Crest Solutions has carried out a study to identify how vision technology can reduce downtime during pharmaceutical production line changeovers
Matthew Dale explores how machine vision integrators are responding to new demands in the pharmaceutical industry
Greg Blackman looks at where vision technology is used on pharma packaging lines, from blister pack inspection to track-and-trace
Nate Holmes, product manager for machine vision and motion control at National Instruments, finds that sophisticated imaging systems are required for high-content screening used in drug discovery. Here, he reports from the Vision Summit at this year's NIWeek, which took place in Austin, Texas at the beginning of August
Rachel Berkowitz discovers that, to comply with the EU Falsified Medicines Directive, pharmaceutical serialisation and authentication solutions have to be based on machine vision
Machine vision lies at the heart of pharma companies' efforts to comply with the 2011 EU Falsified Medicines Directive, says Ian Haynes, an associate of 3C Integrity, which provides serialisation solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. And, he says, time is short to build the manufacturing capabilities required and meet the 2017 deadline
With new directives proposed in Europe and the US to track pharmaceuticals and medical devices, Greg Blackman explores the surprisingly complex world of product traceability
Greg Blackman looks at some of the vision solutions employed on packaging lines
Rob Coppinger finds that vision systems are now required to track smaller and smaller markings that whizz past on ever-faster conveyors
Greg Blackman tracks the packaging lines for chemicals and pharmaceuticals and finds out where and how machine vision plays a role
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
