2020 Hindsight - Video capture for the packaging industry.
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Food

With the need for perfect quality and low cost production, packaging of food products can be particularly difficult. To solve these problems, use Hindsight’s food and beverage package allowing cameras to operate in clean areas. Operators can see jams in slow motion and instantly determine whether environmental issues (temperature, etc.), line setups, or material defects are the root cause.

"20/20 Hindsight provides a powerful tool for our service team. By using the system, we can optimize our machines and other packaging equipment to help customers increase production."

Russ Coffman
Project Engineer
SIG Combibloc


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A new filler was installed on a food packaging line. Intermittent jar breaking was tracked down using the high resolution video from a 20/20 Hindsight system. It was determined that the root case was a bad bearing on the elevator for filler head #17.

Mayonnaise food packaging line.
A new filler was installed on a food packaging line. Intermittent jar breaking was tracked down using the high resolution video from a 20/20 Hindsight system. It was determined that the root case was a bad bearing on the elevator for filler head #17.

A power bar doesn't get positioned correctly on a packaging line and causes a jam that results in a pile up of candy bars.

Power Bar Jam
A power bar doesn't get positioned correctly on a packaging line and causes a jam that results in a pile up of candy bars.

A reject mechanism on a packaging fails to kick a can off of a conveyer belt, causing a jam on the packaging line.

Can Reject
A reject mechanism on a packaging fails to kick a can off of a conveyer belt, causing a jam on the packaging line.

Carrots appear to dance as they move from one conveyer belt to another.

Dancing Carrots
Carrots appear to dance as they move from one conveyer belt to another.

Cookies moving down a conveyer belt slide down a packaging line.

Cookie Slide
Cookies moving down a conveyer belt slide down a packaging line.

Cup misplacement causes jam.

Cup Placement Jam
Cup misplacement causes jam.

Ice cream being cut into servings for packaging.

Ice Cream
Ice cream being cut into servings for packaging.

Suction cup misses and causes jam.

Carton Jam
Suction cup misses and causes jam.

This video shows a food packaging line that is using two cameras to monitor a trouble spot.  Using both cameras, the jam can be analyzed from two different angles, allowing the problem to be resolved twice as quickly.

Two cameras are better than one.
This video shows a food packaging line that is using two cameras to monitor a trouble spot. Using both cameras, the jam can be analyzed from two different angles, allowing the problem to be resolved twice as quickly.

This video shows how 20/20 Hindsight can be used in slow speed processes where intricate movement and timing needs to be monitored.

Butter dropping onto conveyer.
This video shows how 20/20 Hindsight can be used in slow speed processes where intricate movement and timing needs to be monitored.

Better Baked Foods
Big G - General Mills
Campbells
ConAgra Foods
Dannon
Danone
Del Monte Foods
Domino Sugar
Gehl's Foods
Heinz
Kelloggs
Kraft
Kroger
McCormick
McKee
Motts
Nabisco
Nestle
Quaker
Sara Lee
Schwans Foods
Smuckers
Stouffers
Turkey Hill

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