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What 100% Inspection Really Is
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I don’t know about you, but over the years, I have certainly heard the term 100% inspection loosely thrown around on more than one occasion. According to the FDA’s requirements for label inspection, 100% inspection refers to single run product inspections that are carried out by machines vs. 200% inspection, which refers to double run product inspections carried out by humans.
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Louis Roy, President
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How We Really Carry Out OCV Inspection
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Inspection Frames
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Error Detection
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Providing vision inspection solutions to the pharmaceutical industry is a highly-competitive endeavor; something we have been reminded of again only recently. Not too long ago, a number of our clients were kind enough to bring to our attention that some individuals within the industry have been taking it upon themselves to explain how our Optical Character Verification (OCV) works on our systems. |
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Making Product Packaging Safer
Safety features on over-the-counter (OTC) medications have been evolving over the last 40 years. In the 1960s and 1970s, safety features began appearing on certain medications to prevent children from accidentally poisoning themselves. However, the perceived safety of OTC’s and other products abruptly changed after the 1982 cyanide poisoning of Tylenol capsules, which resulted in the death of seven people. This event in turn, changed the field of packaging forever.
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Questions & Answers
This new section features some of the most frequent questions we encounter in the field of Vision Inspection.
Is it possible to inspect multiple components that are located at different positions on a product, without installing multiple cameras?
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Trade Show Updates
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The unveiling of our Unit-Dose Foil Inspector, powered by Optel Vision’s enhanced Version 2 Software, at Interphex New York this past April was a much anticipated event. The Optel Vision Unit-Dose Foil Inspector, with its exclusively designed inspection head, is an automated system that inspects and grades all major linear symbologies, as well as RSS and 2-D Composite bar codes on even the most difficult to inspect surfaces. With its already low false-reject rate, the Unit-Dose Foil Inspector will not only ensure accurate unit-dose product packaging, but will reduce a packaging line’s overall operating costs.
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Web Sightings
Industry news and views from informative and interesting web sites from around the globe. From bar codes to blister packs and more...
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For a FREE EVALUATION of your vision inspection application,
call Optel Vision today at 1-866-688 0334 or 1-418-688 0334.
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September 26-28, 2005
Las Vegas
Booth N-10529
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