Even with accessible technology developed to support their growth, the sad truth is that only a few manufacturers have fully explored the power of automation. The majority are still figuring out the best way to get started.

As the manufacturing industry increases its focus on quality control, and parts become more diversified and complex automatic measurement programming is on the rise.

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.

Machine vision for quality assurance (QA) has allowed manufacturers to overcome the limitation of human inspection in terms of cost and reliability. However, machine vision projects can be extremely complex and not suited to the technical and financial resources of most businesses.

It was the strongest first quarter on record with $516 million in orders.

Samyang’s need for improved effectiveness in the lab, and its understanding that lab technicians and engineers were more valuable performing value-added tasks, prompted the business to integrate an automated solution that could complement their existing frames.

The 10,000 square-foot center will expand Methods’ existing automation program and provide innovative, state-of-the-art systems for customers throughout the U.S.