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DMC was able to give onsite support to this remote customer within 8 hours and the plant was online within 24 hours of their contacting DMC. DMC was able to quickly diagnose and correct the issue despite not having worked with this customer&#8217;s particular system before. The issue was determined to be an excess of stored images on the computer. These images were removed using low level command line tools to prevent the system from crashing, and after repair, measures were taken to ensure this failure would not occur again. DMC also provided changes to the system which increased the accuracy of readings and decreased the need for human monitoring of the sorting process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"13713\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.dmcinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/27170415\/Vision-Camera-Image-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vision Camera Image\" class=\"wp-image-13713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.dmcinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/27170415\/Vision-Camera-Image-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.dmcinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/27170415\/Vision-Camera-Image-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vision Camera Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DMC was contacted by a California milk bottler to provide emergency support after the failure of their internal milk sorting system. 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