The BMW plant in Steyr, Austria, is the BMW Group’s largest engine plant worldwide and is the only one to host a Diesel Engine Development Centre. At the facility, the…

Traditionally, plastic injection moulding is a difficult application for machine vision. The highly reflective surface of plastics is hard to illuminate correctly, and the fact that the same production line…

Quality assurance is mandatory in all industries, tiers and geographies. But existing machine vision solutions are often so complex, that end-customers have no choice but to rely on machine vision…

The Great Depression that hit the US in the 1930s was probably the worst economic recession ever registered. To guide the country out of it, President Roosevelt launched a series…

~ Autonomous Machine Vision (AMV) offers a new approach to visual QA ~ If humans had the eyesight of an eagle, we could spot an ant from the top of…

~ Improving quality in the automotive supply chain ~ Each year, approximately a million vehicles are recalled in the UK for safety repairs. In the USA, 23 per cent of…

~ Flexible machine vision systems improve manufacturing productivity ~ In metalworking, tensile tests are conducted to test the ductility of a material, often to determine the most suitable metalworking process.…

A recent study by the University of Michigan found that multi-tasking has a negative impact on productivity. When you think about it, it makes sense. How many times have you…

~ Implement Total QA with a variety of useful applications~ Autonomous Machine Vision systems are revolutionizing the manufacturing industry all over Europe. Safe, inexpensive, quick and easy to install, they…

~ The truth about machine vision technology ~ The floppy disk was once the cutting edge of storage, its design slowly decreasing in size as technology progressed. Over nearly 40…

~ Quality assurance that safeguards your product and plant ~ In George Orwell’s 1984, he conceives a futuristic dystopia where Big Brother watches over every citizen. While his concept of…

~ New technology is changing the machine vision business model ~ Kakeibo is the Japanese art of saving money. The concept, invented in 1904, involves keeping a budgeting journal to…

~ Breaking the chains of Traditional Machine Vision ~ In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the jealous stepmother of the protagonist orders the title character to be killed. Snow…

~ Industrial manufacturing will never be the same ~ “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model…

~ The opportunities presented by Autonomous Machine Vision ~ The book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman addresses the unconscious biases that influence human decision making. One…

~The benefits of Total QA ~ Research from the University of Warwick found that happiness made individuals twelve per cent more productive. Having a happy workforce may be the first…