Machine Manufacturing -Factory Automation: Vision Systems Design

Automotive Manufacturing	Turnkey Vision Systems
Measurement/Gauging	Web Inspection
Semiconductors/Electronics

Slowly, domestic PLCs increase in China (Mar 18, 2010)

Most Chinese users of PLCs tend to favour foreign brands; however, the proportion of domestic PLCs is forecast to rise slightly, according to a report from IMS Research.

Multiple cameras measure pipe geometry (Mar 17, 2010)

An innovative solution for measuring tube geometry and quality inspection in pipe production was developed by AICON 3D. The system works with 16 high-resolution digital FIreWire cameras from AVT.

Pork Process (Mar 1, 2010)

Robots and vision team to automate pork production

Sorting Color-Coded Cubes (Feb 1, 2010)

Machine vision and custom color image-processing combined with pneumatic actuators sort clothing identification tags at 300 parts per minute.

MEASUREMENT & GAUGING: Dynamic optics reduces speckle in laser illumination (Feb 1, 2010)

By projecting laser lines onto a moving object, or mounting camera and laser line source onto a moving robot arm, point clouds of data can be obtained and used to reconstruct a 3-D model of the object.

Production Necessity (Oct 1, 2009)
Jun Mitsudo describes advances in semiconductor inspection enabled by machine-vision algorithms, sensors, and processors Read More >>

More Factory Automation Articles >>