food manufacturer knorr has executed machine vision at its sachet packaging plant, which is located in heilbronn, germany to offer a quality check of the seals on the sachets. this system is consisted of insight explorer vision software with inbuilt patmax pattern recognition technology, cognex insight micro camera and a cognex visionview 700 visualisation panel. aku.automation of aalen, germany had installed the system. at stages of highspeed sachet production operations, sporadic production errors can occur in the final or filling sealing stage.