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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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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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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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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Developer's Aside
"We will make it to your specifications"?

Today an acquaintance of mine came by and told me a story about being stuck with "images" at one of their sites. He said that only 3 of the 15 units were working, and the rest showed no sign of working. When I talked to him, he told me that he is a "custom" manufacturer who "builds to the customer's specifications" [...].

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Developer's Aside
Today's double feature

Today, I gave a 30-minute presentation at two locations in the Kanto area. I hope you felt that it was something different from before. We are doing this gradually because if we spread out all at once, we will not be able to respond to the situation. We are still working on it slowly because we can't respond to the spread all at once.

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Developer's Aside
Manuscript in progress.

I was recently asked to write an article for the magazine "Inspection Technology" of Nippon Kogyo Publishing Co. What I find interesting is that the magazine is called "Inspection Technology," not "Image Labo," "Monthly Automatic Recognition," or "Measurement Technology," even though they are all published by the same magazine, Nippon Kogyo Shuppan. Is it a coincidence that I was asked to write an article for [...].

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Developer's Aside
Weapons are now available.

Core2Duo + Ginga++M2 + XCHR70 x 2 continuous operation was no problem. CPU operation was also good with a clean split in two. As is the case with the CPU this time, I feel that the weapons have come together here. [...].

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Developer's Aside
I'm not trying to sell you anything.

In the words of one, "FlexInspector gets a 50. But the others are too bad." I have to admit that I am impressed. Frankly, I'm impressed. I know there are a lot of things that don't work for me. Still [...].

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