Developer's Aside
Could be groundbreaking.

TODAY I RECEIVED THE LATEST EDITION OF MISUMI'S "FA/INDUSTRIAL PC COMPONENTS" CATALOG. TO MY SURPRISE, IN ADDITION TO CONVENTIONAL PC COMPONENTS, THE NUMBER OF CCD CAMERAS, LENSES, AND IMAGE INPUT BOARDS HAS INCREASED. MISUMI'S PC PARTS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: ・PROCUREMENT IS EASY [...].

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Now under development
VSZ-00808

WE TAKE IMAGES OF VARIOUS SAMPLES FOR IMAGE VERIFICATION WORK. WITH A SINGLE FOCAL LENGTH LENS, IT IS A CHALLENGE JUST TO CHANGE THE LENS, CHANGE THE DISTANCE, ATTACH OR REMOVE THE CLOSE-UP RING, AND ADJUST THE FIELD OF VIEW. SO, FOR "EXPERIMENTAL USE," I USED THE 10X MACRO ZOOM LENS V [...].

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Developer's Aside
About Automated Product Inspection

This is not limited to "image inspection. I believe that every "automatic inspection machine" on the market today extracts "information" from the object to be inspected in some way, and makes a judgment as to whether the "information" is as expected or not. This [...].

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Now under development
Core2Duo

I had to skip this because I failed to rewrite the BIOS of my experimental PC... I arranged a "Core2Duo" system as an afterthought. In FI, one thread is allocated for each camera, so the dual benefit is quite [...].

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Developer's Aside
This could be reality.

We received an inquiry from an electronic board mounting manufacturer, who was referred to us by a competitor who had evaluated our FlexInspector. As you can see, we are receiving more and more inquiries related to electronic circuit boards these days. However, we have to be calm and [...]...

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Information
International Technical Exhibition on Image Technology and Equipment & International Seminar on Image Technology and Equipment

We will be exhibiting at the International Technical Exhibition on Image Technology and Equipment in Yokohama, Japan, from December 6 to 8. In addition, we are scheduled to give a lecture at the International Imaging Seminar during the show. Title: "The Philosophy of FlexInspector? Quality Assurance and Image Processing in Manufacturing [...].

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Now under development
Results of evaluation by demo machine

FlexInspector is a very different approach to inspections, and we are having users evaluate it at the review stage. For this reason, we have a system of 10 demo machines in cooperation with our dealers. We have had the demo units evaluated [...].

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For your consideration
Why the results of experiments by the manufacturer differ from the results of actual equipment

WHEN CONSIDERING IMAGING TESTS, IT IS COMMON TO FIRST SUBMIT A REQUEST FOR CONSIDERATION TO THE MANUFACTURER. IN MANY CASES, SEVERAL NG SAMPLES ARE DEPOSITED AND ASKED TO CONSIDER WHETHER THEY ARE DETECTABLE OR NOT. THEN, WE ASK THEM TO PROVIDE US WITH A VERIFICATION REPORT, WHICH WE THEN DEPLOY ON THE ACTUAL EQUIPMENT. IN THE ACTUAL [...].

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