New Proposal! Ping Pong Method
AT THIS YEAR'S EXHIBITION (2016 KANSAI MECHANICAL COMPONENTS & MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY EXPO), WORKPIECES ARE SIMPLY FED AND DISCHARGED BY HAND AND PLACED UNDER THE CAMERA! IF THE WORKPIECE IS OK, A "PING-PONG" SOUND WILL ALERT THE OPERATOR! IF THE WORKPIECE IS OK, AN AUDIBLE "PING-PONG" SOUND WILL ALERT THE OPERATOR. IF IT IS OK, AN AUDIBLE "PING-PONG" SOUND WILL ALERT YOU.
Exhibited at 2016 Nagoya Mechanical Components & Materials Technology Expo
We exhibited FlexInspector-ROBO at the 2016 Nagoya Machine Component Technology Expo held at Port Messe Nagoya from April 9 to 21. This was the first time to hold the Mechanical Components & Materials Technology Expo in Nagoya, and compared to Osaka and Tokyo, the scale of the exhibition was [...].
Paid seminar [Fundamentals of Automated Visual Inspection and Know-how for Success
Despite the not-so-expensive course fee (48,600 yen per person), about 30 people attended. The course was quite rich in content, and we believe that all participants were fully satisfied. We believe that only our company is lagging behind, and that other [...]...
Thank you for visiting the 2015 International Robot Exhibition!
FlexInspector-ROBO was exhibited at the 2015 International Robot Exhibition held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 3 to 6. Many visitors stopped by our booth during the show and it was a great success. Our company's main [...]...
Seminar announcement for visual inspection
The seminar on visual inspection, for which we have recently given advance notice, is now open for registration at the following address. I, Hirokazu Yamada, will be the lecturer.
Automation of subjectivity
Automation of visual inspection is automation of subjectivity, of the senses. In the same way, even if image processing is used, positioning, measuring, and text reading are objective automation. If it is objective automation, its goodness or badness is clear, but subjective automation fits the sense of the on-site worker [...].
I tried two-dimensional picking.
We tested position detection for picking with a robot. It is two-dimensional, not three-dimensional. First, a positioning model is created with 1 piece, and up to 10 pieces are detected. Detection with 1 piece Detection with 6 pieces Detection with 20 pieces Detection with a box of screws "Three-dimensional [...].
People are inspected on their emotions.
Visual inspection is said to be difficult to automate because of its sensory nature. To put it another way, visual inspection is emotional. Visual inspectors do not want to "spill the beans," so they try to change angles by hand to make things visible, look at things they do not need to look at, and even [...].
FIS-100" AUTOMATIC APPEARANCE SENSOR THAT INSPECTS "ALMOST THE SAME AS GOOD PRODUCTS
ALTHOUGH "VISUAL INSPECTION EQUIVALENCE" IS OFTEN REQUIRED WHEN CONSIDERING AUTOMATION OF VISUAL INSPECTION, IT IS NOT EASY TO ACHIEVE. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE GLOBAL MARKET DOES NOT DEMAND HIGH-COST PRODUCTS WITH STRICTLY INSPECTED APPEARANCE. AUTOMATIC APPEARANCE SENSOR "FIS-100" [...].
Imaging Information Industrial(2013/1)
This is an article that was published in a professional journal with the title about two years ago, and I think it's so snappy and interesting to read it again now. Since I have the opportunity, I would like to post it in its entirety.