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Pillar · Partner VAIBS

Image recognition & process monitoring

In most production and logistics environments, cameras are already in place, but the footage is rarely used to learn anything from. We turn that into a system: one platform that watches along on the cameras you already have — and where there are none yet, adding them is rarely the bottleneck. Not a device on the line that checks one thing, but one system that can handle dozens of different checks at once.

This lets you safeguard your quality system in the broadest sense — from product inspection to hygiene, progress and preventive maintenance — and get new employees up to speed faster. Where you now see afterwards that something went wrong, you will soon see why: the same day, with evidence that stands up to an audit.

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Two routes from the same camera: record and report immediatelyOn the left, an existing camera above a production line, with a detection frame around a deviation. From that one video feed run two routes. Top: every incident is recorded with time and clip, searchable by self-chosen topics and linked to the quality system, so the evidence is ready for an audit. Bottom: if something goes wrong, an alert goes straight to the team leader on the floor, so that action is taken during the shift.YOUR EXISTING CAMERAdeviationone video feedROUTE 1 · LOOK BACKRecord and retrievetime and clip, searchable by your own topics —evidence ready for the auditROUTE 2 · ACT IMMEDIATELYReport so that action is takenalert to the team leader on the floor, with theclip attached — adjust during the shift,not at the weekly reviewNo link to MES, WMS or ERP needed to get started
Two routes from one video feed. Every incident is recorded with time and clip, searchable by your own topics. And if something goes wrong, the alert goes straight to the floor — adjusting during the shift, not at the weekly review.
About VAIBS

The partner behind this pillar

VAIBS from Harderwijk makes existing cameras smart. The company is a European Platinum Partner of the Vaidio Video AI Analytics platform and adds its own, self-trained concepts to it. Vaidio is camera-independent and connects to virtually any ONVIF IP camera and existing VMS or NVR systems; all it needs is a video stream — no extra hardware, no replacement of your camera network. The platform now offers more than forty production and logistics analytics — from product inspection to behaviour and safety. It watches along and looks back, but does not replace your video management system: it does not control cameras. What VAIBS can do, and what is virtually unique in this market: demonstrate per AI model where the training data comes from, whether it was obtained with the client’s consent and how the model was trained — including that it contains no bias and does not profile on ethnicity.

Toepassingen

Use cases in practice

The platform is set up to operate within the GDPR and the EU AI Act. VAIBS supplies the platform; Supply Today takes the lead — from quality-system requirement (IFS/HACCP/GMP) and MES integration to a working operation, step by step through a staged approach.

