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  1. Imaging fights invasive plants in cultivated fields and makes agriculture greener

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    Mon, 21 Jun 2010

    To recognize and attack wild potato plants without contaminating the entire field ..... was developed to differentiate between plants in the field and spray only those to be ..... surface and recognizes the wild potato plants , which are subsequently targeted and

  2. Vision system sorts strawberry plants

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    Mon, 1 Feb 2010

    inspects and grades harvested strawberry plants , and then mechanically sorts by quality ..... sort several hundred million strawberry plants into good and bad categories. To maintain ..... commercial berry growers must replace their plants every year. The sorter’s machine

  1. Applied Vision contracted to supply eleven new can-making plants

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    Tue, 1 Sep 2009

    inspection systems for the container manufacturing industry, has signed contracts to provide systems for 11 new can manufacturing plants in 10 countries. Each new plant will install multiple systems to inspect everything from the quality of ends to decoration

  2. Samsung selects Cognex wafer reader for advanced memory chip plants

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    Wed, 20 Nov 2002

    reader in all of its chip-manufacturing plants in Hwasung, Korea. The Cognex In-Sight ..... wafers. Samsung will retrofit its chip plants with the In-Sight 1700 systems to identify ..... and chairman, said, "Fabrication plants are increasingly demanding wafer-level

  3. Ford installs Braintech technology in its new engine plants

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    Mon, 27 Jan 2003

    has installed multiple units of its 3D Vision Guided Robotics (3D-VGR) software into Ford Motor Company's new engine plants in Canada. The initial order for 19 systems was placed with ABB Canada and includes ABB robots and Braintech software. 3D

  4. Imaging system keeps coal fired plants running smoothly

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    Thu, 25 Aug 2011

    constantly change the fuels that their plants burn; yet while switching coals may help ..... tubes can reduce efficiency, so to keep plants running at the highest efficiency, soot ..... analysis software, those coal-fired power plants can capture clear images from inside boilers

  5. CMU machine vision system sorts strawberry plants

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    Tue, 12 Jan 2010

    inspects and grades harvested strawberry plants , and then mechanically sorts by quality ..... sort several hundred million strawberry plants into good and bad categories. To maintain ..... commercial berry growers must replace their plants every year. The sorter's machine

  6. IR cameras spot gas leaks in processing plants

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    Sun, 1 Apr 2007

    recorded and saved for later evaluation. Built for continuous operation in tough environments such as onshore gas-processing plants and offshore production platforms, the systems have a range of 20-250 m and incorporate two IR cameras with one visible

  7. IR cameras remotely monitor power-generation plants

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    Mon, 1 Sep 2003

    The power and gas industries generally use heavy equipment, such as transformers and chemical crackers, in their facilities that must be closely and continuously monitored for high temperatures.

  8. Robotic image-processing system analyzes plant growth

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    Sun, 1 Apr 2012

    that captures time-lapse images of how plants grow. With support from the National ..... Nicola Ferrier are collecting images of plants that have been genetically altered with ..... of cameras between samples of growing plants , which are contained in an array of Petri