CAM-243
The cell is ready and the bin is empty
Early morning at the robot cell. The arm has stopped in the middle with nothing to pick. In front of the fence the big grey bin has not a single part in it: you can see the bottom. The steel hopper beside it is empty too, and so is the bin at the back next to the pallet. An operator stands looking at the cell, hands on his hips, waiting for material. IRIS times from the moment the cell ran out of anything to process.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- feed bin standing empty
- steel hopper with no material
- second bin, empty as well
- robot arm stopped with no part
- operator waiting for the material
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 3Empty bins at the cell
- 7 min 30 sTime with no material
- 0Parts produced in the last five minutes
- 1People in shot
- 09:48Time the bin ran empty
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 feed bin is empty and the cell has gone more than five minutes without putting out a part
Then
- alert internal logistics with the camera, the cell and the time
- save the picture of the empty bin as the evidence for the alert
- time the wait until the material arrives and the cell starts again
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if the bin at the cell runs empty and the robot goes more than five minutes without putting out a part.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
A cell stopped for want of material makes no noise. No alarm goes off, no beacon lights up: nothing simply comes out, and nobody hears about it until the count at the end of the shift. With the camera the alert goes out while it is happening, with the exact minute and the picture of the empty bin. The refill is asked for before, not after half an hour of cell time is gone.
What people usually ask
How does IRIS tell an empty bin from a full one?
By what can be seen inside it. You draw a zone over the bin and the camera looks at whether there are parts in there or not. It is the same count it does with people at a doorway, applied to a crate. If the bin is covered, has a tarpaulin over it or falls outside the frame, the camera cannot say: then you need another viewpoint of the same spot.
Does IRIS know which component is missing?
It knows the bin is empty and the cell is not putting parts out. Which reference should have been in there is on the works order, not in the camera. What IRIS adds is the exact minute the material ran out and the picture, so whoever refills knows which bin to go to instead of walking the whole plant.
Does IRIS stop the cell or order the material by itself?
It does neither. IRIS alerts; it does not act. It does not stop a machine, it does not raise an order and it does not send anybody anywhere: that is decided by a person or by the system that already runs the plant. What changes is that the person finds out while it is happening, not at the count at the end of the shift.
Other cameras
- CAM-240 · The line has stopped with a pallet jammed inside
- CAM-241 · The line is running, but a gap opens every few seconds
- CAM-242 · A mountain of parts has built up in front of one machine
- CAM-244 · A copper coil mounted on a steel line
- CAM-245 · A unit moves down the line with no cover on
- CAM-246 · The box takes the bypass and skips inspection
Simulation · how IRIS works
This isn’t a video. It’s a slice of the real screen.
A summary of the real interface, played hands-free. You see one case from start to finish; what you do not see are the other screens, and there are many.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
Next step
How long before somebody comes down that corridor at four in the morning?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who sees the child who has fallen at the far end of the playground?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
You write the rule yourself, in your own words.Nobody has to program it for you.
“Tell me if a fire door is left open.” That is the whole rule. From then on it applies on every camera and at any hour, without ever touching it again.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.