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Article: Time to start getting smarter about machine vision: smart cameras have come a long way and are a promising inspection tool.(Tech Watch)
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- Product Design & Development
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- January 1, 2005
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While machine vision has made enormous strides in recent years, it has just scratched the surface in terms of the vast potential it has in the manufacturing industry worldwide. Human inspection cannot provide a 100 percent inspection rate or keep pace with increasingly rapid assembly line speeds. For smart plant managers, it's time to consider smart camera machine vision inspection.
Simple sensors and other rudimentary machine vision tools offer a basic level of inspection, but as the sophistication of applications grows, smart cameras are increasingly flexing their muscles on the assembly line. Packaging, pharmaceuticals, automotive, electronics, and plastics ...