looks the same: amber body, label on, cap in the same color. Among them travels a different bottle: clear, with no label and a blue cap. It’s a water pack that has slipped into the order. An operator in a coat and gloves is working on the machine a few feet further along and hasn’t seen it go by. IRIS marks it while it’s still moving.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- unlabeled water bottle with a blue cap
- juice bottles in the right format
- operator working on the filler
- packs of water stored beside the line
- pallet of finished product at the outfeed
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 1Different packs counted
- 54Bottles of the right format on the run
- 18 sTime the pack has been in frame
- 7People in frame
- 13:07Time 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 pack enters the line that differs from the format of the active order
Then
- alert the line manager with the camera and the time
- save the video of the pack entering the run
- mark the pack on the image so it is clear which one it is
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if a pack goes into the line that is not the one for the order we are running.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Somebody finishes the format changeover at ten fifteen and starts the line with a water bottle left in the order. A wrong container breaks nothing: it carries on, gets filled, capped, packed and turns up on a finished pallet. Finding it then means opening boxes, one by one. IRIS flags it as it goes into the machine, with camera, time and video, so the format changeover is checked against images instead of against the memory of whoever did it.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS know which format is the right one?
The plant tells it. The rule is written for the order that’s running: this body, this label, this cap color. Anything that doesn’t match that description is flagged. IRIS doesn’t decide what’s correct: it compares what it sees with what the plant has said should be going through.
Is it useful for format changeovers?
Yes, and that’s where it shows most. The changeover is the moment when a pack from the previous order slips through. With the camera watching the infeed, the restart is checked with images: if a pack of the old format goes by in the first minutes, the alert fires with time and video.
Does IRIS read the label text or the batch code?
Not on this camera. Here what tells the pack apart is what’s visible at a glance: the shape, the cap color and whether it carries a label or not. Reading a code needs a tight shot and a camera set up for it. What this camera adds is that a pack that doesn’t fit stops going through without anyone knowing.
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-205 · A label that says the opposite of what is in the bag
- CAM-206 · The changeover isn’t finished
A different case every time
A camera looks. IRIS understands what it sees.
An extract of the real screen, no voice-over and hands-free. Each round poses another situation. What sits behind it is a good deal bigger than what you see.
- You draw the line
- It counts by itself
- A number comes out
Next step
Who is watching when the load swings over somebody?
11 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 2 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching the yard screen when the fight starts?
17 cases: 16 raise an alert when something happens and one only measures. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
Sometimes you don’t need an alarm:you need a number.
How many people came in, and when. You draw a line over the image and the camera counts. People counting is approved by the Centro Español de Metrología — Spain’s national metrology institute — through NeuralPax. It’s a Spanish approval: it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification and we don’t present it as one. What crosses over is the method. The same line, in the same place, every day.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.