
OptiMedica Corporation specializes in helping ophthalmologists treat retinal disease and have harnessed the power of graphical system design to develop PASCAL. PASCAL uses LabVIEW FPGA and intelligent DAQ to reduce treatment time as well as patient discomfort.
Ben Dawson has observed a downturn in business from end-users of vision tools—particularly in automotive and its linked industries such as electronics—since October 2008.
“The next frontier beyond measurement and monitoring is the idea and practice of prognostics,” says Arun Sinha, director of business development at Opto 22 (www.opto22.com), a Temecula, Calif.-based automation vendor.
Nanotechnology has been called manufacturing at a very small level. How small?
Something always affects industries’ strategy.
No matter how fast, efficient, technologically advanced or well staffed any production process is, nothing matters much unless you acquire reliable operating data, preferably in real time, to understand how to maintain competitive manufacturing.
“The use of robotics has and will continue to be a worldwide phenomenon,” declares Abdo Bashar, Cartesian robots product manager for, automation vendor Bosch Rexroth Corp. (www.boschrexroth-us.com), in Charlotte, N.C. “This phenomenon will continue to cause a worldwide change in the way we manufacture goods, and will continue to produce improvements, lead time reductions and quality goods.”
When William P. Gaut Jr. traveled to Atlanta recently for industrial product training, he took with him some samples of a float-and-gasket assembly used in one of his company’s medical device products, as well as a copy of the software program he was using for machine vision inspection of those assemblies.

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