Industrial electronics: Automation for increased competitiveness high-precision, low-cost vision system for OEM monitoring controllers' faults ‘cutting’ a part at a computer terminal

The power of industrial systems that see, sense, move, and cut parts increased last year, and better systems emerged for controlling manufacturing processes and communicating with other systems. Powerful manufacturing software was also under development to let designers “make” and “test” new parts on a computer screen rather than by trial and error during manufacturing.