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Getting Inspection Right the First Time

How to decide whether to contract measurement services when 100% inspection is required.

March 29, 2018

Deciding whether to perform inspections in-house or to hire contract service providers is not solely a question of upfront investment versus long-term need. For some suppliers, a third-party contract service can also provide assurance that parts have been inspected and approved by an unbiased party.

The Fix is In

What they think they have to fix is often a mess created by the last “fix.”

Hill Cox

January 15, 2018

As I lied once before on these pages, I tend to avoid getting political in these columns with the exception of the occasional cheap generic shot. But since this is the first column of the new year, it’s that time again when the past year is reviewed and the number crunching begins.

Better Machine Vision: The Benefits of Combining 2D and 3D (Part 3)

Terry Arden

June 9, 2017

Here are two application examples where the combination of 2D and 3D provide results that cannot be achieved by either technology on its own.

What Kind of Gage Do You Need?

Sometimes only a “custom” will do.

George Schuetz

November 5, 2015

Like every other function in modern manufacturing operations, inspection is subject to management’s efforts at cost control or cost containment.

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How to Choose the Right Lighting for Machine Vision Applications

“The most sophisticated automated inspection system in the world cannot work without the proper lighting.”

John Lewis

October 3, 2013

Machine vision systems create images by analyzing the reflected light from an object, not by analyzing the object itself.

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X-Ray Computed Tomography Expertise Helps Build a Business

Avonix Imaging helps educate the market on the advantages of this “largely untapped” technology.

March 1, 2013

Akoan is a statement, question or phrase in Zen study designed to get a student to stop, contemplate, and hopefully progress and deepen his or her practice.

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