Cutting scrap on a high-speed porcelain line

The challenge. Meridian’s large-format line was losing tiles to glaze pinholes and pooling that hourly sampling didn’t catch until after firing — by which point the clay, glaze, and gas were already spent. Defects came in clusters, but nobody saw the pattern until the sorting table.

What we did. tyle.tech placed full-surface inspection at the glaze station, grading every tile at belt speed instead of a sampled handful. Flagged defects fed straight back to the press and glaze crews, and a reject gate pulled bad tiles before the kiln. Within weeks the team was correcting the line rather than sorting its output.