EBIs is the international abbreviation for the long Empty Bottle Inspectors. Their history, however, is a brief one. They were born along with Optoelectronics' development. In 1958 it started to operate a first model whose imaging was not CCD-based. CCD sensors were yet to be created and looking to the year 1970, you’ll discover that US-companies were nearly monopolizing the world wide productive sector of the Machinery to fabricate glass bottles. Where were glass bottles production Lines, there it was a vital and welcome add-on the presence of an automated Quality Control. There is an additional reason why the EBIs were initially developed in the USA. Related to the fact that the original CCD-cameras (Charged Coupled Device), Optoelectronics' components were born classified as military top secret in end of the ‘60s. CCDs were originally developed to replace the analog camera systems orbiting the Earth, aboard of the military espionage satellites. They were born to count and determine the location of ballistic missiles silos.