PECO Pallet Inc, a North American provider of rental pallet services, announced April 27 that it had completed the rollout of its new Vision-X automation system.

Vision-X was created with four objectives in mind. It aims to increase the accuracy of human inspections, replace time-consuming pallet sorting workflows, reduce the need for repetitive tasks, and improve inspection speed, efficiency and quality.

“We identified greater than 500 individual defects that can occur with a pallet,” said Joe Medeiros, PECO’s senior director of operations excellence. “It was very difficult to address those in an efficient and accurate manner, and we knew that increasing defect detection would be paramount to the success of the project. We built the technology with the ability to identify an anomaly within the thickness of a human hair. It is similar to what automobile manufacturers use to inspect cars for defects as they leave the factory.”