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Terry Arden

Terry Arden is the CEO of LMI Technologies. For more information, visit www.lmi3d.com.

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Smart 3D Robot Vision: The Science of Seamless System Integration

Learn how 3D smart sensors can be tightly integrated with robots to achieve a number of dynamic manufacturing processes.
Terry Arden
May 4, 2020
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Integrating robots into a manufacturing line challenges process control engineers to rethink part flow and learn how both robot and 3D sensors can work together to achieve faster, more efficient production.


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Built-in robot integration

What Every Machine-Builder Should Know About Component-Based 3D Vision Systems

Terry Arden
September 1, 2019
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When it comes to building cost-effective 3D vision systems, is it better to use a component-based (i.e., camera, laser, lens, brackets, calibration targets) or all-in-one (i.e., smart) approach? 


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Inline inspection

Advancing Factory Automation with Smart 3D Imaging and Inspection

The Industrial Internet of Things and the Move Toward Smart Technologies
Terry Arden
May 8, 2019
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a term used to describe interconnectivity in relation to factory automation. The term captures the complex interrelationship of smart hardware feeding actionable data over a network, in order to drive deep learning systems toward optimized factory output. 


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higher resolution

Designing a Better Sensor for Small Parts Inspection

Smart technology advancements are at the heart of today's movement toward better sensor design.
Terry Arden
March 1, 2019
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In industries like consumer electronics, battery, and solar, the race for ever faster scanning, measurement, and control is critical to delivering 100% inspection of small parts moving at production speed.


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Fig. 1. In the edge computing paradigm data is processed locally.

On the Frontier of Factory Production

Explore edge computing and smart sensors for IIoT.
Terry Arden
March 1, 2018
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In the early 2000 era, companies were happy just to have a website. Then the emergence of cloud-based applications driven by web browser technologies brought about SAAS (software as a service), and the business environment underwent a paradigm shift toward digital infrastructure—one that could improve production and increase profit.


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Star Topology

Solving the Challenges of Multi-Sensor Networking

Creating a successful, robust network of sensors requires careful design. 
Terry Arden
July 1, 2017
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The data handling of many sensors that scan a single target, called multi-sensor networking, is an important capability to support large object applications.


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DOT Code Identification

Better Machine Vision: The Benefits of Combining 2D and 3D (Part 3)

Terry Arden
June 9, 2017
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Here are two application examples where the combination of 2D and 3D provide results that cannot be achieved by either technology on its own.


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2D+3D Vision Blog Series for Quality Magazine

Better Machine Vision: The Benefits of Combining 2D and 3D (Part Two)

Terry Arden
June 2, 2017
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3D builds on the proven capabilities of 2D by adding a secondary layer of data describing shape, which is essential to designing highly robust measurement systems.


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Better Machine Vision: The Benefits of Combining 2D and 3D

Better Machine Vision: The Benefits of Combining 2D and 3D

Terry Arden
May 25, 2017
3 Comments

In the world of automated industrial quality control and inline inspection, both 2D and 3D technology have important roles to play. In this three part blog series we will look at the strengths and limitations of each, and how combining the two creates a more complete inspection system.


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