Process automation

Process automation is an essential part of staying competitive. PHILRO INDUSTRIAL's expertise in areas such as in-line quality control, vehicle identification and access control, asset tracking, and automatic inventory or time tracking offers a way to optimise existing workflows without major investment in new systems.

Our process automation projects solve very specific problems and required close communication with the client to get the best results. Our specialists have extensive hands-on experience with this kind of application, and the solutions they developed have brought substantial benefits to the companies that use them.

For confidentiality reasons, the projects below cannot be described in detail.

These projects are based on real-time image detection and analysis, using specialised high-performance cameras and software built on machine vision libraries. Tasks that depend on human decisions based on visual inspection are automated, increasing throughput and reducing errors. Each project is analysed in detail to find the best solution while keeping as much of the existing infrastructure as possible, so the client needs to invest as little as possible in additional equipment.

Video analysis can be used in many applications, such as checking transparent containers for contaminants, checking barcodes and their traceability, checking that a container is complete, checking the number of products in a pack, or checking the dimensions of a product or part.

The video analysis module can be combined with any of the standard Minebea solutions (metal detection, checkweighing, etc.) into a single, fully automated solution.

These applications use "tags" (RFID tags, Bluetooth Smart beacons) attached to the assets that need to be identified and tracked (vehicles, equipment, employees). Depending on the requirements, tagged assets can be identified at a single point (for example for access control) or at several points (asset tracking, shelf inventory, automatic time tracking, etc.), making it possible to map their position over time and space, set up alarms for various events, and more.

PHILRO INDUSTRIAL has its own software development team and a test lab for automation projects. Every project is first tested in the lab or under conditions similar to production, so that installation at the client's site is as quick and efficient as possible.