FilterEnd Inspection In the Cigarette Manufacturing Industry FAISAL MIRZA SUNSHINE CORPORATION KARAC

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Filter-End InspectionIn the Cigarette
Manufacturing IndustryFAISAL MIRZA
SUNSHINE CORPORATION KARACHI
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Performance Against Goals

• Goal To Implement a High-Quality Machine Vision
  System For The Cigarette Industry, That Is Fast,
  Rugged, Scalable and Cost Effective.
• Must be capable of handling speeds of approx. 600
  Cigarette Packs Per Minute.
• Must fit into narrow space inside conventional
  packaging machines.
• Must detect Missing Filters.

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Performance Against Goals

• Actual
• The system is scalable and capable of handling
  speeds of approx. 1000 Cigarette packs per
  minute.
• The camera measures less than 87 x 47 x 35 mm.
• Detects
• Missing Filters,
• Cigarette Miss and
• Tobacco Ends.

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Project Components
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Performance Against Quality

• Quality goal
• To Detect and Reject any Pack that contains one
  or more missing filters (Confirm rejections at
  300 Packs per minute).

• Actual
• Filter Miss Successfully Detected and Rejected
• Cigarette Miss Detected and Rejected.
• Tobacco Side Detected and Rejected.

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Project Design

• Initially the camera size was large and
  illumination was not compact. We changed that.

• Smaller camera size and ring-light worked perfect.

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Project Design

• A Compact Vision System Used for Real Time Image
  Processing.

• Image processing used to detect Filters
  (featuring edge -detection).

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Thank You.

• Presented by
• Faisal Mirza (Director Technical),
• Sunshine Corporation,
• Karachi Pakistan.
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