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Trends in sensors and vision

Oct. 25, 2016
Sensors are becoming better, smaller, less expensive and embedded—here's what you need to know in 2016.

Specifying, designing, programming and integrating are just some of the tasks related to sensor and vision system use on machines. Sensors are becoming better, smaller, less expensive and embedded. From new vision hardware to lenses, lighting and software tools, machine vision design improvements and innovations keep increasing.

How can sensing technologies help to diagnose machine health? Should inductive proximity, photoelectric sensing be based on applications?

Successful machine vision starts with testing, how machine vision systems and robots have influenced each other, and new machine vision systems, components show off future of the market. 

In this special report, we explore various case studies, editorials and more to discover better diagnostics through remote connectivity and more. Click here to read the special report.

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