How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
Quality assurance
Visual inspection product for QA
6 March 2020
Inspekto is offering QA managers a free demonstration of its visual inspection product on the end user’s own production line
Freefall inspection and other quests for quality
29 March 2019
Ahead of the Control trade fair in May, Greg Blackman speaks to Fraunhofer IPM about three new systems it will present for quality inspection
Israeli start-up Inspekto wins $10m investment for QA tech
18 October 2018
Israeli start-up Inspekto has won US $10 million of investment for its QA inspection equipment
Multisensor systems and 3D scanning on display at Control
28 April 2016
Greg Blackman reports from the Control trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany, where multisensor inspection systems and 3D scanners, all using vision technology, were on display
Made to measure
30 March 2016
Greg Blackman on the growing use of vision technology in production machines for quality control inspection
Keeping European production competitive?
10 April 2014
Greg Blackman finds that, in a world where large-scale manufacturing is now predominantly located in Asia and emerging markets, Europe still has a lot to offer when it comes to inspection equipment and quality control
Quality in quantity
22 October 2010
Quality assurance inspections are the bread and butter for machine vision. Greg Blackman looks at some classic QA applications using vision
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Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Keely Portway looks at how robots are automating procedures in hospital testing laboratories, and how imaging underpins this
A setup for photometric stereo imaging in which multiple lights are used to illuminate an object from different directions. Credit: Advanced illumination
Matthew Dale explores the power of computational imaging, all made possible by clever illumination
Credit: Flir Systems
As demand for thermal imaging rises during the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Blackman asks how effective thermal cameras are at screening people for signs of fever
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
Stemmer Imaging's David Hearn has died after a long illness. Mark Williamson, corporate marketing director at the company, looks back at Hearn’s career
The appetite for vision and automation remains strong, but there is still a lot of uncertainty at the present time, were the views of the heads of the AIA, EMVA, VDMA Machine Vision, and UKIVA in a webinar
Chinese hospitals have ordered 2,000 UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Blue Ocean Robotics
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of robotics and automation in many areas of manufacturing and society, according to CEOs of robotic firms in a webinar run by A3
