In-Sight 3800 Series
General-purpose, AI-powered vision system designed to handle high-speed, high-resolution inspections across a wide range of manufacturing applications.
The importance of classifying and sorting in pharmaceutical operations
Classifying and sorting pills, tablets, and capsules involves identifying and categorizing tablets based on attributes like size, shape, color, and coating.
Sorting sends each item to the correct destination, ensuring properly identified, quality-assured tablets go to packaging. AI-powered vision systems provide fast, reliable performance -- enabling precise counting and real-time classification. This technology is essential to support regulatory compliance and ensure every unit meets quality standards.
Overcoming challenges in high-speed tablet classification
Traditional oral dosage processes are labor-intensive, error-prone, and often struggle to handle the visual complexity of tablets, pills, and capsules.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers face several challenges:
- High-speed production demands precise counting and routing without bottlenecks
- Tablet variability in shape, coating, and reflectivity
- Irregular orientations make consistent identification difficult
- Tablets stuck together can cause miscounts or skipped units on high-speed conveyors
Cognex machine vision systems solve these challenges using powerful image formation technology, AI, and robust lighting and optics.
Cognex machine vision systems use AI to categorize pills in blister packs and consistently identifies defects.
Optimizing pharma & medical manufacturing quality with Cognex AI
Cognex AI technology learns by example. By analyzing labeled images of good and bad pills, it learns to identify variable pharmaceutical features, such as colors, shapes, and sizes. The more images it analyzes, the better it understands subtle nuances and features.
An AI-powered machine vision system lets pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers reduce waste, easily comply with regulations, boost efficiency, and protect their brand. Cognex solutions deliver the precision and reliability needed to maintain safety and efficiency, including:
- High-speed counting: accurately count tablets in real time, even on fast-moving lines
- Visual classification: sort tablets by size, color, and shape to support multi-product workflows
- Flexibility: handle complex visual variations with AI-powered classification models
- Consistent throughput: maintain production speed without sacrificing accuracy
- Compact form factor: seamless integration into existing systems.
With support available when you need it, from on-demand resources to a global network of experts, Cognex gives pharmaceutical manufacturers confidence that every product and batch meets the highest standards.