“Garbage in, garbage out” serves as a simple reminder that successful machine vision systems must start with quality data. Current challenges require flexible machine vision systems and models that can keep up with the speed of technology.

There is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted business practices across industry segments worldwide. Manufacturing was no exception and 2021 will be the year of reinvention through an emphasis on transforming business models.

CoaXPress (CXP) has developed into a new standard in industrial image processing in recent years. The CXP interface, which is particularly relevant whenever high data rates and short latency periods are called for, is now available in a new version with more improvements.

An increasing number of manufacturers are turning to deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), to assist in image analysis processing, experts say.

Over the last couple of decades, stemming from changes in demand, competition, and market pressures, manufacturing has become a more complex and fraught affair requiring increased flexibility with a narrower margin of error. We can sum up this changing environment in three long-term trends affecting how stuff is designed and made: mass customization, increasing SKU proliferation, and shorter product cycles.

Lucid Vision Labs, Inc., announced that its new 5.0 MP Phoenix™ and Triton™ polarization cameras featuring Sony’s latest Polarsens™ IMX264MZR/MYR CMOS sensors have entered series production.

Boson radiometric cameras bring absolute temperature measurement capabilities for quantitative assessment and analysis across commercial and industrial uses.

ABB boosts YuMi collaborative robot portfolio with GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families.

With Alvium 1800 U-2460, Alvium 1800 U-2040, and Alvium 1800 U-1620 Allied Vision adds three high-performance Sony fourth generation IMX back-illuminated CMOS sensors with Pregius S global shutter technology to its Alvium Camera Series.

JAI introduced the Spark Series SP-25000-CXP4A, a new 26-megapixel high performance industrial area scan camera capable of providing full resolution images at 150 frames per second.