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News Release from: Digital Inspection Systems | Subject: Cardboard optical sorting system
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 September 2005
Cardboard optical sorting system on
display
Digital Inspection Systems will be demonstrating the first UK built cardboard optical sorting system at the Waste Recycling show taking place at the NEC this week
Digital Inspection Systems will be demonstrating the first UK built cardboard optical sorting system at the Waste Recycling show taking place at the NEC this week Commissioned by CD Engineering who are engineers to the recycling industry, the concept was drawn up just 12 months ago during a first meeting between the two companies
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 28 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 'Fibresort' system was completed last month and commissioned only last weekend at a new recycling plant located in Suffolk and being run by Viridor Waste Management plc.
'Fibresort'' quite simply separates cardboard from other domestic waste using a series of pneumatic ejectors at the end of a conveyor belt which is running at 2 metres per second.
The brains behind the system is Scorpion Vision Software.
Using advanced colour matching techniques, the software analyses camera images in real time and reports the location of cardboard on the conveyor to the host PLC system.
Paul Wilson, MD of DISL said today 'This is a very exciting stage in the evolution of Scorpion Vision.
This is a real world application outside of our traditional manufacturing arena and demonstrates the fantastic abilities of PC based vision applications using standard firewire cameras'.
DISL and CD Engineering next plan to build bottle sorting machines which sort plastic containers at high speed.
DISL state that Scorpion Vision Software can easily be adapted to detect other materials and CD Engineering already have a strong reputation in designing and building the complete engineered solution.
Fibresort can be seen at stand 619 at RWM '05 until Thursday 15th September.
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