Jim Anderson

Robots are being added in locations that add value so companies can use human employees in higher value areas and tasks still beyond the scope of machines.

With robot vision guidance systems, both 2D and 3D, flexible material handling is made possible for industrial production and warehousing.

There are often many possible ways to solve a specific vision task. In some cases, the choice of either 2D or 3D vision is obvious, but in other cases both technologies could work though each provides certain benefits.

Pass-through defects are anything but uncommon in manufacturing. Regardless of the variables involved, it is imperative to ensure that all products are correctly manufactured and assembled. 

Almost any application in the area of automatic identification (auto ID) raises fundamental questions about what the appropriate identification technology is for “my application,” but none more than track and trace.

Robots have been a force in the increase in flexible automation for many years, but until recently robot vision was limited.

Do you verify your linear bar codes? Let’s face it, most people don’t.

The growing push for more functional cameras and systems that are compact have made the use of cameras that have multi-scan functionality more and more interesting.

Over the past several years, there have been some common threads among many of the companies that develop vision sensors and cameras.