Al Godwin AMGEN

Al Goodwin, B.Sc. (Eng.) HDip is a Principal Engineer at AMGEN. He has designed and implemented visual inspection systems over the last 25 years. He specifies and supports globally Amgen’s AVI systems for vials, syringes, plastic cartridges, and drug delivery devices. He has worked in Japan for 5 years on optical test measurement systems and at the Engineering Director level at inspection design companies based in Europe. In the last 15 years, he has worked closely with key International Machine Vision Software design companies and has used this experience in areas of optimization of particle detection, Glass flaw detection, and improvements, and evaluation of Vision Algorithm Robustness in the Biotech & pharmaceutical industries. In the last 5 years, his focus has been on how to achieve truly optimized AVI systems, not only by technology choice but understanding the key parameters that are responsible for AVI systems failures and introducing new embedded software to monitor these key parameters in real-time.