Are
quality professionals taking the easy way out by making themselves regulatory
compliance managers? This may be why the quality department is seen as an
overhead expense rather than a key part of a company’s success.
Life is filled with information. Information comes from the TV, radio,
newspapers and magazines, the Internet, and even each other. Sharing
information around the office water cooler is an age-old activity. Information is disseminated, received and deciphered. And finally, one must
decide what to do with all that information. Is the information actionable now,
later or not at all?
The task of illuminating parts for a successful machine vision application has been called by some a science and by others an art. But nearly everyone agrees that correct lighting has a huge impact on the success of any machine vision project.
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and the whole world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
- frances hodgson burnett, the secret garden.
Vision system integration has come a long way. With increased processing power, more powerful algorithms, and lighting and optics designed for more demanding requirements, more applications can be solved today than ever before.
The term smart camera has been somewhat of a misnomer. It is true that it is a camera, but it has not necessarily been smart. But that is changing as the cameras of the past, which could only work at less than optimal feed speeds and do less than complete image analysis, have evolved into a powerful quality assurance tool.
German beverage industry specialist BBull (Königsbach-Stein, Germany) faced a challenge to inspect tens of thousands of containers an hour. BBull’s high-speed machine vision system Stratec BV 3000W effects an all-around control of labels, tins and bottles.
When it comes to the level of quality that is acceptable in today’s manufacturing marketplace, one fact stands out. State-of-the-art customers are not accepting less than state-of-the-art products from their suppliers. Advanced manufacturing operations can only meet the requirements of these customers by making 100% perfect parts and products at constantly reduced cost and productivity.
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