A complex manufacturing world is requiring increasingly intricate solutions to address both quality and economic concerns. While the technical challenges posed can wander as far as our imaginations can take us, the problems posed during project execution are often common and avoidable. Unfortunately, these problems are all too common in manufacturing and automation, while practical approaches to avoid these pitfalls are not.
Manufacturers can profit and their automation can thrive by leaning on qualified machine vision integrators. The integrator is there to take their application all the way from the point of problem definition through to a functioning machine on the customer floor. If done strategically and with care, the customer will experience higher quality automation systems, access to the top engineers in their discipline, quicker results, and the elimination of risk of failure, and protection from out of control project costs.