AUTOMOTIVE

Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out

As car makers install production lines for electric vehicles, Greg Blackman looks at how vision is currently used in their factories

Machine vision technology is improving quality control in automotive manufacturing, writes Andrew Williams

Rob Ashwell looks at how vision fits into the battery of sensors onboard autonomous vehicles

Within the automotive industry, machine vision has become the eye of production, as Beth Harlen finds out

Greg Blackman looks at the vision equipment inspecting car manufacturing lines, a highly automated factory environment and a big user of machine vision

Jessica Rowbury reports from an automotive session at the Image Sensors conference in London

Rob Coppinger sees the advantages of using vision systems for part inspection throughout the automotive supply chain

Vision systems are used throughout various metal processing tasks, from pressing aluminium parts to automotive welding all the way to shredding scrap metal, as Rob Coppinger discovers

Modern automotive production is highly automated, with robots and machines carrying out complicated tasks at every step of the process. Stephen Mounsey discovers how machine vision makes this automation possible, and how it can trace parts through the entire process