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  1. FACTORY AUTOMATION: GigE cameras inspect automotive assemblies

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    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    In automobile manufacturing, it is essential to inspect whether parts such as plugs, rivets, and screws are correctly placed on the car chassis and body as the car moves along the production line. Stefan Gehlen, managing director of VMT Bildverarbeitungssysteme, and his colleagues have developed a

  2. Robot uses 3-D data to place automotive assemblies

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    Mon, 24 May 2010

    The FrontEnd vision-guided robotic system developed by Neovision includes robot arm, FireWire cameras, LEDs, contact sensors, and laser line generators. By combining rough 3-D location data of an automotive frame with precision 3-D information from the vision system, FrontEnd can place a radiator

  1. VISION-GUIDED ROBOTICS: Sophisticated software speeds automotive assembly

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    Sun, 1 May 2011

    In the automotive industry, hemming presses have been replaced by roller technology where a flexible hemming head with two rollers is mounted to the end of a robot arm to join independently stamped inner panels such as hoods, decks, and fender reinforcements to the outer panels that make up a car's

  2. Simplifying Automotive Assembly

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    Sat, 1 May 2010

    3-D vision-guided robotic system combines with LED lighting, laser line generators, contact sensors, and PLC to precisely place front ends.

  3. Simplifying Automotive Assembly

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    Sat, 1 May 2010

    3-D vision-guided robotic system combines with LED lighting, laser line generators, contact sensors, and PLC to precisely place front ends.

  4. Vision-guided robots place heavy engines

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    Thu, 1 May 2003

    During automotive assembly , a vision-guided robot system recognizes the orientation of engine heads and picks and places them correctly on engine blocks

  5. Machine-Vision Software Enters the Third Dimension

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    Wed, 1 Jun 2011

    into its RecogniSense system that the company recently demonstrated in an automotive assembly application (see “ Sophisticated software speeds automotive assembly ,” Vision Systems Design, May 2011). Structured lighting In applications such

  6. MEASUREMENT AND GAUGING - Cross-sectional scanning system speeds inspection of molded parts

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    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    Manufacturers of plastic electronics and automotive assembly housings , connectors, and medical devices often must supply hundreds of thousands of parts to their customers. After designing

  7. MEASUREMENT AND GAUGING - Cross-sectional scanning system speeds inspection of molded parts

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    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    Manufacturers of plastic electronics and automotive assembly housings , connectors, and medical devices often must supply hundreds of thousands of parts to their customers. After designing

  8. Vision-guided robot fastens lug nuts

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    Mon, 28 Sep 2009

    Shelley Fellows, vice president, operations for Radix Controls. Challenge of automating difficult manual task The automotive assembly plant involved in this application builds vehicles 24 hours a day with just-in-time production scheduling