CAM-299
The line has stopped and the reject tray is overflowing
The vial line has stopped. On the bend of the conveyor the vials have tipped over and are piling into each other. Below, the reject tray is full to the rim. A person in a blue gown puts both hands to their head in front of the jam; two more wait by the machine with nothing to do. The line display is frozen. IRIS sees where product stopped moving, times it from the first second and counts what’s in the tray.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- reject tray full to the rim
- vials tipped over on the bend
- vials stationary on the belt
- line display frozen
- person standing at the jam
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 7 min 40 sstopped for
- 180vials in the reject tray
- 26vials tipped over on the bend
- 3people on the line
- 10:14time the line stopped
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
the vials stop moving for more than a minute or the reject tray reaches the rim
Then
- alert the line manager with the camera, the time and the point of the jam
- save the video of the thirty seconds before the stop
- time the stop and count the vials in the tray
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the vials stop moving for more than a minute, and tell me how many have gone into the reject tray.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
When the line stops, the plant system says it has stopped. It doesn’t say where, or what happened in the thirty seconds before, or how much product went to reject in the meantime. At the end of the shift, the reject figure is whatever somebody remembers. With the camera, the line manager has the exact point of the jam, the minute it started, the video from before and the number of vials in the tray. An argument becomes a figure with a time on it.
What people usually ask
Does the line system not already report that it has stopped?
Yes, and it goes on doing so. What the system doesn’t say is where the jam is, what happened in the thirty seconds before, and how much product is in the reject tray. IRIS adds the image and the exact minute. It works alongside the plant system, not instead of it.
Does IRIS count the rejected vials?
It counts the ones it can see: those in the tray and those tipped over on the bend. It’s a figure taken from the image, with a time and a frame, useful to know the order of magnitude and to cross-check. The official batch figure comes from plant reconciliation. The only thing approved by the Centro Español de Metrología, Spain’s national metrology institute, is people counting. That approval is Spanish and it isn’t equivalent to any U.S. certification: we say so up front and not at the end.
Can IRIS stop the line?
No. IRIS doesn’t act: it reports. It sees that product has stopped moving, times it from the first second and sends the camera, the time and the video to whoever decides. Stopping, restarting or rejecting a batch is done by a person or by the plant system.
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Simulation · how IRIS works
You set the rule once. IRIS applies it every time.
You will see a summary of the interface, played step by step and hands-free. Each round starts with another case. The complete tool doesn’t fit in a demo.
- Four cameras at once
- Each understands its own view
- The numbers climb by themselves
Next step
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.
When does a bad review get decided?
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 decide the rule onceand it’s applied the same way every time.
At three in the morning it means what it means at noon, on camera one and on camera four thousand. It doesn’t depend on who’s on shift, or how tired they are.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.