Smart 3D Inspection for Food Processing | LMI Technologies

Meat Processing Optimization

Gocator laser profilers scan a piece of meat (through a gap in the conveyor belt) to determine the total volume. With the 3D volume and density information, users are able to optimize the dimensions and quantity of slices extracted.

Easy Sensor Mounting

High-sensitivity 3D sensors for inspection of challenging surfaces

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Supported by FactorySmart® AI

FactorySmart AI provides a turnkey solution to help you leverage the power of AI in your factory.

Gocator onboard software allows you to easily tag finished products for downstream tracking.

Gocator® 2440

3D Shape Data

Gocator generates critical 3D shape data for volumetric measurement of the target. 2D vision does not generate shape data.

Native Multi-Sensor Networking

Multi-sensor layouts (e.g. with 3 sensors) deliver 360º scan coverage of the target, with automatic image stitching to build a single 3D image for measurement and inspection.

Cheese Portioning Optimization

Gocator laser profilers scan blocks of cheese and communicate cutting decisions to a slicer to produce smaller portions of a designated target weight.

High-sensitivity 3D sensors for inspection of challenging surfaces

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Gocator® 2440 series

Tag & Track

Gocator onboard software allows you to easily tag finished products for the purpose of downstream tracking.

PLC Communication

Gocator provides built-in I/O communication to PLC to create a closed loop system of scanning, calculating, and cutting.

Optimize for Resolution and Field of View

Gocator laser profilers come in various field of view and resolution models for different sizes and shapes of cheese.

Automated Dough Processing

Gocator laser profilers scan dough traveling on a conveyor, generating 3D data to inspect for minimum and maximum height thresholds and to detect defects in the surface quality of the dough such as cracks or dents.

Built-in Measurement Tools

Onboard tools allow users to take area and volume measurements without having to invest in 3rd party vision software or develop custom tool sets on their own.

Gocator® 2440

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Wide Field Of View

Gocator laser profilers can achieve fields of view up to 2m wide for wide conveyor applications such as baked goods production.

High-sensitivity 3D sensors for inspection of challenging surfaces

Onboard Data Processing

The ability to process scan and measurement data onboard the sensor minimizes latency and speeds up the inspection process.

Automated Multi-Lane Potato Sorting

After receiving rough sorting, singulation and washing, potatoes enter a high speed multi-lane sorting machine. This machine sorts upto 8 lanes of potatoes, traveling side by side. A single Gocator 2350 is mounted above the lanes and outputs the resulting length, width, and height measurement to a PLC. The PLC activates the corresponding air fingers to sort each potato into a bin with similar-sized potatoes.

2D + 3D Data

Gocator generates pixel-by-pixel matched 3D and 2D data in a single scan with very high accuracy. Blemishes defects and other irregularities are easily visualized using these complete surface profiles.

Tracking of part decision and part position can be done in an external device, but this involves integration cost for added hardware and/or software. Gocator provides an all-in-one smart 3D sensor with built-in tag and track capability for precision control of downstream sorting/reject equipment

Smart Tagging and Tracking

Web-Based User Interface

Features such as the web-browser driven point-and-click environment for rapid configuration, built-in measurement tools and rich I/O for communicating results make it easy for factory technicians to get the results they need.

Gocator® 2350

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Workhorse 3D sensors for multi-lane inline inspection

Shrimp Volume Measurement

Gocator laser profilers are used to scan shrimp and sort them according to size and grade.

Gocator® 2440

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High-sensitivity 3D sensors for inspection of challenging surfaces

FactorySmart® Sensors

Today’s 3D smart sensors connect seamlessly with networks to communicate results, display diagnostics and statistics over web browsers, access upgrades over the Internet, and interface with factory equipment.

Customizable

Sensor customization allows users to develop and embed their own custom measurement tools directly into the Firmware itself—with the same functionality and ease-of-use as built-in native tools.

Cookie Inspection

Multiple Gocators scan and measure different cookies on a conveyor belt for automatic downstream packing. The sensors provide accurate measurement of the size, shape (e.g. diameter), position, and volume of each cookie. Surface defects are also detected for rejection of defective cookies by downstream sorting machinery.

Gocator® 2350

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6 degrees of freedom in Gocator sensor alignment allows the user to choose the axes on which offsets and rotations are calculated. This functionality provides important options to improve scan results and measurement accuracy in specific application scenarios.

6 DoF Alignment

Gocator laser profilers achieve fast scan rates from 2700 Hz up to 5000 Hz to meet inline production speeds.

Fast Scan Rates

Workhorse 3D sensors for variety of inline inspection applications

Variety of Multi-Sensor Layouts

Multi-sensor networks (e.g., reverse wide) with 50% laserline overlap deliver maximum scan coverage. Data generated from a multi-sensor network is automatically synchronized, aligned, and merged into a single 3D scan for measurement and inspection.

3D Smart Sensors for Food Processing Inspection

3D smart sensors provide an automated, non-destructive and cost-effective way to meet strict production, quality, and safety standards in the food industry. This inspection approach leverages 2D and 3D image analysis and data processing across a wide variety of applications to achieve 100% optimization and quality control.

3D Smart Sensors

Recommended Solution

Discover the myriad ways that Gocator® 3D smart sensors are used to improve the quality and efficiency of inline food production. From increased throughput to automating processes for maximum product quality and optimal material breakdown, LMI’s industry-leading FactorySmart 3D sensors deliver non-contact, easy-to-use, cost-effective, and high-performance scanning and inspection to every aspect of the food processing industry.

Food Portioning Software Tools

Walk-Through

In this demonstration we walk through the tools used to separate a tray of chicken breasts into discrete items, acquire the area of each chicken breast, identify the fatty surface regions, and calculate the surface fat to protein ratio. After setting up these measurements in the Gocator, it will take about 40 milliseconds to measure each cut of meat.

3D Inspection for Food Processing Applications

Webinar

In this webinar, we take an in-depth look at how smart 3D sensor technologies are used in a wide range of food processing inspection applications.

Loin Pull Grading

Industry Application

A front facing image of the loin is captured with a 2D camera. An AI model recognizes the fatcap and shoulder bone. Distance between these regions determines the grade. The shape of the shoulder bone is used to optimize the cutting blade upstream.

Correct grading and more meat per cut improves profitability due to higher price for better grade and bigger meat portions.

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