In the first article of this series, published in issue 4/2021 of Glass Mchinery Plants & Accessories, Niki Estner, Software Development Manager
at Bucher Emhart Glass, described how Emhart Glass Vision started using artificial intelligence (AI) for visual glass inspection in 2017. Since its original introduction, several additional AI based inspection solutions have been added to the already powerful inspection portfolio. 

It is clear that digitisation is the future of glass forming. But what will it look like, and how will we get there? Bucher Emhart Glass explains.

How do you ensure support, instruction and a timely start of operations when you are not allowed on the customer’s premises? This was the challenge the Mexican project team of Bucher Emhart and our customer Fevisa faced in the spring of 2020.

Artificial intelligence’, ‘Deep learning’ and ‘Neural networks’ are just some of the expressions we are learning about day by day, and which will soon be taking us all to the next level as we learn how to harness the power and apply it into new inspection technologies. 

Downstream ware handling performance is directly proportional to the placement of containers transferred onto the conveyor. Jarmo Kammonen explains how Bucher Emhart Glass has honed the pusher motion of its ware handling products.

In a series of articles that started in the September/October 2020 issue of Glass Worldwide, industry experts from Bucher Emhart Glass have discussed the importance of data being translated among the different systems in the glass container manufacturing process. In this final installment, Mike Rentschler discusses how cold end inspection systems are the ultimate smart sensors in the process. As noted in the first article in the series, speaking the same language is the key.