Artificial Intelligence: industrial cases use

Donato Laico Quality & Process Control BU Vision Systems SACMI Imola

SACMI Imola is the parent company of the SACMI Group, an Italian cooperative that is the leading international designer, producer and marketer of manufacturing plants and industrial technology for the ceramic and packaging sectors. SACMI has enjoyed market success for 100 years and is now a major Italian enterprise in terms of size, sales, areas covered and services provided.

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plant provider to the global supplier of ° ° 1 global ceramic ° ° 1 closure industry 1 1 manufacturing machines

sales of €1,434 4,515 employees million INDUSTRY 4.0

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Germania 326

Russia 33 4,515 employees Cina Nord Europa 391 America 119 Italia A network of over 80 companies providing 143 2.962 sales and assistance services, plus 30 manufacturing facilities in Italy, Germany, Egypt, Iran, USA, Mexico, Brazil, India, Indonesia and China Estremo India Oriente Sud 115 88 America Africa 16 44 Medio Oriente 68

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RE-THINKING THE FUTURE

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Ceramics Closures & Beverage Metals Packaging & Quality Customer Containers Chocolate & Service Process Control

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. The use of a vision system comes from the need to control the quality of the products obtained from Sacmi machines

. The first system was installed in 1985 on a crown caps machine

. Currently the Quality & Process Control Quality business unit designs (hardware and software) & and builds systems for quality control of plastic Process and metal closures, bottles, labels, cans, Control lithographed sheets …

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Sacmi produces The end customer increasingly high- needs more ARTIFICIAL performance and qualified and more sophisticated expensive INTELLIGENCE machines and personnel to processes Traditional vision manage them a necessary innovation algorithms are difficult to use for for SACMI Computer quality control of such complex products Vision Our customers' products are increasingly personalized and complex IA

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AI for simplification: the cavities numbers in the moulds

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AI for simplification: the cavities numbers in the moulds

DEEP LEARNING techniques

Numbers of any font type, contrast and font size are recognized without any additional operation by the machine operator.

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AI for process control: Identification of plastic stress in preform moulding

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AI for process control: Identification of plastic stress in preform moulding

GOOD DEFECTIVE

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AI for process control: Identification of plastic stress in preform moulding

Artificial Intelligence techniques

automatic, unsupervised, simple and effective method to discriminate between defective and good containers:

AUTOMATIC IN-LINE PROCESS CONTROL

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