FOOD & BEVERAGE
Machine vision and automation for food & beverage
High speeds and zero tolerance for contamination. Our group integrates inspection, labelling and automation systems that keep food and beverage lines running at full capacity while guaranteeing packaging integrity, traceability and labelling accuracy.
SECTOR FOCUS
Why food & beverage matters to AIS Group.
Food & Beverage is where the group runs the highest line speeds. From bottling and canning to bakery and dairy, we ship inspection, labelling and end-of-line automation tuned to the realities of FMCG throughput, allergen labelling, best-before date legibility and increasingly tight packaging recyclability rules.
HOW THE GROUP DELIVERS
Four companies. One sector playbook.
Each group company brings a specific layer to food & beverage — from inspection hardware and validated automation to vision AI and lifecycle service.
AIS Vision Systems
Bottling and capping inspection
Deep-learning vision for bottling and labelling lines — 360° label, cap and tamper-evidence coverage with the AIS REV 360 Compact, deployed at Almirall and SP Veterinaria.
AIS Vision Automation
Coding & marking for beverage
Industrial inkjet, laser coding and print & apply for the Irish beverage and dairy sector — Diageo, Glanbia and Ballina Beverages running on AIS-supplied solutions.
AIS Scanology
100% label verification
Inline label inspection and barcode grading for Douwe Egberts, Oerlemans Plastics and Centraal Boekhuis B.V. across the Benelux supply chain.
Rosepetal AI
Vision AI on real food lines
Production-deployed AI vision systems including bread loaf formation verification, multi-camera tuna can inspection and dairy-line label accuracy.
Solutions for food & beverage
What we deliver to food & beverage.
Roll printing and label inspection
Capping, filling and packaging control
High-precision metrology
Code reading and traceability
Robotic palletising and pick-and-place
Label and best-before date verification
USE CASES
Typical applications on a food & beverage line.
Drawn from real deployments across the four companies. If your line looks like one of these, we have a starting point already.
Bread loaf formation verification
Real-time inspection of bread loaves at the moulding stage to guarantee perfect shape consistency — catches defects operators miss after the first hour on the line.
Canning line inspection
8-camera 360° computer vision for metal containers and pull-tabs, deployed by Rosepetal AI on high-speed canning lines.
Best-before date OCR
OPTICAIS deep-learning OCR for low-contrast and dot-peen best-before, lot and batch codes on cartons, bottles and primary packs.
Allergen artwork proofing
Pre-press and inline GVD proofreading for allergen statements — exact match against approved artwork before the run starts.
Capping & fill-level control
AIS Hopper for 360° cap presence, height and torque indication; fill-level vision for transparent and opaque containers.
Robotic palletising
End-of-line palletising cells from AIS Vision Automation with vision-guided pick and case packing.
STANDARDS & COMPLIANCE
Validated for the regulations that govern food & beverage.
REFERENCES
Brands in food & beverage that run on AIS Group.
A selection of named manufacturers and brand owners in this sector that operate on group-supplied systems.
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