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INCREASE YOUR PROFITABILITY WITH 3D VISION
Increase your profitability by automating on-site processes with 3D vision. [...]
THERE’S A WAY TO SAVE TIME AND MONEY IN YOUR BUSINESS
Increase your profitability by automating on-site processes with 3D vision.
Change is the only constant in today’s manufacturing world, and digital transformation helps facilitate the adoption of new technologies.
Rubén Belluomo
Sales Manager, Infor Southern Cone
There are different ways to increase profitability: through better cost control, by increasing profit margins, or by improving production line efficiency. In this last area, technological solutions play a key role in optimizing manufacturing processes. Making better use of resources—both capital and human—and minimizing the margin of error will have a direct impact on the profitability of each project.
What you’ll gain from industrial automation:
- Higher ROI: You’ll generate revenue far beyond your initial investment.
- Improved quality: You’ll be able to improve the quality of your products by reducing the number of errors and defects.
- Greater safety: You’ll reduce the risks to your workers by eliminating the need to perform dangerous tasks.
- Advanced analytics: You’ll benefit from greater data accuracy, storage, and real-time data collection capabilities.
Life is like riding a bicycle: if you want to keep your balance, you have to keep moving forward.
Albert Einstein
German physicist
In this article, we’ll show you one way you can rethink your production efficiency to increase your profitability. We’re talking about 3D vision.
In industrial automation, robotics, and digital manufacturing, vision technology—and machine vision in particular—is becoming increasingly important due to its greater reliability, performance, and positive impact on ROI. 3D vision offers significant advantages in industrial applications, as it enables robots to better understand their work environment, the orientation of objects, proximity levels, the actual surface of parts, and the structural strength of materials, among other factors.
Key Benefits of 3D Vision
- Reduction in inspection costs
- Increase in the production line
- Millimeter-Precision Measurement at High Speeds
- Thorough Surface Inspection
- Improved product profitability
- Significant reduction in incidents of cross-contamination or defective products on the production line
Applications of 3D Vision
- Bin Picking: You’ll be able to upgrade your production line to speed up time-to-market. Get rid of the noisy and expensive billet feeder. Stop wasting time adjusting your machines when switching products.
- Depalletizing boxes or bags: free your workforce from tedious and exhausting tasks.
- Robot guidance: intuitively manipulate any object in a single line.
- Setup: Reduces costs and downtime caused by complex production adjustments.
Machine vision has been in use in the industry for over a decade. Many processes have been automated through the use of cameras and computers for image analysis and decision-making in certain industrial manufacturing processes, such as quality control, robotic guidance, and traceability.
In addition to the manufacturing industry, 3D vision technology can be applied in various sectors to increase companies’ profitability, such as in the automotive industry , packaging, logistics, food, engineering, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals, enabling companies to streamline their processes, pay closer attention to detail, and improve the quality of their final products.
If you’d like to learn more about these solutions, contact us, and our machine vision experts will help you find the one that’s right for you. 😉
