Machine vision uses cameras, networks and increasingly AI to “see” what is happening during a production process. It is already widely used across a range of packaging applications such as label inspection, code verification, fill-level and completeness inspection and reject handling. We speak to three experts in the field to learn more. 

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Representing companies active in this varied field, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) was founded in Barcelona in 2003 and is a non-profit, non-commercial association that represents the machine vision industry in Europe and initiated the conversation for this report. 

Elisabeth Skoda speaks to experts from three member companies, Torsten Wiesinger, General Manager, EMEA at LUCID Vision Labs, Rick de Vries, Sales Director Europe Industrial Equipment Manufacturing Group at Advantech, and Simon Knapp, Global Head of Vision Solutions at Murrelektronik, to find out how machine vision systems’ growing capabilities can support the packaging industry.

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