The consortium of Campden BRI Hungary, Maspex, KSM Vision – Innovating Under the Guidance of EIT Food
In today's competitive food industry, ensuring accurate and consistent product labeling is essential. However, current market solutions often require manual calibration and parameterization, leading to inefficiencies. The R&D project, guided by EIT Food, aims to revolutionise this process by developing a fully automated label quality inspection system.
05 Aug 2024
Mission
The project aims to automate and digitize label quality inspection as part of the food industry’s green transformation, enhancing system resilience, reducing costly recalls, and maintaining consumer confidence.
Scope
The project focuses on creating an innovative system that provides 100% automated control for food product labels, particularly for jars and pouch packaging, to streamline quality control and eliminate manual intervention.
Challenge
The project addresses the significant challenges in maintaining consistent quality control across diverse product lines by introducing automation that adapts to different packaging formats, reducing errors and manual labor.
Process
The project involves developing hardware and algorithms, collecting data for defect detection models, creating auto-calibration and parameterisation algorithms, and conducting FAT tests on 50 products.
Functionalities
The system will feature auto-calibration and parameterisation algorithms, analise 2D label representations, adapt to new formats, and automatically convert settings to 3D physical products.
Consortium
A consortium of leading organisations in the food industry has been established, combining their expertise to develop and implement this innovative automated label inspection system.
Consortium
Leadership
EIT Food
EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The organization is at the forefront of efforts to transform the food system into a sustainable, net-zero industry. EIT Food provides strategic guidance, ensuring that the project aligns with broader goals of sustainability and innovation in the food sector.
Campden BRI Hungary
Communication & Promotion
Campden BRI Hungary is an independent non-profit R&D institute dedicated to the needs of the food industry, agriculture, and related sectors. It is one of the most important service providers for food companies in Eastern and Central Europe. Campden BRI Hungary's role in the consortium includes the promotion and dissemination of the project’s results, providing unique and competitive knowledge to stakeholders across the food industry.
FAT on Production Lines
Maspex
Maspex is the largest private company in the food industry in Poland and one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. With sales to over 70 markets worldwide, Maspex has extensive expertise in production and market dynamics. Their role in the consortium is to ensure that the project’s innovations are practically applicable on production lines and scalable across various markets globally.
Design & Implementation
KSM Vision
KSM Vision is a trusted partner in the field of automated quality control, specializing in AI-driven optical inspection systems. Since 2012, KSM Vision has been at the forefront of developing solutions that eliminate the need for manual inspection, significantly enhancing efficiency and accuracy in production processes. Their role in the consortium is to design and implement the cutting-edge technology that will drive the project’s success.
