Gilead Sciences, an integrated biopharmaceutical company, manually inspects all incoming materials and final product which pass through their San Dimas manufacturing site. The first goal of this project is to design an automated pill inspection systems for Gilead’s IQA department using image processing techniques to deliver a software-based rules engine that will detect, classify and quantify defects. The second goal, spearheaded by the KGI side of the team, is to evaluate high throughput fully-automated inspection systems for Gilead’s manufacturing side.