In the past, the process of checking trays of plastic wells used in microwell plates was carried out manually by operators who removed trays from a conveyor belt on a production line to visually inspect them. However, the subjective nature of the operation meant that the process was prone to human error. So when a UK medical manufacturer decided to automate the inspection of its plastic wells; it turned to engineers at Industrial Vision Systems to build an automated special purpose vision machine specifically for the purpose. >>>Read more