Developer's Aside
Request to Lighting Manufacturers

Then there are the lighting manufacturers. With the variety of evaluation requests we receive from FlexInspector, our work is becoming primarily "lighting selection". Many manufacturers are competing to offer the best selection, but there are "really" very few lights that are actually useful. The reason [...].

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Developer's Aside
Request to camera manufacturers

Until now, the customer for a "camera manufacturer" may have been the equipment manufacturer. However, in "our way of doing things," the customer is the end user. We are having trouble because of the large discrepancy here. Basically, a camera interface can be anything [...].

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Developer's Aside
My trauma

As I mentioned in a recent comment, I was an actual working unit of an imaging and inspection manufacturer. (1) "Sales" would take work that they could not do, saying that they could do it. The delivery schedule was particularly absurd, and there were hardly any days between the assembly and shipment of the equipment. [...].

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For your consideration
The idea of "sorting out the good products

Not only in image inspection, the secret of determining whether a product is acceptable or not seems to lie in the concept of "sorting out the good products. In most cases, the conventional way of thinking about inspection equipment is to "sort out defective products. In this way of thinking, it is necessary to define "defective products" [...].

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Developer's Aside
Does "Imaging Inspection" Have a Conscience?

Recently, we have been dropping a large number of demo units, and we have been receiving various evaluation results. Some of them have been evaluated in comparison with those sold with handling as "inspection equipment for XX". That one is a "finished device" and [...]...

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For your consideration
DOME ILLUMINATOR WITH COAXIAL OVDU-C120W

Based on our experience in evaluating various samples, we recommend "coaxial dome lighting" as a first step. The above models have been "tuned by us" with the cooperation of the luminaire manufacturer. The advantages of this illuminator are as follows

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Developer's Aside
"Good morning, quality engineering."

I am reading a book called "Ohanashi Quality Engineering" by the Japanese Standards Association. It is not something that can be understood in one shot, but I feel that it is close to the FlexInspector philosophy. Although #technical is not far away... To be honest, the machine vision industry is a "technology [...]".

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Information
About the 2006 International Imaging Seminar

The program for the International Imaging Seminar has been announced. The titles of other companies' seminars are listed, but our company is the only one that seems to be "different" from the others.

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Now under development
ARGO IEEE1394 CAMERA

I tried to use HALCON's 1) DirectShow interface or 2) 1394IIDC interface for Argo's IEEE1394 camera, but I could not find a way to use the 1394IIDC interface.

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Developer's Aside
Attitude toward the field

I had a chance to talk with Mr. H of "Visual Information Industrial", a trade newspaper. In response to the question, "How can we include Mavic to make it more exciting?", we proposed the following plan. 1) Comparative review of "image sensors" [...].

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