Abstract :
Industrial automation deals primarily with the automation of manufacturing, quality control and material
handling process. The pharmaceutical industries also indulged in using Mechatronics systems for making their
production process automated and less of defects. Due to high rate of production, the automation finds its application
in packaging process of drug blisters with accuracy in numbers. The count of drug blisters in the boxes should not
vary with the desired value as the quantity is one of the parameter that determines the overall equipment efficiency
(OEE) of the manufacturing process. The paper deals with the algorithm for counting the drug blisters packed in
boxes using image processing. The series of process involves image enhancement, thresholding, segmentation,
filtering, subtraction and region based statistic to inspect the boxes of drug blisters in conveyer line.
Keyword :
automation, blister sorting, image processing