01
Quality assurance in production and warehouse (IFS / HACCP / GMP)
“Our quality requirements are becoming ever more stringent, but visual checks are snapshots and hard to sustain with staff turnover. A seal that doesn’t close, a wrong label, a forgotten hairnet, or an order that ends up with the wrong customer — we often only see it afterwards, and the cause is anecdotal.”
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For whom
Producers with demanding quality systems (IFS, HACCP, BRC) and high recall pressure, and DCs handling high-value or fragile goods — pharma, electronics, premium retail, ingredients.
Solution
Cameras monitor the critical points across the whole chain. In production: the product (CCPs, foreign objects, seals, labels, line clearance) and the behaviour around it (PPE, handwashing, zone entry). In the warehouse: damage and handling at receiving, picking and dispatch, plus the match between item, order and destination before the shipment leaves the building. Every incident produces an event log with time and clip.
Outcome
Your quality system is linked chapter by chapter to concrete detections and KPIs — including personnel & hygiene and food defence, which are normally the hardest to demonstrate. Deviations are flagged in real time, fewer shipments reach the wrong customer, and audits and complaints are backed by hard evidence. That reduces recall risk and relieves your quality staff.
Worked out in a feasibility study at a fresh food producer. The platform is GDPR and EU AI Act compliant, trained on validated datasets, does not do ethnic profiling and can run offline. Supply Today translates the requirements into concrete detections, determines where in the flow inspection delivers most, and secures the GDPR route.
02
Accelerated onboarding: new employees up to speed faster
“Turnover in our production and logistics is high and our people come from very different backgrounds and languages. Getting new employees up to standard takes weeks, and in those weeks we see it in productivity and in quality.”
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For whom
Production and logistics operations with high turnover, seasonal or agency workers, and a workforce with diverse languages and backgrounds.
Solution
Video does two things here. It shows how a task should be done — short clips from your own line work across language barriers. The second is new: feedback on one’s own actions the same morning, not on an average in a weekly report.
Outcome
A shorter induction period, less productivity loss in the first weeks and fewer quality deviations due to inexperience. The feedback is also objective and the same for everyone, which makes the conversation on the floor easier.
The same camera infrastructure and detections that monitor the quality system provide the material for the feedback — no second installation is needed. Supply Today turns this into a working induction routine: who gets which feedback when, discussed by whom, and how it relates to existing training and quality agreements. GDPR compliant; the feedback is a learning tool, not a performance appraisal.
03
Making waste and raw-material overuse visible
“At the end of the week we see that a line uses more raw material than the standard, but not where it leaks away. Product on the floor by the slicer, overfilled bags, wrong mixing ratios — the figures show that it happens, not where and when.”
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For whom
Food and process manufacturers with multi-stage processing (washing, cutting, mixing, packing) and sensitivity to raw-material costs.
Solution
Cameras make the leak points visible — product on the floor, overfilled bags, cutting loss, wrong mixing ratios. The difference lies in the feedback: the alert goes straight to the team leader, with the clip attached, so that action is taken during the shift. Usually that runs via a screen at the line or in the control room, or via the VAIBS app; with the open API the alert can also land in your own systems. An MES link for figures per shift or supplier can come later.
Outcome
Targeted, substantiated waste reduction instead of general measures, and a shift that sees for itself what adjusting delivers. Indicatively 30–60% less defective or wasted output on affected lines (a range, to be verified per case).
Worked out in a discussion paper at a fresh food producer, where the overuse turned out to stem from a limited number of concrete causes in specific shifts. Supply Today translates the observations into a business case in kilos and euros.
04
Efficiency: explaining downtime, disruptions and slowdowns (OEE)
“MES shows that a line stops or runs slowly, but not exactly why. Wrongly stacked crates, pallets in the way, an operator bypassing a fault, manual rework slowing the line — that stays out of sight, so we steer on assumptions.”
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For whom
Production and packaging companies that steer on OEE and face repeated, poorly explained downtime or speed loss.
Solution
AI cameras recognise the patterns behind losses that MES does not record — wrongly stacked crates and pallets, machine bypass, manual rework, crossing flows. The insights enable targeted process, layout and workstation improvements; at the highest stage, AI outputs can help control line speed and changeover procedures.
Outcome
Richer, action-oriented root-cause analysis than MES alone; less and better explained downtime. Indicatively 10–20% higher line OEE on affected lines (a range, not a guarantee).
Worked out in a discussion paper: MES shows the effect, video shows the cause. Supply Today translates the visual cause analysis into concrete improvement actions on process, layout and behaviour.
05
Predictive maintenance
“Unexpected failure of a conveyor belt, depalletizer or shuttle brings the whole line to a halt. We maintain on a fixed schedule or only after a breakdown, while the wear was often already visible.”

Does my IT department have to free up time for this first? Not for a pilot: it can run fully isolated, outside your company network. For roll-out, IT is needed — access to the camera streams, and a server in the network or a cloud connection. That is a limited, one-off effort, and only comes up once you have seen that it works. A link with MES, WMS or ERP comes later still, only when you want figures per batch, supplier or shift.

Do I need to buy new cameras? Usually not: we start with what is already there. Where coverage is missing, buying more is rarely the bottleneck — a suitable camera costs a fraction of the installation and embedding. The bulk of the investment lies in getting it to work, not in the hardware.

One point of contact: we start with a low threshold (observing, stage 1) and build up in a controlled way to MES integration and predictive AI — you learn at low risk. Privacy is designed in, not bolted on afterwards: the platform is set up to operate within the GDPR and the EU AI Act — with audit trails, logging, blurring and ethically sourced datasets, offline or in a European cloud. Supply Today takes the lead and ensures embedding in the quality and management system; VAIBS supplies the platform. Not the technology but the working outcome is what counts.

We start with your challenge, not with a pillar — usually two or three come together
Mechanisation & implementation
Operational optimisation & algorithms
Supply chain transparency & data at source
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