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Article: Eye on machine vision
- Article from:
- InTech
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Instrument Society of America Jan 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The factory floor
Lower-cost systems attract manufacturers' attention
Widespread adoption of quality standards such as ISO 9000 and increased pressures for "cost down" automation have combined to drive machine vision technologies to the forefront of manufacturers' purchase plans.
In the past five years, machine vision sales revenue has doubled worldwide, while the total number of units sold has more than quadrupled. This shows that the use of machine vision technologies is increasing, while the typical price of a system is rapidly falling.
As recently as five years ago, machine vision products hit an unwilling and wary customer base. Most manufacturing engineers had no hands-on ...