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Vision & Sensors

Self-learning Robots Solve Tasks with the Help of an Ensenso 3D Camera

Sabine Terrasi

Trying out different behaviours is one of the classic learning methods. Success or failure decides which behaviour is adopted. This principle can be transferred to the world of robots. …

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Vision & Sensors

Machine Vision: Inspecting Reflective Surfaces with Deflectometry

Johannes Hiltner

Machine vision processes have become standard practice in quality assurance. Inspecting reflective surfaces, however, presents a challenge. A technology known as deflectometry can be used to reliably detect all types …

Vision & Sensors

Investing in Lighting Control

Jools Hudson

Lighting and lighting control is a critical component of any machine vision system since it has a massive influence on the signal to noise ratio and contrast in the images …

Vision & Sensors

Better Processing Power Makes Fast and Precise Color Vision a Reality

James Mortell

In the past, the amount of processing power necessary to perform color-based machine vision applications was often an insurmountable hurdle. Even when manufacturers did offer color vision, they would typically …

Vision & Sensors

Trends in Machine Vision Sensors

Genevieve Diesing

Sensors that report a factory’s performance by measuring machine functioning, downtime, and production goals are in high demand. …

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Vision & Sensors

Thermal Imaging for Quality Control

Michael Beising

Thermal imaging can be used for quality control in many industries. It is a nondestructive inspection method, which is especially used to detect flaws that are not visible on the …

Vision & Sensors

Helping Robots Stay on Target

Elena Messina Jeremy Marvel

For decades, many manufacturers have counted on robots to tirelessly produce parts of predictable quality. One of the key attributes of robots is their repeatability, which means that their tool …

Partners

Post-Process Monitoring, Part 2

Darryl Seland

The fundamental goal of automation is to reduce reliance on manpower. Whether for traditional manufacturing or additive manufacturing, it is important to understand the capabilities of supporting post-process manufacturing and metrology for validating that process.

Material Science Quality within Microscopy

Manufacturers Show Their ‘Metal’ Using the Imaging Power of Digital Microscopes

Darryl Seland

Quality control of products with metal-based materials can be challenging, from working with recycled metals to the rise of additive manufacturing (AM).

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Growth

By Jim L. Smith

In some way, personal growth is almost always uncomfortable.

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Post-Process Monitoring

Darryl Seland

So, what do we mean when we talk of post-process monitoring? Quite simply, it is the process used to monitor both the process and the finished product against their specifications, which include logging process routines and results in order to inform the machining and finalizing of the product.

Manage Quality, Risk and Compliance InfoCenter

Company Projects: Get Everyone Involved

Michelle Bangert

Picture this. A workplace filled with staff members excited about their work, driven to do their best and striving for improvements every day.

Test & Inspection

Food, Glorious Food: How It's "goodness" is Ensured

Darryl Seland

It’s no surprise that food and beverage companies, in order to protect consumers and their brands’ relationships with them, require assurances that the contract manufacturers with whom they work follow strict safety and quality standards. That is where the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI), a division of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), comes in.

Modern Quality Control With SPC

The Excellence Loop: A Model for Transforming Manufacturing Quality Management—and Continuous Improvement

Quality professionals know that it’s not productive to try to solve quality issues in isolation. Instead, create an environment of continuous improvement with a cyclical model—and centralized quality data.

Quality Magazine

2019 December

Check out the December 2019 edition of Quality: Quality 4.0 for medical device manufacturing, automated metrology, gage trends, plastics, materials analysis and much more!

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