Surface Inspection

Inspection of Coffee Capsules

With the use of Maddox AI, different capsule types can be reliably distinguished during a product changeover. This saves tens of thousands of capsules that were previously discarded as a precaution.

Product

Coffee Capsules

Industry

Food & Beverage / Consumer Goods

Total savings / year​

50-70k €

Customer Request

Our customer produces countless capsules every day. The greatest challenge lies in the product changeover between two capsule types: to avoid any mixing, the system is partially emptied – resulting in up to 60,000 discarded capsules per changeover. This leads to high scrap rates, unnecessary costs, and reduced sustainability.

The customer’s goal was to automate this scrap-intensive and manual process without compromising detection accuracy

Before

Previous Inspection System

After

With Maddox AI

Manual inspection of capsules by employees.

All capsule types are inspected 100% automatically based on precise defect definitions.

Safety-related scrap of up to 60,000 capsules per changeover – caused by empty runs and concerns about capsule overlap. 

Thanks to automatic and reliable detection of different capsule types, no empty runs are required during product changeover. Overlap of different types is eliminated.

Vorher

Vorheriges Inspektionssystem

Manual inspection of capsules by employees.

Safety-related scrap of up to 60,000 capsules per changeover – caused by empty runs and concerns about capsule overlap. 

Nacher

Mit Maddox AI

All capsule types are inspected 100% automatically based on precise defect definitions.

Thanks to automatic and reliable detection of different capsule types, no empty runs are required during product changeover. Overlap of different types is eliminated.

>65

Inspected product variants on one line

>1 Millionen

Scrap saved

Integration

in existing fully automated production line

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