#optical sorting

CCD Glass Disc Inspection 🔍✨

🔍 Ever seen a machine that sees better than humans?

This is CCD Glass Disc Visual Inspection Equipment – built for tiny, fragile parts like glass discs, ceramic rings, rubber seals, and small metal components.

🧠 How it works: Multi-camera CCD system + AI-ready software → Detects scratches, chips, cracks, dirt, and size errors → Accuracy: ±0.01mm → Speed: 100–1000 pcs/min

⚙️ Why it's cool: ✅ Non-contact (safe for glass) ✅ 1–9 cameras (you choose) ✅ Optional auto reject (punch or mark bad parts) ✅ Replaces 5–8 human inspectors 💸

🧪 Common defects it catches:

Scratches / chips / cracks

Surface contamination

Edge & dimension errors

💬 Reblog & tell me:

What’s the hardest defect to catch in YOUR production line? Scratches? Cracks? Something else?

The machine that hears what’s not wanted

The Coravel is a high-end sorting machine manufactured by Helms Technologie, Ahrensburg. Developed 23 years ago by Dr. Dirk Helms, an engineer from Ahrensburg near Hamburg, Germany, the machine is still standard equipment in many companies today. Axel Breuer talked to Ulrike Helms, the daughter of the company founder, who has been running the business for three years. Helms focuses on growth.

Did…

New sorter self-improves with artificial intelligence

January 12, 2017 – Key Technology introduces VERYX® digital sorters for fresh and frozen berries. Featuring an innovative mechanical architecture, sustained all-sided surface inspection, next-generation cameras and lasers, unique multi-sensor Pixel Fusion™, a high-precision ejection system, specialized product handling systems and extreme ease of use, VERYX maximizes sorting accuracy. Tailored to…

Bühler presents new technology at Fruit Logistica

SORTEX® F and SORTEX PolarVision™ technology take centre stage to showcase the most hygienic and accurate optical sorting solution on the market today

London, January 31, 2017 – Thousands of visitors to this year’s three-day Fruit Logistica exhibition in Berlin, Germany, will have the opportunity to meet The Bühler Group’s new Segment Development Manager for Fruit & Vegetables in Europe and CIS,…