Technology streamlines the mining of data for quality control.
As each bottle of beer comes whisking by the inspection station along a conveyor, a sensor glances at it briefly. On-board intelligence built into the sensor interprets patterns on its label to verify that each bottle not only received a label but also got the correct one. In the glance, the sensor also finds the label's edges and checks its straightness before allowing the bottle to continue toward the final packaging line. If it finds any missing, incorrect or crooked labels, the sensor sends an alarm to the controller so it can pull the bottle from production.