At PPMA 2025, inspection equipment specialist Fortress Technology debuts a fully automated top and bottom label inspection solution, ensuring complete compliance with retailer food safety and labelling requirements.
In 2024, labelling errors accounted for almost a quarter of all UK food recalls. Addressing this, Vyper Vision from Fortress Technology gives food processors a high-speed, easy-to-integrate vision inspection system. Inspecting label application and placement, use by dates, allergens, ingredients, batch numbers and barcodes, it examines every label on every pack at 200ppm.
Adding to its expertise in metal detection, X-ray, checkweighing, combination systems and digital reporting, Fortress Technology will show how Vyper Vision is optimising quality control on a single end of line inspection machine. By preventing label-related defects reaching the point of sale due to wrong data input, poor quality printing or illegible allergen details and barcodes, Vyper Vision can safeguard consumers and prevent the issuing of costly food safety alerts and recalls.
Vyper Vision will be demonstrated on a Raptor Combination metal detector and checkweigher within the same footprint. Providing top and bottom inspection, the system uses advanced optical character recognition (OCR) to detect and reject faulty labels, printing errors and poor quality print in real time.
“The accuracy of OCR technology means that Vyper Vision is especially good at reading label data on concave packaging, usually shaped or chilled products where condensation can distort text and codes on labels,” claims Fortress Commercial Manager Jodie Curry.
OCR also adjusts to variable lighting conditions and variations in font sizes and label distortions, as well as adjusting automatically to different packaging types, adds Jodie. The camera is IP65-rated and is within a waterproof enclosure.
Ideal for all industrial food manufacturing environments, out of tolerance packs are instantly rejected into a lockable bin. Every reason for rejection is automatically captured as an image by the Vyper Vision system and is sent as a digital file to a processors central network where it can be stored electronically.
Fortress Technology debuts a fully automated top and bottom label inspection solution at PPMA 2025
Designed to be easily integrated into any Fortress inspection system, Vyper Vision can be seamlessly connected to a customer’s centralised data and reporting system utilising various communication adaptors such as OPC UA. Vyper Vision is also compatible with Contact 4.0, Fortress Technology’s turnkey system for monitoring, data collection and reporting.
Vyper Vision can also be programmed to inspect special promotional labels, 2D and 1D barcodes, as well as special cooking and storage instructions.
For a full demonstration of Vyper Vision and how it can further enhance quality control visit the Fortress Technology stand B32 at PPMA Total 2025.
At 200ppm, Vyper Vision on the Raptor Combi examines every label on every pack as it is being inspected for contaminants and weighed.
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NEW: Vyper Vision unveiled at PPMA 2025
At stand B32, Fortress Technology introduces a fully automated top and bottom label inspection solution. At 200ppm, the PPMA exhibit shows how Vyper Vision inspects every pack label as it is being checked for contaminants and weighed, ensuring complete compliance with retailer food safety and labelling requirements.
Vyper Vision is being demonstrated on a compact Raptor Combination metal detector and checkweigher, identifying that the correct labels are applied, every character is correct, and that allergens are clearly readable. Minimising the risk of label-related recalls, Vyper Vision is easily integrated into existing data reporting systems.
