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Greg Blackman reports on the progress being made in Industry 4.0, as discussed during the EMVA conference
AMRC's Integrated Manufacturing Group's work spans robotics and automation, integrated large volume metrology, digital assisted assembly and manufacturing informatics
Greg Blackman visits the University of Sheffield’s Factory 2050 where Rolls-Royce, McLaren and Siemens, among others, are investing in research on digital manufacturing
Matthew Dale discovers how emerging imaging technologies could make our roads safer and help manage congestion
Siemens is developing software that will control and monitor London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone, integrating data from ANPR cameras and other sensors
Working for Siemens and the Technical University of Munich, Tolga Birdal received the 2016 European Machine Vision Association's Young Professional Award in June
Tom Eddershaw looks at the latest vision technology for monitoring traffic, including systems designed to make cyclists safer on the roads
Securing an intravenous line in a patient can be a painful procedure if the nurse is unable to find a vein. Now, imaging devices are becoming available that use infrared light to make veins easier to locate, as Jessica Rowbury discovers
Government schemes for manufacturing and automation are out there, says Brian Holliday, divisional director, Industry Automation at Siemens - you just have to know where to look
Siemens Industry Automation Division has launched the Simatic MV440 1D/2D code readers, suited to reading data matrix codes, such as direct part marks (DPMs) on objects under difficult ambient conditions.
Isotronic’s VialChecker multi-camera quality control machine. Credit: Isotronic and IDS
Greg Blackman explores quality control measures taken to make the glass bottles filled with vaccines
With logistics experiencing huge growth, Keely Portway considers business opportunities for vision companies in warehouse automation
Using drones could enable visual aircraft inspections in under an hour. Credit: Mainblades
Matthew Dale takes a bird’s eye view of aircraft inspection, where drones equipped with vision are replacing manual checks
A tunable LED light source offers spectral reproduction. Credit: Pro-Lite Technology
Leslie Lyons, business development manager for light metrology at Pro-Lite Technology, says spectral camera calibration needs a spectrally tunable light source
Greg Blackman reports from the Association for Advancing Automation's latest digital show on the advances being made using AI for industrial inspection
