Video surveillance and packaging: an integrated intelligent system of video cameras to increase production efficiency.

Comitel, a system integrator with 30 years’ experience took on a very ambitious challenge in responding to the needs of their client Senzani Brevetti, an Italian company specialized in the production of machinery and technology for automatic packaging systems.

The prime requirement for Senzani Brevetti was to install a video-surveillance system in their client’s packaging plant with the aim of providing constant and continuous monitoring of the functioning of machinery equipped with very fast-rotation mechanisms. Another requirement was the possibility of being able to study recordings at any moment in order to identify problems emerging during production. As the plant in question works at very high speeds (240 packages per minute), it was in fact hard to understand at which point a malfunction had occurred with the naked eye. It was therefore necessary to identify a solution that allowed for advanced and continuous monitoring even in the absence of production control staff, in order to be able to identify the event and analyze it.

There were various advantages gained by the client with the adoption of this solution, all of which translated into an increase in efficiency and productivity from the plant. In fact, this solution requires the presence of just one operator who, via a monitor positioned externally on the machine, can check that the plant is functioning properly in real time.

This project provided the system integrator Comitel with an opportunity to offer the market highly customized video surveillance solutions in which differing systems and technologies are able to communicate and integrate with each other in order to provide as exhaustive responses as possible to client requirements.

High levels of customization and integrability are the distinctive elements that form the cornerstones of the Axis and Milestone solution designed and implemented by the system integrator Comitel for the company Senzani Brevetti, not only aimed at increasing the production efficiency of the system, but also at reducing personnel costs and simultaneously responding to important aspects regarding the protection of privacy. “It is certainly unusual to use video surveillance cameras in industry. In fact, the monitoring of processes requires high-performance video cameras that are usually very expensive and restricted in their range of use.