Steady and consistent quality inspection plays a pivotal role in the manufacturing process. An increasing number of manufacturing plants are being fitted with multiple machine vision inspection systems to cover the entire production chain, ensuring higher-than-ever levels of quality. The automated exchange of consistent information between these different systems in a manufacturing environment is the essence of system integration, allowing for improved productivity and quality, reduction in cost and waste, and overall innovation. In my role as sales and application support manager, I work with many of the systems integrators who rely on our products to support their development of vision systems. We sat down with Dr. Arun Dalmia, founder and president of Active Inspection, a systems integrator based in Grand Rapids, MI, to ask him some questions on how system integration has helped his clients build robust and sustainable manufacturing processes and how the role of systems integrators is evolving.

Active Inspection has been in business for over two decades designing and developing industrial machine vision and machine learning solutions. Alongside supplying a suite of standard vision systems, they also build custom vision systems to provide solutions for more complex problems.