Specifically designed for use in situations that require exact counts of boxes or trays of inserts/outserts for FDA compliance, validation or reconciliation purposes, Count Accura™ advances the state-of-the-art in insert counting via its use of a high resolution (6 Megapixels) camera and lens combination, excellent illumination, and proprietary image processing and analysis software.
This higher resolution imaging hardware and a lighting system that supplies uniform illumination over larger fields of view enable standard configuration Count Accuras to process bigger boxes of inserts than alternative offerings that are outfitted with less capable components. Boxes of inserts/outserts up to 12” by 24” in size and containing a maximum of eight rows of up to 250 inserts each can be handled by the standard product. Its design with flexibility in mind supports the configuration of custom sized solutions under circumstances involving boxes that exceed the standard system’s capabilities.
In addition, Count Accura’s ability to in a single image accommodate the sizable fields of view associated with larger boxes gives it implementation advantages over systems that require the use of multiple images (and possibly multiple cameras) to process them. And because Count Accura automatically locates containers of interest and positions the scanning lines used when counting, less setup is required of its operators, their manipulation of boxes is minimized and specialized fixturing is unnecessary.
All configurations created during setup are stored in data files. This allows for quick and easy retrieval and use of previously processed product parameters when faced with the same setups in the future.
Even though a 300% redundancy check is part of Count Accura’s processing, for particularly challenging cases involving very high count boxes and ones containing exceptionally narrow inserts a manual verification mode is available in which all inserts shown on the special results screen that gets displayed at high magnification are marked with very visible overlay lines that facilitate quadruple-check counting by extra careful or obsessive operators.
Counting times are less than 500 milliseconds and changeovers between jobs can be accomplished in under 30 seconds.
Three security levels (Administrator, Setup and Operator) are provided to give plant personnel access to only those functions necessary and sufficient for them to do their work. |
