Reprinted with permission from the Vision Systems Design article, "Quality Kegs", featured in the December 2010 issue.

Aptura Machine Vision Solutions developed an inspection system to provide full 360 degree inspection of beer keg labels by performing eight checks of the label and tap at the end of the bottling line. The system uses five Point Grey Flea FireWire cameras, feeding a powerful quad-core PC running OmniView Cylindrical Product Inspection software from Cognex to unwrap the round mini-kegs, eliminate parallax, flatten the 3-D object into a spatially correct 2-D image, and check each mini-keg for multiple defects.

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