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IT’S TIME TO DEMOCRATISE QUALITY ASSURANCE
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 can create items of different colours and shapes is problematic for traditional solutions, only capable of inspecting one product at a time.
MACHINE VISION: CUTTING THE COST
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…
IS THE MACHINE THE EXPERT?
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…
STOP FIGHTING A LOSING QA BATTLE
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…
DEFINING AUTONOMOUS MACHINE VISION – A NEW CATEGORY
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 advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”
Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft
BEND, DON’T BREAK
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.…
