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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.
BOSCH WAIBLINGEN PLANT UTILISES AUTONOMOUS MACHINE VISION
The company tested the world’s first autonomous visual inspection product. In its plant in Waiblingen, Germany, Bosch produces plastic moulded connectors for the automotive sector. Plastic injection moulding…
HOW AUTONOMOUS MACHINE VISION CAN HELP WARD OFF THE LOOMING RECESSION
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…
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.…
CAMERA SPECS – NOT THE FRONTIER IN THE ERA OF AI
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…
“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
TRACING QA THROUGH TIERS
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…
