Wolfgang Pomrehn, collaborative robotics product manager at Bosch Rexroth, says deep learning could reduce the engineering effort of introducing new products to a manufacturing line by three quarters
Integrating a single liquid lens into an imaging assembly can produce extremely flexible machine vision systems capable of rapidly changing their focus in milliseconds. Find out more about the different types of liquid lenses available and understand the benefits of liquid lens integration.
David Dechow, at Integro Technologies, discusses vision system integration, a discipline that remains as strong as ever as new imaging technologies become more readily available
Petra Gospodnetic at Fraunhofer ITWM describes her work building a virtual image processing environment to simulate the design of an inspection system
Matthew Dale reports from a VDMA CEO round table event, where European vision firms were warned that they must adapt to compete in emerging markets
Jochem Herrmann, EMVA president and chief scientist at Adimec, on standardising for embedded vision, which could potentially infiltrate manufacturing in a big way
A VDMA protocol for machine vision integration has become an official G3 standard after being recommended by the G3 consortium
Matthew Dale explores the art of vision integration, including system design methods and how new standards will help integrators and end-users alike
The challenges of either building a full system or integrating machine vision on the factory floor are numerous. How is it best to work around legacy systems, in constrained spaces, and feed accurate information back to computers to guide automated robots? Rob Ashwell investigates
Greg Blackman speaks to Markus Maurer about a new standard specification sheet the VDI and VDMA Machine Vision are designing to help integrate vision systems
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
