Developer's Aside
What to do with the mechanism...

We have received many inquiries, but we are having trouble because of a lack of "mechanical" capability at the equipment development stage. We can handle simple things in-house, but when it comes to something a little bigger.... We have a lot of projects in the pipeline, but we are lacking in "mechanical" staff at the equipment stage. [...].

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Developer's Aside
2011 Recruiting

I have been meeting a lot of people this past week in the hiring process. Until now, I had the feeling that I had to be an experienced person. However, I myself was not an experienced person from the beginning, and what is important is curiosity, enthusiasm, and willingness... to do our work [...].

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Developer's Aside
dark and light blob

It seems that Keyence has added a new feature called "Shading Blob" to their new models. That concept is the same as "defect intensity" in FlexInspector. It was one of the features that I wanted to keep hidden in FlexInspector, so it was a bit [...].

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Developer's Aside
Taro Balloon

Have you ever heard of a street performer called "Taro the Balloon Man? You can see some videos of him on YouTube and other sites. He was my judo buddy for 9 years in elementary, junior high and high school. # That brilliant ukemi might be natural. I saw him around the performance of drinking balloons a few years ago [...].

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Developer's Aside
2011 Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR! WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU IN THE NEW YEAR. OUR GOAL FOR THIS YEAR IS THE EARLY LAUNCH OF THE AUTOMATIC APPEARANCE SENSOR FIS. WE WOULD LIKE TO MASTER THE CONCEPT OF "ANYONE CAN USE IT (I.E., ANYONE CAN OPERATE IT AND MAKE IT EFFECTIVE).

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Developer's Aside
Machine Vision Solution Seminar 2010

Lynx Machine Vision Solution Seminar 2010 will be held in Kyoto, Nagoya and Tokyo on October 19, 20 and 21. As one of our business partners, we had been asked to participate in the seminar and exhibition, but we were unable to attend due to [...]...

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Developer's Aside
End of 11th term

I STARTED MY OWN BUSINESS IN JULY 1999. THANKS TO YOUR SUPPORT, WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED OUR 11TH YEAR. IT IS TRUE THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF MY INDEPENDENCE, I THOUGHT "IF ONLY I HAD THE TECHNICAL SKILLS. HOWEVER, THIS JOB IS BASED ON B2B. A "ONE-MAN COMPANY" WITHOUT CREDIBILITY CANNOT GET WORK [...].

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Developer's Aside
know the reality

Since I am not from the user side, I do not have a complete grasp of the "reality" of automated visual inspection in the field. However, I have had the opportunity to talk with many users of automated visual inspection through deliveries and exhibitions, and I have come to understand the current [...].

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Developer's Aside
Background of my worldview

I am aware that I have a rather idiosyncratic world view of automated visual inspection. Rather, I suspect that everyone is aware of it, but is unable to speak out. Both sellers and buyers are not feeling very clear about the situation. Everyone is trying their best to [...].

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Developer's Aside
After all, image processing is only "image...

After looking around at several machine vision related sites, I wonder if it is really safe to write that machine vision can "do anything". We have the strongest level of automated visual inspection technology called FlexInspector [...].

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