摘要 |
An inspection system includes a number of inspection machines (M1, M2, Mn) arranged in a row which sequentially inspect a bottle (10) as it is conveyed through the machines. Each machine determines whether the bottle should be rejected as a result of each inspection, and passes inspection data for that bottle in an Ethernet packet via an Ethernet cable connection to the processor of the next machine. The processor (Mn) in the last downstream machine accordingly functions as a supervisory computer to all the machines. <IMAGE> |