A few months ago, another machine vision blogger commented (only partially tongue-in-cheek) that the machine vision market must be down because there was an increase in the number of magazine articles being submitted by machine vision professionals (me included). He suggested that we must have extra time on our hands due to lack of business. […]
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An integrator - not a sales channel
02-Jun-09Report from The Vision Show
06-Apr-09This year, the Automated Imaging Association’s “THE Vision Show” took to the road and ended up in Phoenix, AZ. This show for some years was the every-other-year “West” vision show, and had most frequently been held in the San Jose/Santa Clara area. It’s sister show has been held in the East in Boston on alternating […]
If it’s not broken…? part 3
26-Jan-09One final thought regarding that service call. The customer expressed interest in “getting in some better equipment” to solve their inspection application.
Machine vision equipment and components certainly are advancing technologically. The computers continually get faster, the interfaces and configuration/programming environments are slicker and easier to use, lighting has become more creative, and advances in digital […]
If it’s not broken…? part 2
07-Jan-09When is a system really “broken”?
Remember the service call I mentioned in the previous post? The customer had some vision systems that were “not working”, and even wanted to consider new equipment!
This may sound like too broad a statement, but generally, machine vision systems already operating in an automation environment actually rarely malfunction. Nor does […]
If it’s not broken….?
07-Jan-09I recently responded to a service call. The complaint was that the machine vision systems were no longer correctly doing the desired inspection, were missing detectable defects, and were creating a high number of false rejects. Sound familiar?
I was intrigued that the customer wanted us to not only fix their existing vision systems, but also […]