Lizotte has equipment installed and in use around the world.
Many incorporate Machine-Vision image processing to sort and grade products.
Many provide automation to industrial processes.
All incorporate innovative solutions and state-of-the art technologies.
Area-scan cameras, using illumination from a linear laser-light projector, are in
use detecting surface rot on lumber.
Using visible light and area-scan cameras we are able to inspect the double-overlap
seam closure on canned products. This technology is well suited to non-round containers,
such as sardine cans and similar products.
We have applied visible-light area-scan cameras to the grading and sorting of various
seafood products.
These systems can incorporate grading and sorting by size, colour and defect.
Our x-ray inspection systems are capable of looking within a variety of products,
and discerning anomalies within.
This form of detection has wide ranging use, including: Detecting rot in lumber;
Finding contaminants is canned food; Discriminating between high meat and low meat
content lobsters;
Where appropriate, our graders and sorters incorporate multiple imaging stations
-Top-view and Side-view under different illumination
-Surface-view using visible light and Interior inspection using soft x-rays
At Lizotte we have added automation to many industrial processes.
- Our machine-vision based sorters and graders are not affected by drifting size-limits,
which can affect human graders.
- Our can-seam inspection systems are not subject to inattention and ennui that plagues
human inspectors.
- Our sardine packaging equipment does not suffer repetitive stress injuries; nor
does it need lunch and dinner breaks.
- In a lumber mill producing cedar and poplar laths we automated the processes from
hopper discharge through to pre-sorting for stacking.
- This moved an operator out of a position wherein he was continually entering the
working envelope of the sawyer, thus making both their
jobs safer.
