Intelligent automation systems for the plant floor increasingly rely on robotics and machine vision, generally known as Vision Guided Robotics (VGR), to provide the flexibility and reliability demanded by manufacturing environments—now and in the immediate future.

At some point, someone has to make it all work. Integration is where design meets reality, where theoretical meets practical implementation.

What is color? There are technical responses to the question as well as more practical answers.

“It’s the software, stupid,” quipped an industry executive regarding the importance of software relative to hardware components in machine vision systems.

What is image analysis? The term is widely used over a variety of technology disciplines, and has varying meanings.

The component choices available in the architecture and configuration of machine vision inspection solutions are more numerous than ever.

Machine vision is a familiar technology in manufacturing and industry, and is used in an ever-growing range of tasks from simple code reading and assembly verification to robotic guidance and 3-D profiling.