Concatenation of machine vision inspection results

A system for performing inspections of product instances during a production process, the system comprising:

• a product conveyor configured to move the product instances through the production process;
• a plurality of cameras positioned at different locations along the product conveyor, wherein each camera of the plurality of cameras has an associated field of view;
• control logic configured to perform a method comprising:
• for each camera of the plurality of cameras, storing a difference in location along an axis parallel to a direction of travel of the product conveyor of a field of view of the each camera relative to a field of view of view of another of the plurality of cameras;
• for each camera of the plurality of cameras, capturing images of product instances as the product instances pass through the camera's field of view on the conveyor;
• associating each of a plurality of images captured by different ones of the cameras as being images of a same product instance;
• based on one or more of the plurality of images of the same product instance, making a determination to reject the same product instance;
• determining that the same product instance has reached a rejection location along the product conveyor;
• and
• taking action to reject the same product instance at the rejection location.