Continued advancements in robotic vision technology offer the capability to increase efficiency and flexibility of your manufacturing production operations. Systems with integrated vision technology can increase flexibility and reduce overall system costs by eliminating costly, inflexible, single purpose tooling. The changes in the consumer which is driving mass customization requires more flexibility from today’s robot and automation solutions.
The days of parts always needing to be fixtured and located via single purpose tooling are quickly coming to an end. With the use of integrated vision capability robot programming is able to adapt to different part locations and orientations and even different part types.
AMT is involved in robotic integration of metrology applications with many key international equipment manufacturers. These types of metrology hardware are used in quality control systems to capture data for measurement, positioning and inspection.
Robots equipped with 3D area sensor vision systems are capable of locating parts in three dimensions, adding flexibility and reliability to operations typically completed by humans or expensive, dedicated non-flexible machinery. No matter if your process involves loose, mixed, irregular shaped or located parts, equipping a robot with a 3D area sensor vision system can provide an efficient solution that can be adapted to handle a variety of products.
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