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Ed Goffin

Ed Goffin is marketing manager with Pleora Technologies, a supplier of video interfaces for machine vision, medical imaging, and security applications. For more information, email him at [email protected] or visit www.pleora.com.

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Machine Vision

Solving Processing Bottlenecks in High-Bandwidth Machine Vision Systems

As machine vision systems scale in complexity and performance, designers must adopt new strategies to manage processing bottlenecks.
Ed Goffin
January 16, 2026

As machine vision systems continue to evolve, they are increasingly tasked with supporting higher resolutions, faster frame rates, and multi-camera configurations. 


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Vision & Sensors | Vision

Unlocking Imaging Benefits with Compression

The growing deployment of 3D across a range of end-applications, from logistics to robotics and inspection, will also increase bandwidth demands.
Ed Goffin
October 2, 2025

As technology evolves, efficient compression techniques are vital for multi-sensor applications and 3D implementations. Seamless data fusion can enhance performance in logistics and robotics while meeting user expectations and infrastructure limits. Discover how these strategies are setting new standards in quality and efficiency.


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Machine Vision Interfaces
Vision & Sensors | Interfaces

The Next Wave of Machine Vision Interfaces

This new wave of interface design choices is significantly influenced by the electronics, mobile, and personal computing markets.
Ed Goffin
December 12, 2024

The development of machine vision interfaces highlights new technologies, such as PCIe and Thunderbolt, that improve performance and integration across various applications. Additionally, the upcoming GigE Vision 3.0 standard aims to enhance CPU utilization through the use of RDMA technology.


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Software

Cutting Through the Complexity of AI

At its most basic, manufacturers can consider AI as an additional tool that complements traditional machine vision.
Ed Goffin
May 22, 2024

AI, despite its hype, often causes delays in manufacturers' automation strategies due to confusion and fear. Fundamentally, AI complements machine vision, which uses handcrafted algorithms needing new formulas and trial-and-error development for each product type or feature.


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Vision & Sensors | Trends

Making Vision and AI Easier for Users

Vision and AI can play a substantial role in reducing manufacturing costs and risk around manual and semi-automated processes.
Ed Goffin
December 1, 2023

As technology gets easier to use, vision and AI application design is no longer restricted to expert-level developers. A quality manager or IT operations staff can design, train, and deploy their own customizable workflow.


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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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Vision & Sensors | Automation

Bringing AI to Visual Inspection

Adding automated decision-support for human operators helps speed visual inspection rates and improve product quality.
Ed Goffin
January 1, 2022

Manufacturers and brand owners are under tremendous pressure to ensure premium end-to-end product quality, especially as consumers increasingly demand perfection. And a great deal of that product quality pressure still falls on human visual inspection.


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Quality 101

I Think I Need AI! What is AI?

For most manufacturers evaluating AI, their key concerns focus on the cost and complexity of design and deployment.
Ed Goffin
October 1, 2021

While artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining favor as a solution to quality problems, it brings a number of new, sometimes confusing, terms. As a first step, many manufacturers ask “What is AI?”


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Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection

Adopting a hybrid approach that marries classic and machine learning techniques for quality inspection can simplify deployment.
Ed Goffin
June 30, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most hyped technologies of recent years, and while it promises new cost and process benefits for inspection applications, deployment remains a challenge.


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USB Brings Cost and Connectivity Advantages to Imaging

USB is the most prevalent method to connect computers and peripheral devices. Taking a survey of my desk there are a multitude of devices—a smartphone, headphones, a camera, mouse and keyboard—that rely on a USB connection.
Ed Goffin
March 1, 2018

Thanks in large part to its ease of use, USB dominates consumer-to-computer connectivity applications and is being rapidly adopted across other markets. 


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