UKIVA Vision Award finalists announced

14 August 2012

The judging panel for the UKIVA’s ‘Most Innovative Machine Vision Project’ award have announced the three companies short-listed for the award.

The finalists are RNA Automation, Olmec-UK and STEMMER IMAGING.

The new award, forms part of the PPMA (Processing & Packaging Manufacturing Association) Group Awards and are designed to recognise the most innovative vision systems installed in the period between January 2011 to June 2012, taking into account a variety of factors such as increased productivity, safety and creativity.

RNA Automation’s nomination is for a rotating disc vision inspection system for use with food/pharmaceutical products.

Olmec-UK has designed and installed a vision system for the final inspection of ear drop dispensers prior to packaging.

STEMMER IMAGING has been nominated for its work in the development of the imaging system for the C-Cell bread & baked product quality assessment system.

The winner of the award will be announced on the evening of Tuesday 25th September 2012 - the first night of the PPMA Show and the result posted on the UKIVA web site shortly afterwards. www.ukiva.org