One 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 […]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
If it’s not broken…? part 3
26-Jan-09If 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 […]