Industry Insights and Technical Articles
Notes from real production lines: why SOP documents do not translate into execution, how to choose between the available detection methods, and how to validate results after go-live.
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Practical articles on line SOP execution, process error prevention, missing-step alarms and production traceability, newest first.
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Evaluating a Vision Vendor
The differences between vision suppliers are hard to see in promotional material or in a quotation. Every supp…
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Lighting Aging and Degradation
Lighting receives a great deal of attention when the scheme is designed and very little afterwards, where it i…
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Vision Project Risk Register
Vision projects fail in repetitive ways. Setting them out as a register and working through it at proposal and…
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Who Owns What
A vision project passes through process engineering, quality, maintenance, production, IT and purchasing, plus…
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Managing the Sample Library
A sample library is the foundation under a vision system. It proves at acceptance that the system can do the j…
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Audit Evidence Preparation
When a customer or a certification body reviews a vision station, the questions are predictably shaped: who de…
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Criteria Alignment Training
Anyone can write down what "acceptable" means. Getting a group of people to apply it the same way, on the same…
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Vision Station Daily Checks
Vision systems fail in two ways. Some failures are abrupt — a camera drops off the network, software errors ou…
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Inference Time Optimisation
Latency on a vision station is not the time the model takes. It is the whole path from the trigger arriving to…
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Guidance versus Inspection
To a customer, "use a camera to find where the part is" and "use a camera to check whether the part is good" s…
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Multi-Camera Alignment
A single camera station needs one calibration. The moment a second camera is added, a second problem appears: …
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Hand-Eye Calibration
The camera reports pixels; the robot needs millimetres and an angle. The bridge between them is a calibration …
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Popular articles
The most-read articles, for a quick grasp of SOP deployment and process error prevention.
- alarm fatigue Many visual SOP systems are not beaten by technical problems — they are muted by the floor. Once ala…
- visual SOP camera selection Camera selection for visual SOP is not the same as for product inspection. The subject is actions an…
- semiconductor die bonding Semiconductor packaging stations are characterised by high precision, fast cycle times and strict cl…
- wrong assembly alarms The most common reason a visual SOP project fails is not poor recognition — it is too many false ala…
- preventing skipped steps A skipped step and a missing operation are different problems. In a skipped step every operation was…
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