Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2024

Abstract

Industry 4.0, the digitalization of manufacturing promises to lead to lowered cost, efficient processes and even discovery of new business models. However, many of the enterprises have huge investments in legacy machines which are not 'smart'. In this study, we thus designed a cost-efficient solution to retrofit a legacy conveyor belt-based cutlery washing machine with a commodity web camera. We then applied computer vision (using both traditional image processing and deep learning techniques) to infer the speed and utilization of the machine. We detailed the algorithms that we designed for computing both speed andutilization. With the existing operational constraints of our client, frequent re-training of the deep learning model for object detection is not feasible. Thus, we compared the generalizability of the two techniques across 'unseen' cutleries and found traditional image processing to be generalizable across 'unseen' images. Our proposed final solution uses traditional image processing for computation of utilization but a hybrid of traditional image processing and deep learning model for speed computation as it is more reliable. Our client has implemented our proposed solution for one conveyor belt-based cutlery washing machine and will be planning to scale this to multiple conveyor belt-based cutlery washing machines.

Keywords

Industry 4.0, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Image Processing.

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Databases and Information Systems

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, ICCCI 2024, Leipzig, Germany, September 9-11

First Page

301

Last Page

313

ISBN

9783031702587

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-031-70259-4

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Cham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70259-4

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