As manufacturers increasingly use robots, 3-D printing, AI systems and other cutting-edge technologies, they create new risks that are not covered by existing rules. As a result, even the most foundational rulebooks are changing.
Engineers rely on industry standards for safety, which require extensive development time. However, the rapid pace of emerging technologies poses challenges for timely standardization, as reaching consensus on new standards becomes difficult in a fast-changing environment, according to Shawn Moylan from NIST.
Over machine vision's long history in industrial automation, the emergence and development of standards has been one of the key drivers in advancing this technology.
In this article, we review key standards that currently exist and provide an overview on recent updates and potential changes that will impact and benefit users of machine vision technologies. We also look at the work of various organizations to understand how their standards may impact the machine vision market.
There are a lot of industry buzzwords out there—the cloud, IoT, UX, Smart Factory—that are supposedly connected to the next renaissance of manufacturing.
Call it Industry 4.0, the Connected Enterprise, or the Industrial Internet of Things, but this fourth manufacturing revolution is just getting started.
To find out more, Quality spoke with John Nesi, Vice President of Market Development at Rockwell Automation, and Bryce Barnes, Senior Manager of Cisco Systems’ Machine and Robot Segment globally under Cisco’s Internet of Things Manufacturing Solutions Group.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks to establish a new Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center in Nebraska. The award will provide up to $600,000 for one year, to help the state's small- and medium-sized manufacturers enhance their productivity, innovative capacity, technological performance and global competitiveness.