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Articles Tagged with ''automation''

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Vision & Sensors | Lighting

Three Challenges In Machine Vision Lighting Today And How To Solve Them

With increased speeds, dynamic production lines, and advanced inspection processes, smart automated lightng is driving machine vision solutions.
Steve Kinney
May 1, 2022

One constant in the ever-evolving machine vision space is the need for high-quality, consistent lighting. New challenges in the design and specification of machine vision systems require an innovative approach to lighting selection.



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From the Editor | Darryl Seland

Sixty Years in the Making

Imagining the future, technology, and automation.
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Darryl Seland
April 15, 2022

It’s said that our imagination is what separates us from other animals. The ability to take what we imagine and make it real—to create something from nothing—is genius.


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Quality in Automation | Trends

Smarter Factories: Wireless Sensor Data Boosts Productivity, Prevents Downtime, And Reduces Costs

It's nearly impossible to imagine factories without sensors to identify products and guide mechanisms to pick up, sort, assemble, and package items.
Karl Anderson
April 8, 2022

As manufacturers worldwide seek to enhance their machines and equipment with online connectivity—an example of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)—they are realizing this technology’s remarkable potential. I


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Quality in Automation | Machine Learning

Bringing Quality To New Heights With Machine Learning

Five best practices for beginning the AI journey.
Morgan Palmer
April 8, 2022

In all types of industries, machine learning (ML) tools are finding the needle in the haystack of data, augmenting quality and safety professionals with a new kind of intelligence that can unlock hidden data patterns that are impossible for the human mind or eye to absorb.


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Quality in Automation | Inspection

Protecting Your Quality With AI Visual Inspection

One of the fastest ways manufacturers can add AI decision-support into processes is with image compare.
Ed Goffin
April 8, 2022

Brand appearance plays a significant role in consumer choice, and the manufacturer competes against larger players with much deeper marketing budgets.


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QIA 0422 Column Jeff Burnstein
Quality in Automation | Column

Automation Use Surged in 2021 – and We’re Just Getting Started

Consider the automation trends that make it easier to automate in today's competitive environment.
Jeff Burnstein
April 8, 2022

Robot sales have surged over the last few years as companies in every industry recognize robotics and automation can help them compete globally. 


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Face of Quality

Transformation: History Reveals That Modernaization Creates More Jobs Than it Elminates

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
March 15, 2022

There is a lot of attention given to the growth of automation, specifically to robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), and its potential impact on the economy and the work force, current and future.


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Vision & Sensors | Robotics

The Rise of Smarter Robots

Using a high-quality 3D camera, the robot can locate the part, regardless of orientation, and provide pick coordinates to the robot.
Jim Anderson
March 1, 2022

With robot vision guidance systems, both 2D and 3D, flexible material handling is made possible for industrial production and warehousing.


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Vision & Sensors | Trends

Advanced Imaging And Deep Learning Technologies Execute Critical Packaging Inspection

While machine vision applications have been highly successful for decades using "analytical" vision tools, deep learning is able to successfully solve very complex classification and object detection problems with ease.
Navneet Nagi David L. Dechow
March 1, 2022

Product packaging - in an extremely broad range of markets from food to pharma - frequently incorporates an extremely important sealing technology called “tamper evident” seals. 


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The Benefits of Automation

The five reasons to consider, and have been considered for decades, about automation.
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Darryl Seland
December 10, 2021

The linchpin of automation—since before it was even referred to as such—is in its obvious benefits in increased efficiency and accuracy and its ultimate reduction in cost, time and waste. 


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