ImpactVision is a machine learning company, applying hyperspectral imaging technology to food supply chains in order to improve food quality, generate consistent, high-quality products and reduce waste. ImpactVision software is aimed at food processors, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. It provides real-time insights into the quality of foods. For example, the...
While lithium battery brings convenience to people’s life, its safety is also concerned by everyone. The violent combustion of electrolyte will penetrate the metal plate, and the explosion limit of pyrolysis gas is higher than that of hydrocarbons. The thermal runaway reaction of lithium battery is easy to cause dangerous events, and its high temperature characteristic i...
The measurement of powder or lyocake substances is a frequently encountered and demanding task in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The Chauvin Arnoux company Indatech solved it with its HypeReal system based on hyperspectral cameras from the Finnish manufacturer Specim.
Strelen Control Systems GmbH uses a hyperspectral camera from the Finnish manufacturer Specim to check nuts before processed in the food industry. High-precision nozzles shoot faulty parts and foreign bodies out of the process in flight. There is only a little time left for reliable image processing.
Inndeo, a Spanish company founded in 2016, uses Specim’s hyperspectral imaging technology to improve the quality inspection processes and increase automation in the food industry. With hyperspectral imaging, they can detect contamination and defects in the production lines and characterize different food quality parameters.
More and more waste is being produced globally, and it ends up in waste management facilities. Waste Robotics is on a mission to develop cutting-edge waste management solutions that will dramatically increase the number of waste types that can be identified, recycled, and reused. With SpecimONE hyperspectral imaging platform, Waste Robotics can now gain ground-breaking i...
Taste is paramount in food products, impacting consumer preferences and purchasing decisions. Condi Food BV harnesses hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to ensure the perfect taste of tomatoes.
Picvisa is a Spanish company with over 20 years of experience providing machine vision solutions for waste treatment, recycling, and various industrial processes. Specim has provided Picvisa with hyperspectral cameras that classify materials based on their chemical composition.
A French company, Indatech has developed a new technology for powder and tablet analysis that relies on the innovative use of optical probes using several optical fibres to measure the surface of the sample. All the fibres are connected to a Specim NIR hyperspectral imaging system.
Quality assurance is of utmost importance in pharmaceutical products. Striving for the world where drugs are reliably monitored and tracked, SEA Vision has introduced hyperspectral inspection solution HARLENIR, the combination of SEA Vision software and Specim camera technology which reveals the chemical composition of a pharmaceutical product and guarantees 100% inspect...
Improve your product’s quality and safety. Define meat’s chemical quality: lean/fat content, protein, water, tenderness, and find and remove foreign materials like bone, cartilage, plastics, wood, rubber, metal, or parasites. Specim FX cameras can reveal much more than traditional color and filter cameras or point spectrometers.
Oil is used in many industries as a lubricant. In the final product, oil is usually considered a pollutant, which is crucial to detect. However, oil is complicated to see with the human eye, and therefore traditional RGB cameras are not capable of detecting it. Hyperspectral cameras, on the other hand, should be able to capture this information when operating on the righ...
Monitoring and controlling food quality is of the most significant interest for profitable and responsible food production. Especially fruits and vegetables are more sensitive than other food products and must be sold and processed fresh to be valuable and healthy. Hyperspectral imaging provides crucial data for automatic quality control systems to assure the high qualit...
Glues and adhesives are widely used in many industrial applications, from packaging and construction to electronics and aerospace, to mention a few. Glue is expensive, and using just the right amount is crucial as it can save on costs, increase production, and reduce waste. Applying too little or too much glue is often the cause of quality failures, such as pop-opens. ...
Specim’s hyperspectral cameras help to ensure the highest quality in any type of nuts: almonds, cashew, walnuts, pistachio, peanuts, and so on. It allows collecting the data at industrial speed from hundreds of wavelengths, reaching a 100% inspection rate instead of just one point. The data can be used to detect, for example, discoloration or mold and identify and remove...
Food producers must ensure the quality of their products at every step of the process. At different steps of the processing chain, food can be contaminated and become a health hazard. The quantification of several parameters, such as fat, moisture, sugar, and protein content, is crucial to provide high quality. A contaminated food package, or a mismatch in the labeled an...
Machine vision manufacturers widely use Red-Green-Blue (RGB) cameras. These cameras are suitable for characterizing objects based on their shape and color. However, since only three visible bands are available, their identification capability is minimal. Hyperspectral technology may be used for more demanding applications to measure objects or scenes by recording hundre...
Large quantities end their life in a landfill or incinerators, never being recycled at all. Only a small portion of plastics have value to the recycling industry, but it is costly and time-consuming to separate these high-value materials.
