APPLICATIONS FOR PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT
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.
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…
WHAT IS TOTAL QA?
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…
CHALLENGING MACHINE VISION MISCONCEPTIONS
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…
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…
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THE POISONED APPLE EFFECT
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…