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ZEISS acquires Steinbichler Optotechnik
Steinbichler Optotechnik is a provider of systems for digitization with optical 3D sensors and in surface inspection on car body and sheet metal parts. -
Manufacturing Technology Orders Fell in April
April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $384.81 million, down 8.1% from March’s $418.67 million. -
FLIR Signs Digi-Key as distributor
Digi-Key will distribute Lepton series thermal imaging cameras. -
March Manufacturing Technology Orders Up From February
March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $399.83 million, up 30.3% from February’s $306.96 million but down 18.7% when compared with March 2014. -
Image-Based ID Reader Reads Codes on Printing Plates
A Cognex DataMan 300 is able to read IDs on process-free printing plates at NELA, replacing other scanners that could not see the virtually invisible IDs. -
Global Factory Automation & Industrial Controls Market
The overall automation market is expected to reach $125 billion by 2018 at a CAGR of 7.3%. -
Vision provides Quality Control of Die Casting
By Klara Steinschneider, EVT Vision systems can inspect the form and casting surface to detect scratches that indicate the form is wearing out. -
Factory of the Future: From Vision to Reality
By Andy Chang, NI The Factory of the Future is a research and technology initiative aimed to push emerging technologies to improve the competitiveness of manufacturing processes by leveraging cyber-physical systems and big data analytics to enable a smarter, operator-centric production. -
Reinventing manufacturing with the latest technologies
By Bill Lydon, Editor There is a great opportunity to leverage the latest technologies and compete in the global manufacturing landscape. The future lies in the convergence of product design, production planning, production engineering, production execution, and services. -
Keyence system inspects parts at Fastener Depot
Inspectors at Fastener Depot use a Keyence Image Dimension Measurement (IM) System to quickly and accurately check and gauge parts. -
Using Network Cameras for safety
By Andrea Sorri, Axis Communications Due to their superior image quality, connectivity, scalability, and scope for adding video analytics applications, network video cameras are increasingly replacing analog CCTV cameras to secure manufacturing facilities. -
B&R to supply PCs to Datalogic
Datalogic Automation will use B&R Automation PC 910 systems in its UX series of vision processors. -
Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 2.6% in 2014
November U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $378.06 million, down 15.5% from October and down 14.5% when compared with the total of $442.01 million reported for November 2013. -
North American Machine Vision Market In Midst of Record Year
This is the best nine month start by the North American machine vision market since AIA began tracking quarterly statistics in 2009. -
2014 Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 5.2%
September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $647.63 million, up 77.3% from August and up 61.4% when compared with the total of $401.18 million reported for September 2013. -
Machine Vision sales going up in Germany
The machine vision industry in Germany will grow in 2014 by ten percent minimum, exceeding the sales forecast of about 1.8 billion euros by the end of this year. -
Vision System Automates Mining Bridge Conveyor
HINZ developed a machine vision system that automatically measures the amount and distribution of potash on a mining conveyor as it is loaded by the bridge conveyor. This information is used by the mine control system to automatically move the bridge conveyor to correct any imbalance. -
Ford switches from sensors to vision for body panel inspection
Traditionally, body panels are inspected by using a robot to present the part to an array of proximity switches. Ford improved on this method by using machine vision. The camera connects to either the robot or the PLC using the Ethernet/IP protocol. -
Unico uses wireless ID readers to boost production 40%
Unico Systems, a manufacturer of home air conditioning and heating systems, uses Cognex wireless handheld scanners to read barcodes on the product, and QR codes on employee badges and assembly stations. Operators now spend less time on data entry tasks and the production rate is up 40% -
Integrating Ethernet-Based Machine Vision and Image-based ID Readers into Factory Networks
By John Lewis, Cognex The need to use PCs to interface with vision systems and ID readers required the purchase of expensive hardware and development of sometimes complex software. A new generation of vision systems and ID readers with built-in EtherNet/IP connectivity streamlines factory network integration.