Machine Vision Based Quality Monitoring in Olive Oil Conditioning

Compliance with product specification and health measures is of major importance in agribusiness. Production idle time has to be kept to a minimum by preemptive maintenance and service. Operation of production lines has to be within severe safety conditions for workers as well as for food. Besides, high production rates need real time control that can't be done by human workers. Machine vision quality control is a very effective solution for real time quality control in high rate production lines. This paper discusses the feasibility of a video supervision system to be used for quality monitoring in olive oil conditioning line.