Federal Cartridge Co. (Anoka, MN) has been providing hunters and shooters with high-quality rimfire, centerfire and shotshell ammunition since 1922. Federal Cartridge, part of ammunition manufacturer ATK Ammunition Systems Group,
Japan is having a meltdown about quality "problems." The New York Times reported that in the wake of recent, large-scale recalls of defective products made by Toyota and Sony, Japanese
Over the years, machine vision has become an important tool for quality analysis. As a technology, it is well-suited for on-line improvement of the manufacturing process. Yet machine vision is not as ubiquitous on the plant floor as might be imagined.
While cost has gone down, machine vision performance has gone up, so says Marcel Singleton, founder and director of business development, The Value Engineering Alliance (Cambridge, MA). “If it can be done by machine vision, it can be done faster and better,” Singleton says.