Practical articles on automated inspection, defect detection, OCR, robotics, and the technology behind quality control on the factory floor.
A machine vision system doesn’t see a part the way you do — it sees light bouncing off a surface. Get the lighting wrong, and even a great camera can’t find a defect sitting right in front of it. Here are the six setups that cover almost every job.
Picking a camera and lens feels complicated because it’s really three decisions bundled into one: lens type, mount, and sensor. Get any one wrong and the other two won’t save you. Here’s how to work through all three.
A robot without vision knows exactly one thing: where it was told to go. It moves to a fixed coordinate, grips, and returns — reliably, endlessly, blindly. That…
A surface crack on a bearing roller. A lap on a cold-rolled strip. Scale pressed into a hot-worked pipe. These are not cosmetic nuisances — they are failure modes…
A plant running two counting shifts per day — one operator per station, batches of 200–500 small parts, target accuracy of 100% — is running a losing bet. Human…
Most factories already have cameras. Dozens of them. Yet the average plant head reviewing a shift report still relies on incident logs, manual headcounts, and…
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