Quality control is crucial in the food industry. Monitoring the nutritional properties of food products contributes to brand reputation and profit. Consumers monitor fat content carefully when buying meat, and producers have to document it precisely. Monitoring the fat content also has a significant cost-benefit effect. New automation technologies are therefore required...
Moisture content is a crucial parameter in many industries: - For the food industry, moisture strongly correlates with the product quality and freshness. It also needs to be monitored appropriately when one is producing dry fruits. - Monitoring the moisture level of fuel (e.g., wooden ships) is crucial to optimize the burning process and efficiency. - In the paper ind...
Quantitative models based on spectroscopy are efficient, non-destructive, and accurate for monitoring the moisture content. Hyperspectral cameras also reveal the spatial distribution of moisture, whereas point spectrometers provide only general distribution.
The environmental benefits of recycling are clear. Recycling conserves natural resources and reduces greenhouse gases and pollution, and the use of fossil fuels in energy production. It reduces energy consumption by about 70 % for plastics, 60 % for steel, 40 % for paper, and 30 % for glass.
The discovery of foreign objects often results in product recalls, which can be costly for businesses and damage the brand’s reputation. To ensure the quality and safety of food products, manufacturers must implement robust quality assurance throughout the production process, where hyperspectral imaging offers a solution.
Detect blemishes and bruising under the skin, define ripeness and chemical quality independent of the fruit color and size, find and remove foreign materials like plastic, wood, paper, metal, or insects. Specim FX cameras can reveal much more than traditional color and filter cameras or point spectrometers. Achieve better quality, ripe products with optimized shelf life,...
1.5 Nail Penetration The nail penetration test evaluates the safety of the battery by penetrating the steel needle through the sample at a certain speed. The steel needle passes through the battery, damaging the integrity of the electrode and diaphragm, resulting in a short circuit in the battery and continuous heat generation. The severity level of nail penetration test...
In 2020, the automobile industry has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the automobile related industries and the automobile transportation industry have developed rapidly, and the automobile has become an indispensable means of transportation in people's lives. The safe driving of the car is also particularly important, when a car is in high-speed movement, the unbalance...
At the forefront of sterilization and safety, autoclaves stand as indispensable tools in a wide range of sectors, from healthcare and life sciences to the food industry and research. Essential for effectively eliminating all types of microorganisms with high-pressure steam, these machines depend crucially on preventive maintenance for their efficiency and operational saf...
We seek companies to participate in a FREE round-robin research project utilizing ASTM / ISO /TAPPI standards. Labthink helps companies with their packaging and flexible materials challenges. We would like to let you know about our free interlaboratory studies utilizing ASTM/ ISO and TAPPI standards. Participation in this study will allow you to see how your testing pro...
In recent years, countries around the world have continuously increased policy support for new energy vehicles, and car companies such as Tesla have also launched new models. It has led to the rapid growth of the global electric vehicle market. However, the fire and explosion accidents of electric vehicles have occurred many times, making the safety issue the focus of co...
Lithium ion power batteries have been widely used in the field of electric vehicles due to their high voltage, high specific energy, and good cycling performance. 1 Test Taking a lithium-ion power battery with a rated capacity of 70Ah for electric vehicles as an example, a room temperature (20 ℃) capacity test and a low temperature (-20 ℃) capacity test were conducte...
From these aspects, we can see the correlation between environmental testing and reliability. Environmental test equipment is used to test and verify the reliability of any product in terms of environmental factors, just like taking a ruler with a scale to measure the length of other objects. If the scale is inaccurate, the measured length will not be accurate. Therefore...
Servomex has delivered reliable oxygen analysis to a green hydrogen technology group. CPH2, based in the UK, has developed a unique technology that uses cryogenic separation to deliver pure hydrogen and pure oxygen. It requires a robust, proven and highly accurate analyzer to detect the impurity of oxygen in its membrane-free electrolyser within a state-of-the-art hydro...
External climatic conditioning units or climatic generators are independent and movable units which allow acclimatisation of external enclosures under temperature and humidity conditions by connecting insulated hoses which supply air to an insulated enclosure positioned at a distance. The climatic conditions shall be monitored in the external test enclosure by me...
With the increasing application of large lithium-ion battery packs in the power grid, fire safety based on lithium-ion battery energy storage systems is becoming increasingly important. Based on the thermal runaway experiment of lithium-ion batteries, a small amount of combustible gas leakage was observed. By analyzing the composition of the leaked gas, CO content and sy...
In a world increasingly focused on sustainability and green technologies, hydrogen (H2) plays a pivotal role. It is emerging as a bearer of hope for green solutions ranging from energy production to mobility.
Lithium ion batteries have many advantages such as high specific energy, high specific power, and high voltage platform, and have good application prospects in energy storage and new energy electric vehicles. The cell structure of existing lithium-ion batteries can be divided into layered and wound structures. Compared with wound structures, stacked structures can increa...
