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Q-Bake™

the inspection technology

Q-Bake™ VISUAL INSPECTION SYSTEM FOR BAKERY

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Tortilla and Flatbread __________________________________________________

EyePro System

your high tech partner

Q-Bake™


EyePro

Uses technology to help:

Objectively measure product attributes

TO

Understand and control production processes

AND TO

Improve Quality, Reduce Waste,

Reduce Cost and Increase Competiveness

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inspection technology

Background

EyePro is based in Trento, in

Northern Italy and has been

supplying vision systems worldwide

for over 14 years.

In North America EyePro is based out

of Kansas City, MO.

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inspection technology State of the Art

Q-Bake™

Automated inspection machine for

baked products

• Flour Tortillas

•Corn Tortillas

•Flatbread

•Pocket Bread

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inspection technology State of the Art

Requirements for the Tortilla Industry

Inspection System must be:

• Easy to use – operators can use the system and

understand the information to make process

improvements. Supevisors understand what the measures

mean and can make adjustments while inspecting.

•Robust and Reliable – minimum down time

•Data is easy to understand – real time data displays

– trend graphs, histograms etc, and reports are easy to

understand.

•Reject Criteria Easy To Set by Product - measurement tolerances are set and saved by product.

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inspection technology Modular architecture

Hardware platform and software modules

designed for each specific need

Camera Cabinet

LED Lighting System Electrical Cabinet

Air Knife Rejection

Mechanism

Inspection Conveyor

Components are commercially available:-

Sew Eurodrive Motors, Intralox Belts

Festo Pneumatics, Advantech and ProFace PCs,

Rockwell Automation, off the shelf cameras.

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Shape/2D Control

length / width

diameter / area

aspect / edges

Bites / tags

Holes Burnt Spots

overlapping products

Roundness

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Black and White or Full Color Analysis

CIE-Lab or BCU

bake color intensity

(mean/edge/centre)

topping

(color/distribution)

burns / residues

spots / holes /foreign

material

surface defects (texture)

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The standard rejection

mechanism for tortillas is to

use a series of air knives

that are activated to reject

the defective products as it

passes over a 2 inch gap.

This system works well for

flexible tortillas and flat

breads.

Standard Rejection Mechanism

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inspection technology Easy to Use – Intuitive

Graphical User Interface

For any group of measurement

attributes the measurement

parameters can be adjusted

while inspecting.

The authorized operator can

do this by simply selecting the

green (in spec) tab or yellow

(marginal) tab and then press

the + or – until the desired

value is reached. Press save

and the revised tolerances will

then be used for inspecting or

rejecting product.

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inspection technology Easy to Use – Intuitive

Graphical User Interface

Off

On

Off

Off

Measurement Parameters can be

turned off as a criteria for

rejecting product.

On the right you can see that

three of the four measurements

are shown as gray in color.

These have been turned off by

the authorized operator by

simply selecting them using the

touch screen. Note that even

though an attribute has been

turned off , for the purposes of

rejection, the data for that

measurement is still being

collected and can be reviewed

and analyzed at any time.

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inspection technology Easy to Use – Displays,

Reporting and Analysis

Reporting and Real Time

Information Displays

The system has a number of

displays and reports–

Trend graphs on individual

measurements and waste

overall, Pareto analysis of causes

of waste, graphical and

numerical representations of

mean and standard deviation of

each measurement, histograms

of measures, CP and CPK, etc

The system also keeps photos

and measures of the last 20

rejects so it is very easy to see

why a product was rejected.

Off Line Analysis – The system also

provides tools for offline analysis and

reporting as well as maintaining

historical data in a database.

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Real Time Statistics

Reporting

- Shift

- Daily

- Weekly

- Monthly

Displays, Reporting and Analysis

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- Reject Trend Graphs

Reject % Trend Graph –

can be shown for all

rejects or by individual

reasons for rejection.

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- Rejects – by lane and by reason

Pareto analysis of reasons for rejection

Rejections reported by position on

press – this can be displayed by each

reject reason or for all rejects.

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- Reject Images

The system saves images of the last

20 rejected products

- by touching on the image the

measurement window opens

showing the 20 or so measures

taken for that particular product.

The reason that the product was

rejected is highlighted in red.

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- Trend graphs of key measures

Trend Graphs for key

measures – trend graph by

lane or for all products.

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- Measures by Lane

Key Measurements by lane

– bars change color depending on

whether the measure in that lane is

within target limits (bar is green),

outside target but within marginal

(bar is yellow) outside parameters

(bar is red).

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- Histograms

Frequency Histogram

for for key measures –

by lane or for all

products.

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Reporting

Automated generation

and emailing of Reports

– production statistics,

measures, waste analysis.

Reported by shift, day, week and month.

Data is stored in a SQL database

Ad Hoc Database analysis and query tools


- Reporting and Data Analysis

Q-Bake™


EyePro Technology

Inspection, Measurement and Data Collection

A tool to help manage your production process

and

Improve Quality, Reduce Waste,

Reduce Cost and Increase Competiveness

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