The future of manufacturing environments is becoming increasingly intelligent. With Industry 4.0, and lean production strategies, many manufacturers are considering investing in intelligent, real time, and non-destructive machine vision (MV) systems for product manufacture fault analysis [2]. This technology is improving rapidly in both the industrial and consumer sectors [3]. This work presents the development of a low cost, user friendly embedded machine vision system for use in industrial snack manufacturing. Previous attempts at using a high cost ~£10000 system failed, due to inadequate knowledge for successful integration. The OpenMV cam M7 was procured as a low cost ~£100, simpler alternative. The system achieved 88% ±1% sensitivity and precision in detecting products on a live production line. Therefore this is a viable prototyping option for machine vision novices, enabling informed decisions thereafter
