Visual inspection of natural products such as foods or wood products is necessary since ‘appearance’ is an important quality factor. The grain in wood or the delicate natural anatomy of a fish fillet must meet the expectations of consumers, yet the acceptable appearance varies greatly from one item to the next. Inspection of prepared foods and finished woods has always demanded human inspectors because conventional machine vision technologies cannot deliver the visual sophistication that is required for subtle discrimination of natural variations from unwanted defects in appearance. However, a human inspector’s performance can vary widely as a result of visual fatigue or other distractions, and consistent quality can not be guaranteed to a customer.

VE Tech offers the first machine vision systems specifically designed to emulate the human vision system for natural product inspection. VE Tech’s flagship product, the VE379 Saccade Camera, can consistently perform subtle image interpretation tasks involving discrimination of variable defects in a variable product. The result - a machine vision system that can automate quality inspection of natural products to provide the highest level of visual quality assurance to a customer.

VE Tech’s proprietary technology provides new value-added solutions for natural product inspection. All of VE Tech’s machine vision systems are robustly packaged and designed for reliable operation in harsh environments (NEMA 6P).