Cutting costs, boosting performance
By Ann R. Thryft, Contributing Technical Editor -- Test & Measurement World, 4/1/2009 2:00:00 AM
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In the middle of bad economic news, there's some good news for users of vision and inspection technologies. Products continue to become more commoditized, bringing down average selling prices and speeding up the return on investment.
This may not always be advantageous for vendors. In fact, Agilent Technologies cited commoditization in optical inspection and the consequent lower average selling prices, along with the large number of players, as major challenges to the imaging business when announcing its exit from automated optical inspection in February. But users can certainly benefit.
Users also benefit from the fact that more technologies keep getting added to the engineer's toolkit, for use either on the production line or in the lab. Thermal imaging, for example, can help with the verification of new designs as well as in failure-analysis labs ("Thermal imaging finds faults quickly"). Meanwhile, inspection systems are getting smaller and more portable, aided by innovations such as Power over Camera Link in cameras and frame grabbers ("Power over Camera Link enables smaller systems"), and by increasingly powerful notebook computers equipped with tiny frame grabbers that fit into an ExpressCard slot. And frame grabbers in general are incorporating more functions to cope with the faster data rates required for today's applications ("Frame grabbers thriving in inspection").
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