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Orion, Michigan — January 7, 2008, – Applied Manufacturing Technologies expanded its machine vision practice to include high speed product inspection in the food, pharmaceutical, consumer goods and biotech markets. This growth supplements the company’s current industry leading activities in 2D and 3D robot guidance applications. David Wyatt, 25 year industry veteran and the founder and former president of Midwest Integration, has joined AMT as Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership to the company’s vision activities. “Machine vision is now a mainstream manufacturing technology,” said Joe Campbell, chief operating officer for Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. “AMT is growing its vision capabilities in all application segments including robot guidance, metrology, inspection and quality control to meet our customer’s engineering needs.” Machine vision is one of AMT’s 7 core technologies that also includes simulation, mechanical design, control design, software/programming, training and paint processing. Vision is part of the company’s general industry and automotive business areas. Mr. Wyatt brings over 25 years of automation and vision expertise to AMT after founding Midwest Integration and serving as General Motor’s Machine Intelligence Chairman in the Mid 1980’s. As a charter member of the Machine Vision Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and current chairman of SME’s Machine Vision Technical Community, Mr. Wyatt is committed to providing customers with the most advanced vision technology available. Mr. Wyatt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri. Founded in 1989 by Michael Jacobs, Applied Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. (AMT) is a leading supplier of complete consulting and engineering services, offering single-source engineering solutions to the automation and manufacturing industries. The company’s service offerings range from design and simulation to programming, installation and support of industrial automation solutions. The company’s technical and industry expertise in automation for the automotive, aerospace, building materials, consumer products, food, heavy equipment, machinery, medical, and truck industries offers its customers the highest quality professional service available in the industrial arena. For more information contact Applied Manufacturing Technologies at 248-409-2000, or online at www.appliedmfg.com. |
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