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Seeing Double: How Unreliable Vision Systems Can Fool Your Factory
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Article in Automate UK Magazine
We have had one of our recent, complex, systems featured in the Automate UK (PPMA) Magazine - to read the full article click here

New Telecentric Microscope Lenses for Large-Format Imagers
The new telecentric microscope lenses, with their many application possibilities, are the latest product innovation from Vision & Control. They enable precise measurement, especially of the smallest objects. A choice…

Plastek Sustainability Day
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The Cognex In-Sight 3800 Vision System
If you are looking for a powerful, yet user-friendly solution to automate your vision inspection process then it the new Cognex In-Sight 3800 will almost certainly meet your needs.

The Engineer’s Song
Bob Fisher wrote and recorded "The Engineers Song" in 2005 with band Ock 'n' Dough. We thought readers of our blog might appreciate it.

The Boris Johnson Partygate Investigation - A Machine Vision Solution?
There can be no denying that the Boris Johnson Partygate scandal in which the UK Prime Minister and various high profile aides have been caught breaking their own covid lockdown rules has ignited a national debate - w…

Embedded vision system with miniature footprint for OEM projects
Vision Components presents VC picoSmart, an embedded vision system the size of a conventional image sensor module that greatly facilitates and speeds up the development of vision sensors. Image capture and processing…

High-end MIPI camera modules for medical technology
Focusing medical technology, diagnostic, and laboratory applications, Vision Components launches a series of new MIPI camera modules that make proven high-end sensors accessible for integration with a wide range of em…

Machine vision system rejects everything?! Solved
A customer contacted us with the news that whilst an inspection we’d installed was working well most of the time, occasionally it would reject everything. This characteristic had never been seen with the previous manu…

End-of-line versus distributed inspection
We were called into a meeting at a customer’s site to review the performance of an end of line inspection system we had installed. In the meeting was the production manager, the quality manager and accountant, the sal…
