CAM-208
A bottle that leaves with no cap
Mid-afternoon on a juice line. Bottles come out of the capper in a row, all of them with their green cap on, except one: inside the red box you can see the open neck and the bare thread, moving along with the rest towards the belt that climbs to packing. One operator watches the line from the aisle and another follows the high run. On the right, pallets of shrink-wrapped product are waiting.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- bottle with no cap
- capping machine
- bottles with the cap on
- belt to packing
- shrink-wrapped pallet
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 1Bottles with no cap
- 96Bottles in the watched stretch
- 14 sSince it left the capper
- 17:24Time of the alert
- 3People in the frame
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 bottle goes past the capper outlet with an uncapped neck
Then
- alert the line operator with the camera, the time and the picture of the bottle
- keep the seconds of video, so you know whether more went past the same way
- keep the alert open until somebody confirms the bottle has been pulled
The instruction that set it up«Tell me the moment a bottle goes past the capper outlet with no cap, and tell me before it reaches packing.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
A bottle with no cap does not stay on the line: it travels with the rest, gets wrapped onto the pallet and turns up in the customer's warehouse, wet and with the product gone. Sending a whole pallet back over one bottle is expensive, and spotting it by hand is impossible at the speed the belt runs. IRIS looks at the neck of every bottle that goes past and raises it straight away, with the picture of the bottle and the time, so it can be pulled before it reaches packing.
What people usually ask
Does it also catch a badly applied seal?
Yes, if it is visible from where the camera sits. The rule is the same: the cap is missing, the lid sits crooked, the tamper band is broken or the tray has not sealed. What it cannot do is judge the torque of a thread or the tightness of a seal; that is measured by the line's own equipment. The camera sees what is visible from outside, and it flags it while the bottle is still on the belt.
Can one slip through?
Yes, and it is worth saying so. If one bottle is hidden behind another, if the glare off the stainless steel puts the neck in backlight, or if the belt is so packed that the neck is not visible, that bottle can go unseen. IRIS does not promise to catch every one: it promises to look at every bottle for the whole shift, which is more than a person can do, and to leave the image of every alert.
Does this stop the line?
No. IRIS does not act on the machine: it does not stop it, it does not divert the bottle and it does not trigger any rejector. It sends the alert with the camera, the time and the video to whoever is standing at the line, and that person decides. If the plant wants the line stopped, its own control system does that, not the camera.
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
Simulation · how IRIS works
No extra alarms here. Just what needs looking at.
Not a recorded video, not an explanatory drawing: a summary of the real screen, with a different case every time it starts. There is a lot more behind it.
- The alert fires
- You open it
- You confirm or dismiss
Next step
Why did the line stop?
237 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
How many bays are free 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.
And the best part
The cameras you bought years agostill hold up. What they were missing was not image quality.
It was someone to look. IRIS connects to the installation you already have — same equipment, same cabling — and those images go from being stored to being understood.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.