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Consumer Electronics Inspection Put to the Test
Every year, smartphones, TVs, tablets, and computers get more capable in terms of screen resolution and processing power. Better consumer electronics and more demand have led to volume increases. According to an October 2019 report from Kenneth Research, smartphone shipments will hit 2.97 billion in 2020. At the other end of the scale of consumer electronics screen size, IHS Markit forecast that 226 million TVs would ship in 2019. This deluge pressures manufacturers to increase throughput. So...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2020
Standards Bridge the Gap
New production trends such as IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and the smart factory are changing value chains, increasing efficiency with a greater number of interconnections and enhanced standardization. Accompanying technologies —...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2020
Advancements in 3D Vision, Software Bolster Bin Picking
Industrial robots are the key element in automating processes throughout the manufacturing sector, with their numbers rising globally each year. In the U.S., for example, their numbers reached 200 robots per 10,000 employees in 2017, ranking seventh...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2020
Deep Learning Put to the Test
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted scores of companies to invest in this type of software. This bodes well for the vision industry, as the technological leap is needed. But how will this purchase affect users at the...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2019
Hyperspectral Imaging Finds Its Niche
Hyperspectral imaging has a long history of successful applications in the field of remote sensing, but only recently has it matured enough to find success in industrial settings, including applications in pharmaceuticals, food production,...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2019
Vision Systems Regulate Traffic, Improve Safety
On the roads at any given moment, there are traffic accidents, stopped vehicles, and drivers going the wrong way on one-way streets. All of these incidents adversely affect traffic flow and lead to congestion, delays, and, sometimes even secondary...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2019
Machine Vision Makes the Move to IoT
One of the most hyped technologies in recent years has been the Internet of Things (IoT), a trend that has entered our consumer lives via home monitoring systems, wearable devices, connected cars, and remote health care. These advancements have...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2019
Analyzing 3D Data for AI-Powered Robotic Automation
There’s increasing interest in deep learning for 2D images, from facial recognition to manufacturing, spurred by the promise of the IIoT. And today, a growing faction believes employing relatively inexpensive cameras to capture 2D images and...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2019
Vision-Guided Systems Bring Precision to Fluid Dispensing
Robotic fluid dispensing is essential for applications that require extremely accurate and repeatable fluid deposit placement, complex dispensing patterns, and/or high-volume throughput. The precise positioning and quantity of these fluids deposited...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2019
For Carmakers, Inspection Flexibility Makes the Difference
Building a car is a complex process, and it’s getting more complex every year. There are thousands of parts to inspect for quality and conformance to ever tighter specifications. What’s more, these parts must be tracked, and variations...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2019
Fixing Image Warping Caused by Heat-Induced Turbulence
It is well known from astronomical imaging that numerous atmospheric conditions and weather effects have an impact on image quality. This is caused by local changes in the refractive index of the air in the optical path. These changes are...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2019
Optical Advancements Enable High-Precision 3D Imaging
As robotics and automation change the face of manufacturing, demands on industrial inspection have increased. Advancements in engineered point spread function (E-PSF) technology are now allowing manufacturers to incorporate high-resolution 3D...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2019
Laser Triangulation Tackles Imaging Tasks Big and Small
Spurred by technological advancements, 3D vision has in recent years moved into the mainstream of automation. The benefits of 3D are increasingly in demand and, as a consequence, the number of vendors offering it has grown dramatically, while the...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2019
Great Expectations for Vision-Guided Robotics
As the manufacturing world considers the potential for Industry 4.0, machine vision for industrial robotic guidance continues to be a critical enabling technology for realizing the diverse needs of flexible automation and smart manufacturing,...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2019
Ever-Vigilant: Machine Learning and AI Move into Surveillance
The business of surveillance, whether by still or video camera, is booming. It’s being driven by military, industrial, and commercial customers as well as consumers. According to a report by BIS Research1, the video portion of the market will...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2019
Innovations in Machine Vision Bolster Food Inspection
Machine vision has long been employed effectively in packaging inspection, where barcode readers and cameras verify that boxes are properly labeled. Increasingly, vision is playing a critical role in food processing. Automated inspection systems can...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2019
Deep Learning Boosts Defect Recognition Rates
As processes become highly automated and universally networked within the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), digitization is fundamentally changing industrial production. The production routine at manufacturing companies involves various machines...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2019
A Closer Look at Resolution Testing
In the days of VGA video cameras and predominantly analog storage, it was easy to make an imaging lens that would outperform the camera’s ability to capture an image. That’s no longer the case. Where 640 pixels once stood, it is not...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2019
The Integration of Machine Vision with Motion Control Is Transforming Bin Picking, Part Inspection
Historically, robots have improved manufacturing processes through mechanical, repetitive motion. In a typical operation, the arm of an industrial robot followed a preprogrammed sequence of movements, sensing or reasoning only as needed for motor...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2019
From Vision-Guided Robotics to Smart Cameras, Turnkey Systems Offer Versatility
Integrators and operations managers must consider numerous choices when implementing turnkey vision systems in industrial environments. Depending on the application, systems are generally developed in four broad categories: single or multiple smart...
Vision-Spectra.com, October 2018
3D Sensing Bolsters Robotic Guidance
With prices falling and performance rising, 3D vision, or depth sensing, is showing up in new applications, including allowing robots to map places and tasks, such as figuring out how best to avoid people. Other uses include pick-and-place, combined...
Vision-Spectra.com, September 2018
Vision Systems for 3D Measurement Require Care to Ensure Alignment
Calibration, pointing accuracy, and repeatability are critical to the success of vision systems for measurement. This is especially true for precise 3D multicamera measurement applications where single-pixel measurements are needed to help machine...
Vision-Spectra.com, June 2018
Hyperspectral Imaging Fights Food Waste
Despite being the world’s most globalized industry, agriculture is extremely inefficient. Global supply chains have been mechanized but not information-enabled, and they have not yet fully benefited from the explosion of digital technologies that...
Vision-Spectra.com, May 2018
Hyperspectral Machine Vision Enables Smart Automation
Conventional vision systems often fail to sort items that have similar colors or appearances. In these cases, hyperspectral data combined with spatial pattern recognition algorithms can detect a wide range of materials, patterns, coatings, defects...
Vision-Spectra.com, March 2018
Application-Specific Machine Vision Simplifies Aircraft Maintenance
Machine vision systems, however automated, do not exist in isolation. They must augment and intelligently interact with human operators. Workflows can benefit from 3D optical vision systems. In particular, vision systems technology shows significant...
Vision-Spectra.com, March 2018
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