Pleora Technologies announces that Dairy Distillery is using its Visual Inspection System
by CM Staff
The Visual Inspection System helps the distillery reduce costs and avoid production downtime, as labelling errors can be avoided or detected earlier in the process.
Pleora’s Visual Inspection System helps Dairy Distillery reduce costs and avoid production downtime.
OTTAWA — On Jan. 12, Pleora Technologies announced that Dairy Distillery, a spirits producer that combines distilling techniques with a scientific process to transform milk into vodka, is using its Visual Inspection System to help maintain brand quality standards and reduce errors that increase operating costs and slow production.
Dairy Distillery uses a unique process that uses milk permeate, a byproduct left over after cream, fat, and proteins have been removed from whole milk for use in products such as butter, ice cream, and yogurt, to create a clean and pure spirit. Previously, milk permeate was considered a waste product that had to be disposed of at a cost to the farmer. Founded in 2018, the Almonte, Ontario based business now ships over 100,000 bottles of its flagship Vodkow Vodka and cream liquors to global customers. In 2020, the distillery became a major supplier of hand sanitizer to Ottawa hospitals and vaccination clinics as part of the fight against coronavirus.
“We’re a world-class product, and our packaging needs to look perfect every time,” said Neal McCarten, co-founder and Director of Marketing, Dairy Distillery. “When you say you’re making vodka from milk, it can be a leap of faith for a consumer until they taste the product. Our packaging fashioned after a traditional milk bottle and eye-catching labelling is a real shelf talker that helps a consumer connect with the story behind the product. Consumers often judge what’s inside a bottle based on its appearance.”
To help ensure brand consistency, the distillery uses Pleora’s AI-based Visual Inspection System to add decision-support for manual labelling processes. The camera-based system integrates pre-packaged AI plug-ins that are trained on a customer’s requirements to visually highlight product differences and deviations for operators and inspectors on a display.
The Visual Inspection System helps the distillery reduce costs and avoid production downtime, as labelling errors can be avoided or detected earlier in the process.
“Leading manufacturers are deploying our Visual Inspection System and realizing immediate cost and process advantages,” said John Butler, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Pleora Technologies. “For companies like Dairy Distillery, where brand and packaging play a significant role in consumer choice, our system ensures manual processes are consistent, reliable and repeatable so good products are always on the shelf.”
