Vision
systems have the ability to produce realms of process data. Mostly
though, we discard that in favor of a simple Good/Bad decision.
I've
said before, that's a waste. We should extract that data and use it
for process control: it could the basis for reducing process
variability.
Well
perhaps this is an idea who's time has come. Sight
Machine,
of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has a product intended to help manufacturers
do just that. Now beyond saying that that it takes data from vision
systems, and is device-agnostic, the website doesn't do much more
than tease. Fortunately though, they did provide a link to an
interesting article published in The Atlantic back in September 2012.
“The
Internet and Things: How Manufacturing Could Get Better With a Dose
of Networked Data”
does a pretty good job of explaining what Sight Machine have set out
to do.
If
you use a lot of vision systems in your facility, this might be the
logical next step. Of course, it presupposes all those systems are
working properly, but hey, isn't that what MachineVision4Users
is for?
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