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  • Volume 11, Issue 12

    • Volume 11, Issue 12

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    Consumer Packaged Goods

    System optimization/customization is key to success

    Dec. 1, 2006
    A discussion with Paul Bourget, LumenFlow
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    Cables and Connectivity

    Memories are made of this

    Dec. 1, 2006
    The revolution in electronics and machine-vision performance needs to be matched by products that prove they are different.
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    Factory Automation

    System smoothes lumber production

    Dec. 1, 2006
    Off-the-shelf cameras and software team to inspect milling, gluing, and compression of laminates.
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    Consumer Packaged Goods

    Machine vision checks catalytic converters

    Dec. 1, 2006
    Multiple cameras on a production line speed the inspection of catalytic converters.
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    Automotive Manufacturing

    Smart sensors vie for vision applications

    Dec. 1, 2006
    Smart sensors can provide the functionality needed for simple, low-cost machine-vision applications.

    More content from Volume 11, Issue 12

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    Imaging Boards and Software

    Snapshots

    Dec. 1, 2006
    Surveillance system tracks/visualizes; Machine vision reads electricity meters
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    Robotics

    I am a camera

    Dec. 1, 2006
    If there is one central theme that has been pervasive in the development of image-processing and machine-vision systems it has been the camera itself.
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    Consumer Packaged Goods

    Redundancy speeds Data Matrix reading

    Dec. 1, 2006
    Component identification systems play an important role in aerospace and automotive plants where large numbers of components must be tracked from early inventory to final product...
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    Imaging Boards and Software

    Robots and vision solve Rubik’s cube

    Dec. 1, 2006
    In 1974, Erno Rubik, then a lecturer in the department of interior design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest, Hungary, invented what was to become a world phenomenon...
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    Cameras and Accessories

    System speeds pencil inspection and sorting

    Dec. 1, 2006
    By sandwiching lead between two very long wooden pieces or slats that are then separated by sawing, one pencil manufacturer in India is producing more than 2 million pencils per...
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    Robotics

    Vision + Automation Products

    Dec. 1, 2006
    Camera captures details in near-UV; Cable supports GigE Vision cameras; Polarized ringlight reduces glare; Linescan camera has high resolution; and MORE…
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    Robotics

    Vision and robots rack auto parts

    Dec. 1, 2006
    In October 2006, the Automated Imaging Association (AIA; Ann Arbor; MI, USA; www.machinevisiononline.org) held a workshop on vision and robots for automotive-manufacturing applications...