Real-time automatic machine inspection of plastic bottle closures

This thesis presents work done developing an automatic system for plastic bottle closures. These plastic closures ae manufactured at 20 per second and the inspection must be done in real-time at this rate. Two types of defects must be detected and the defective closures removed from the production line. Inspection by human operators proved to be unreliable and subjective, and an automatic inspection system was needed. A machine vision system is capable of producing reliable and repeatable results in an environment which is unpleasant to humans. An automatic inspection system was implemented on the production line. The development of this system is divided into three sections.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Electrical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

1995

Author dc:creator

• Bartleet, Trevor Clive

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• De Jager, Gerhard

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9643

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9643