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Robot Orders Down Sharply in First Half of 2009

07.08.2009 - North American based robotics companies saw orders for new robots decline 36% in units and 47% in dollars through the first half of 2009, according to Robotic Industries...

Machine Vision

Defects Fast Recognized

06.08.2009 - Process stability is critical in rolling mills. Maintenance and monitoring of the technology used is therefore a high priority. Where monitoring is not carried out, production...

FireWire and GigE Racing for the Pole Position

06.08.2009 - The GigE Vision standard is rapidly gaining market share over other machine vision camera interfaces. Does that mean that FireWire, the currently leading digital interface, is...

Technology Trend Survey for Industrial Vision Cameras

06.08.2009 - Machine Vision market surveys mostly address economic aspects and naturally try to cover all facets and technologies of the field. Single technical aspects can very rarely be...

Performance of Inspection Systems

06.08.2009 - The performance of automated inspection systems on the factory floor is a frequent source of controversy between equipment supplier and user - often caused by different...

Machine Vision

Camera Cubes

06.08.2009 - An intelligent camera that is as tiny as a sugar cube and has the computer power of a Core2Duo in a fashionable black housing - sounds good, but unfortunately such a camera is...

Optical Metrology Basics: Spectral Sensors

05.08.2009 - A spectral sensor is a miniaturized spectrometer equipped with a detector array. The spectrometer spreads the incoming bunch of rays according to wavelengths, and the detector...

Everything Is in Motion

05.08.2009 - At the Vision show end of 2007, INSPECT hosted a panel discussion on the topic "All you ever wanted to know about Machine Vision software". One of the panelists, Cognex co-founder...

Automation

Extra Virgin

05.08.2009 - Image processing is the state-of-the-art technology for quality assurance in industrial production. In fact, "Machine Vision" developed from this field in the last couple of...

Automation

Fatigue-free at the Steel-Mill

05.08.2009 - Smart Cameras cover a broad range of applications implemented in a diverse field of industries. Image processing expert Bi-Ber, e.g., has implemented a control system for the...