Case Studies

The Timken Company manufactures bearings, gear drives, belts, and chains to production of a range of diverse products, including automobiles. At Timken India Limited’s facility in Bangalore, hundreds of thousands of tapered roller bearings are manufactured each day. During production, ... Go to article

Kiefel GmbH, which belongs to the Brückner Group, stocks up to 14,000 parts in its new high-bay system at its site in Freilassing with a storage area of around 1400 m² and a footprint of 120 m². Machine vision components ... Go to article

Sawmills face a lot of work and expense to get each bundle of wood that might go into a new deck, fence or building properly prepared for sale. For example, planks have to be measured, cut precisely, grouped by color ... Go to article

When it comes to the manufacturing of band material such as foils it is essential to deliver an error-free quality to the end customers to avoid returns and expensive reworking. To achieve this, it is required to analyze the foil’s ... Go to article

Based in Geneva in the east of Switzerland, Qualimatest is a machine vision integrator specialized in optical quality control serving many industries where precision and quality assurance is of utmost importance. A key customer branch for Qualimatest is the medical ... Go to article

Carl Zeiss Optotechnik GmbH, headquartered in the Upper Bavaria region of Neubeuern, generates about one third of their annual sales with systems for the non-destructive inspection of tyres. The company, which has been known as Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH until 2015, ... Go to article

Humankind has often looked to nature for inspiration. Many species have developed extraordinary ways of surviving, sometimes over millions of years. Studying them can help us find solutions a lot faster and without as much experimentation. Scientists have been looking ... Go to article

The Swiss company, Leuthold Mechanik AG (HLM) makes machines for manufacturing aluminium containers which, among other things, are used for packaging pet food and foodstuffs. A core element of quality assurance is machine vision by STEMMER IMAGING. Unremittingly, 120 times ... Go to article

scanware electronic GmbH in Bickenbach, Germany, develops and manufactures inspection systems for the 3D quality control of pharmaceutical products during the packing process. Nowadays, 2D cameras are no longer up to the inspection tasks set by packaging machine manufacturers and ... Go to article

Cognex is equipping more and more logistics centres with image-based barcode readers. Zalando, Europe's leading online platform for fashion, has now installed Cognex DataMan 503 barcode readers at its logistics centre in Erfurt, where it has been able to measurably ... Go to article