Cognex In-Sight vision system is widely used in cosmetic hose inspection

 Shiseido was founded in 1872. Arinobu Fukuhara, then the chief pharmacist of the Japanese Navy, opened Japan's first Western-style pharmacy in Ginza, Japan's cultural center. In view of the uneven quality of pharmaceuticals at that time, most ordinary people took herbal medicine as the mainstream. However, Fukuhara Yunobu went in the opposite direction, introducing Western pharmaceutical concepts and based on sincere and professional research, making Shiseido a pioneer in the pharmaceutical industry. It has gradually developed into one of the companies with a long history in Japan. Shiseido's century-old heritage combines Eastern aesthetics, Western scientific research and business techniques to establish a trend-setting innovative spirit. To this day, this philosophy is still embedded in Shiseido’s various corporate activities.

The Cognex In-Sight vision system allows Shiseido America to methodically execute three similar tube packagings simultaneously on the same production line. The fully automated design uses a method of printing an identification mark (eye mark) on each hose seal to ensure that the correct product is in the hose.

Cognex Vision ensures that the eye mark on each hose is on the corresponding production line. In-Sight is particularly important in this application because its camera has both digital I/O to exchange logic signals with the PLC and an Ethernet port.
Ethernet provides Shiseido with tremendous flexibility. They can retrieve and display inspection images, change system variables stored in the camera, and change the vision tools used without having to enter the camera software.