In the beverage sector, roughly 9 in 10 manufacturers intend to invest in new packaging or inspection technology in the next three years. These investments aren’t just about speed – they reflect rising demands for sustainability, product variety, automation and flawless quality. The good news: EyeVision is designed for exactly these challenges.
As a machine-vision and industrial image-processing platform, it helps beverage producers inspect, control and automate with clarity and efficiency.
Here’s how five major trends play out, and how EyeVision delivers, from a user-perspective.
1. Sustainable and flexible materials
Sustainability is driving change in packaging – from rigid plastic to recyclable cartons, paper, and aluminum. Each new material introduces different inspection needs.
EyeVision adapts seamlessly to all of them, using powerful image analysis for fill level, label position, and cap verification – even on shiny or textured surfaces. With systems inspecting over 1,800 containers per minute, EyeVision ensures sustainability doesn’t come at the cost of productivity.
2. More SKUs, smaller batches
As consumer preferences diversify, beverage producers are managing more product variants and frequent changeovers. EyeVision’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface allows operators to set up new inspection tasks quickly, without coding.
From bottle shapes to label designs, EyeVision recognizes the right parameters instantly – minimizing downtime and simplifying quality assurance, even in mixed-production environments.
3. Automation and smart integration
Automation is the backbone of modern beverage production. EyeVision integrates directly with PLCs, robots, conveyors, and reject systems using standard protocols like Profinet, OPC UA, and Modbus. Inspection data flows directly into your control logic – enabling automated quality decisions in real time.
With EyeVision, machine vision becomes an active part of your automation chain, not just a separate checkpoint.
4. High-Speed quality and safety
In beverage packaging, speed and accuracy go hand in hand. EyeVision ensures that even at line speeds of 2,000+ containers per minute, every bottle, can, or pouch is checked for fill level, cap closure, label orientation, and contamination.
5. Future-ready flexibility
Regulations, materials, and formats keep changing – your inspection system should keep pace.
EyeVision’s modular command library supports 2D, 3D, and color inspections across multiple hardware platforms. That means you can expand your vision capabilities over time, rather than replace your system.
Bringing it together
The beverage industry trends are clear: more formats, faster cycles, tighter quality and deeper integration. EyeVision offers a software-centric solution that addresses these trends, enabling inspection that is flexible, scalable and integrated.
For your production line, that means:
- One platform for cap, label, fill-level, thread and neck inspections
- One user-friendly interface that adapts to new SKUs
- Integration with your automation system and data flow
- A future-ready architecture that grows with you
When your line “sees” with EyeVision, you don’t just inspect — you control, automate and evolve.
