SGCC has developed the Optical Defects Recognition system in order to provide glass manufacturers with precise information about the reason for rejection of containers. Presently, most sidewall inspectors operate on a binary principle which means that a container is considered good or bad according to only two conditions: size and grey level. The French-based company says that the high quality image acquisition by the Alphacam machine, which uses high definition matrix cameras, offers a perfect vision defect recognition. The image processing, developed with the latest technologies, is claimed to be "state-of-the-art". This software, called Optical Defects Recognition, is now available in the Alphacam machine and recognizes the following defects in glass container packaging: inclusion; blisters; folds; mould seams; birdswings.
