The need for best practices within the vision technology industry has been addressed over time through system integration certification and interoperability standards.
The need for best practices within the vision systems industry arose almost as soon as end-of-use companies began implementing vision systems technology in their operations. While these vision systems would ultimately help augment companies’ quality and output, they often struggled with the task of successfully integrating it into their businesses.
“Companies that do all of their integration with in-house personnel discovered that their teams needed more training to successfully install machine vision or even simply to keep up on the rapid technology advances in the field,” says Dana Whalls, vice president at the Automated Imaging Association (AIA). So they turned to system integrator companies for their expertise. Unfortunately, that presented a new set of obstacles.