Voelker Controls, with its expertise in motion control, pneumatics, robotics, machine vision and sensors, has been appointed a distributor Omron automation products for the Southern Ohio market
Omron will be showing the new FHV7-series smart camera
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Andrew Williams discovers
Omron has released the FHV7-series smart camera combined with illumination and image processing functionality for advanced vision inspections
Omron has opened eight new innovation labs in Europe. The labs give manufacturers an idea of the benefits of a connected, automated and intelligent factory, optimised with the latest automation and robotics technologies
Omron Automation Americas has developed a technology that can automatically detect small defects and subtle changes in colour
Omron (1F80) will exhibit its portfolio of machine vision solutions, ranging from components, smart cameras and machine vision systems, to complete embedded solutions.
Through targeted acquisitions and development, Omron has made significant advances in the field of machine vision, including cameras and algorithms from Omron Sentech, the Omron Microscan identification solutions, and image processing developed for robot guidance.
Eye tracking for healthcare along with a robot using vision to play table tennis are all part of the tech being shown at CES 2018 in Las Vegas this week
This smart camera, the HAWK MV-4000 from Omron Microscan Systems, Inc., quadruples the processing power of the previous generation
Spectris has sold its code reading business Microscan Systems to Omron for a total cash consideration of $157 million
Limited data is a common problem when training CNNs in industrial imaging applications. Petra Thanner and Daniel Soukup, from the Austrian Institute of Technology, discuss ways of working with CNNs when data is scarce
Matthew Dale explores the high-resolution imaging solutions emerging for inspecting OLEDs and other electronic displays
As car makers install production lines for electric vehicles, Greg Blackman looks at how vision is currently used in their factories
Keely Portway investigates how vision technology is being used in the dental sector, from initial diagnosis, to quality control of prostheses
The UK is up to 20 per cent less productive than its major competitor countries because it is not investing in automation, Mike Wilson at the British Automation and Robot Association said at UKIVA's machine vision conference in Milton Keynes. Greg Blackman reports
