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 IN THIS ISSUE of Vision & Sensors UPDATE:
- AIA Board of Directors Announced
- Machine Vision Achieves More
- Fundamentals of Machine Vision
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Super-Wide Beam Digital Micrometer Measures Large Diameter Targets
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Product Spotlight:
Color vision
Offering the most capable and easy to use suite of vision tools, the DVT® 535C sets a new cost and performance standard for entry-level color vision sensors. www.cognex.com
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Machine Vision Aids Quality Inspection by Philip Colet
Machine vision is the application of computer vision to industry and manufacturing. More specifically, it is the automatic acquisition and analysis of images to obtain desired data for controlling a specific activity. It has evolved to become a fast and reliable tool for quality control inspection. As initiatives such as Six Sigma and TQM push quality standards to the highest levels, machine vision can aid manufacturing organizations in reaching their quality goals. Machine vision is a specific application of computer vision that
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April 23-26, 2007 Manufacturing & Measurement Conference & Workshop (MMCW), Clearwater, FL. Quality Magazine, (888) 530-6714. www.qualitymag.com
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May 8-11, Control 2007 Quality Assurance Trade Fair, Sinsheim, Germany. P.E. Schall GmbH, +49 (0)7025 / 92 06-641 www.control-messe.com/en/control
May 22-24 EASTEC 2007 Exposition, West Springfield, MA. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, (800) 733-4763. www.sme.org/eastec
June 11-13 Sensors Expo & Conference, Rosemont, IL. Questex Media Group Inc., (888) 552-4346.
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HALCON User Conference in Japan
On the occasion of the ten years long cooperation of MVTec (Munich, Germany) and its exclusive distributor in Japan, LinX (Yokohama), on January 30 2007, an international user conference took place in Yokohama. German and Japanese companies with international standing presented how they implemented their machine vision applications for production processes by means of HALCON.
More than 300 decision makers and engineers from Germany, Japan, and other Asian countries came to Yokohama to attend this jubilee event. Companies like Bosch, Canon, Honda, and Rodenstock showcased their newest developments. All companies employ the software library HALCON from MVTec to solve their mostly challenging machine vision problems that require a lot of creativity.Furthermore, the managing directors from MVTec and the president from LinX, Dr. Wolfgang Eckstein, Dr. Olaf Munkelt, and Kei Murakami (shown here) presented how they will push machine vision in future and which brand-new possibilities this will open to the industry.
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AIA Board of Directors Announced for 2007-2008
ANN ARBOR, MI -- The Automated Imaging Association (AIA) announced its newly elected Board of Directors for 2007-2008 at its annual Business Conference in Orlando, Florida. The AIA is the global trade association for the machine vision and imaging industry. John Merva, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, CCS America Inc. has been elected 2007 President. "I am excited to continue serving the industry in this important role with the AIA,” Merva said. “
We have two particularly exciting initiatives for the next year. The AIA’s international efforts are coming together with those of the European Machine Vision Association and the new Japan Industrial Imaging Association to create new global machine vision standards. This should help our member companies create products to sell in global markets. At the same time the AIA is investing in efforts to find new markets for machine vision technology. Both of these efforts should assist business development for our members and grow the industry, which is the overall focus of the AIA,” he explained.
Also newly elected to two-year terms on the AIA Board
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Machine Vision Achieves More
by Amir Novini
As integral as machine vision has become to such industries as food and beverage packaging, printing and automotive parts, industry analysts projected its across-the-board growth in the manufacturing sector through 2006 at about 9% annually. What have remaining manufacturers been waiting to see in order to consider it an indispensable asset? Reports published over the past three years consistently point to:
• Uncomplicated, easy-to-use technology requiring no on-site expertise
• Systems that measurably contribute to consistent quality improvement, lower scrap rates and enhanced operating efficiencies upstream and down
• Integration within the manufacturing process to supply information that improves process control
• Industry- or application- specific systems that inspect for finer, obscured and more specialized defects—for example, 360-degree inspection and multiple inspections on higher-speed lines. Read more |
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Machine Vision Basics
by Brad Finney
Is now the right time to boost quality control with machine vision inspection?
A machine vision system acquires images of an object, and then uses computers to process, analyze and measure various characteristics of that object. The purpose may be to enhance the image to see characteristics undetected to the human eye, or to analyze image data for measurement purposes. The decisions made from this information are often related to quality. For example, production line parts can be qualified as good or bad based on their shape or size, but almost any industry can benefit from machine vision systems designed for their application.
Today, the costs of implementing a machine vision system have decreased significantly because of the lower cost of high-performance processors and improvements in sensors, cameras, lasers, embedded systems and illumination methods. With Six Sigma quality initiatives and the constant drumbeat of “better, faster, cheaper,” now may be the time to take a look at machine vision and determine if integrating a machine vision inspection system should be part of the quality improvement plan. Read more |
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- Learn All About Smart Cameras
- Machine Vision Integration
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