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Baby boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 a day.  As a result, the United States is losing a large portion of its experienced manufacturing workforce.   At the same time, global competitiveness, especially in the automotive industry, is becoming…

When machine vision first emerged on the scene 30 years ago, customers were intrigued with the technology and they wanted to know how it worked and were excited about creating their own solutions. Universities clamored to do research in every…

In our litigious society, manufacturers need to prove their products were produced correctly.  Therefore, they need to be confident they can retrieve information to have proof. The automotive industry is paying a high price in dollars and brand damage whenever…

Twenty years ago, the machine vision industry held out great promise that 2D vision cameras could solve multitudes of error-proofing problems in discreet manufacturing plants. Unfortunately, they proved to be temperamental and unreliable, mainly because the 2D vision cameras are…

Recently Coherix engineers and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) engineers have been working jointly to develop error-proofing solutions in engine plants. After identifying eight specific problem areas, the team recognized that these were all old problems that have been plaguing engine…

First commercialized by Perceptron in 1983, line sensors were used to verify critical dimensions on automotive bodies to determine part-to-part variation. At that time, they were referred to as 2.5D (two and a half D) sensors. Recently many companies have…

Automotive companies see their designs in three dimensions (3D) by using Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools. The CAD models represent the “as designed” part. When manufacturing these same products, most of these companies still rely on obsolete two-dimensional (2D) systems…