Prolongo-Faccsa embeds AI inspection across dry cured sausage and meat production chain

With over 200 years of tradition, Prolongo-Faccsa knows that quality is built into every stage of production. When the company joined the ALIMENTE21 research consortium, the ambition was to find out how far AI-powered vision could go in automating the inspection challenges that had always required human expertise: reading the subtle signs of a curing batch reaching its peak, detecting contamination invisible to the naked eye, or locating a fragment hidden between slices. The answer, developed over four years and six applications, was further than anyone had expected.

Key Benefits

• End-to-end food safety. Automated inspection with AI across drying, processing and packaging.

• Reduced curing time and energy use. AI vision predicts batch readiness. AI vision predicts batch readiness.

• Predictive maintenance. Equipment wear identified before a breakdown occurs.

• Single platform. Six distinct inspection applications running on one controller, software environment and AI framework.

At a Glance

Prolongo-Faccsa, a Spanish meat producer, wanted to ensure quality, safety and efficiency across its production chain, from the drying room to the packaging line. Prolongo-Faccsa and OMRON participated in ALIMENTE21: a four-year collaborative R&D programme co-funded by Spain's Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), under the Ministry of Science and Innovation, that deployed AI-powered vision and predictive analytics across six distinct applications. Using OMRON's FH Series Vision System, the project demonstrates how a single integrated platform can address fundamentally different inspection challenges within one unified architecture.