Manufacturing Industry
Vision for material handling: automation can eliminate some serious material-handling bottlenecks in a metal-manufacturing plant. But without the right vision technology, robots would be lost on the plant floor.(METAL FORMING)
Fabricating & Metalworking, August, 2006 by Heston, Tim
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Manual material handling requires relatively low skill--yet carries a high price tag, with $20- to $40-an-hour labor rates in some areas, plus associated health care costs. At first glance, this seems to describe the classic case for automation, save one big hurdle.
While often seemingly repetitious, for much automation equipment--robots included--material handling is anything but. Parts might have varying contours or may not be aligned exactly the same way each and every time. While easy for humans, these obstacles represent subtle, difficult-to-detect changes for robots.
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