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Guiding Sight—Andrew Williams Explores the Vision Solutions for Robot Bin Picking

Learn about the latest trends in machine vision robot technology and its endless possibilities in factory automation applications such as bin picking.
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International Design Engineer_April 2019

Helping Hand for Robots

This article introduces sensor-robot integration and explains how 3D smart sensors can help robots see, think, and do. Read more about the benefits of pairing up UR robots with 3D smart sensors for a complete factory production solution.
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Die Vorteile der Multi-Sensor-Ausrichtung mit 6 Freiheitsgraden

The Benefit of Multi-Sensor Alignment with 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DOF)

The ability to inspect targets that are larger than a single sensor‘s field of view is a common requirement in today’s inline quality control applications. Learn how this need can be met by building multi-sensor networks using 3D smart sensors.
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Top 10 Machine Vision Solution Providers in APAC - 2019

Top 10 Machine Vision Solution Providers in APAC - 2019

LMI Technologies is honored to be nominated as one of the top 10 machine vision solution providers in APAC 2019.
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Talking Automate 2019 with LMI Technologies | RoboticsTomorrow

Talking Automate 2019 with LMI Technologies | RoboticsTomorrow

LMI Technologies will be exhibiting at the Automate Show 2019 from April 8 to 11 in Chicago. Read this article from RoboticsTomorrow to learn more about our company, and what makes our smart 3D machine vision solutions stand out from the competition.
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TyreAsia March 2019

3D Smart Sensors and the Advantages of High-Speed, High-Sensitivity Rubber & Tyre Inspection

Discover how Gocator® 3D smart sensors leverage high-speed, high-sensitivity scanning capabilities to provide robust quality control to the rubber & tire (R&T) industry.
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Touchpanel Gluebead Gocator

The Shift from 2D to 3D Inspection

In order to meet the demands of emerging quality control within industries, there are many applications where 3D is the only viable solution for automated quality control.
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Discover the Next Evolution in High-Speed Inline Quality Inspection

Discover the Next Evolution in High-Speed Inline Quality Inspection

The consumer electronics (CE), battery, and solar industries are pushing sensor design to new extremes of speed and performance. To meet this challenge, we created a new series of smart 3D laser line profilers that deliver 100% inspection of small parts at production speed.
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Preventing Crosstalk with Exposure Multiplexing

Preventing Crosstalk with Exposure Multiplexing

Learn how exposure multiplexing in Gocator® solves the problem of sensor "crosstalk" in multi-sensor networks where multiple fields of view overlap.
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the smart 3D solution for scanning glass

The Smart 3D Solution for Scanning Glass

Glass, shiny metal, and plastics pose a major challenge for quality control inspection as these materials are highly specular and not well-suited to traditional laser measurement technologies. This blog looks at our solution to this challenge based on the recently released Gocator® 2512.
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New 3D Surface Filter Tool

New 3D Surface Filters

Surface filtering is a powerful tool in machine vision used to generate “cleaner” image data and/or segment features for inspection.
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Working with 3D Surface Profiles

Working with 3D Surfaces and Profiles

In Gocator® firmware 5.2, the “Surface Section” tool was introduced to give users a new way to extract profiles from 3D surface scans. Profiles can then be measured using all of Gocator’s built-in profile measurement tools.
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5 Reason to Use a Smart Vision Accelerator

5 Reasons to Use a Smart Vision Accelerator

Discover the main reasons why using a smart vision accelerator is a better way to accelerate your inline inspection than using an industrial PC.
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the economics of choosing smart over simple

The Economics of Choosing Smart Over Simple

Learn how the term "smart" applies to the world of machine vision and why it is so important to improving your factory production.
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Universal Robots Integration with Gocator®

Universal Robots Meets Gocator

Engineers using UR robots can now easily integrate Gocator® smart 3D snapshot sensors into their applications. Gocator® is able to provide the UR robot not only with the “eyes” it needs in order to "see", but also the “mind” it needs in order to “think” and “do.”
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Surface Stitching

The Power of Surface Stitching

Learn how the Surface Stitch tool in Gocator® combines multiple scans from one sensor into a single 3D height map.
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Control 2019

Control 2019

WHEN: May 7-10, 2019
WHERE: Stuttgart, Germany
EXHIBITOR: LMI Technologies
PRODUCT(S): Gocator
BOOTH: 8102

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all about automation essen

All About Automation Essen

WHEN: June 5-6, 2019
WHERE: Essen, Germany
EXHIBITOR: Polytec GmbH
PRODUCT(S): Gocator
BOOTH: TBD

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ISS 2019

Image Sensing Show 2019

WHEN: June 12-14, 2019
WHERE: Yokohama, Japan
EXHIBITOR: LINX
PRODUCT(S): Gocator
BOOTH: TBD

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The Manufacturing Expo 2019

The Manufacturing Expo 2019

WHEN: June 19-22, 2019
WHERE: Bangkok, Thailand
EXHIBITOR: Abiz Technology Co.,Ltd.
PRODUCT(S): Gocator
BOOTH: 9B52  hall 99

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Laser World of Photonics

Laser World of Photonics

WHEN: June 24-26, 2019
WHERE: Munich, Germany
EXHIBITOR: Polytec GmbH
PRODUCT(S): Gocator
BOOTH: Hall A2, Booth 445

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LMI Technologies Launches New Gocator® 3D Smart Sensor for Scanning Glass and Other Specular Surfaces

The Gocator® 2512 laser line profiler is precision-engineered for scanning specular surfaces such as glass, polished metals and plastics.
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LMI Technologies Receives Official Universal Robots+ Certification

The UR certification applies specifically to Gocator® 3D snapshot sensors, providing robot vision-guidance, quality inspection, and smart pick-and-place.
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LMI Technologies Officially Launches The Next Evolution in 3D Scanning and Inspection

The company continues to advance smart 3D sensor technology with three new products for improved factory production, including a new series of high-speed 3D laser line profile sensors, the highest resolution industrial 3D snapshot sensor, and the industry's first-ever smart vision accelerator.
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LMI Technologies to Unveil Three New FactorySmart® 3D Inspection Products at Vision 2018 in Stuttgart

LMI Technologies (LMI), the global leader in 3D scanning and inspection, is pleased to announce that it will unveil three new 3D inspection products at this year’s Vision 2018 show in Stuttgart, Germany, November 6-8. The LMI booth (Hall 1, booth #1C14) will include LIVE product demos.
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LMI Technologies Officially Releases Gocator® Firmware 5.1

With Gocator® 5.1 users will benefit from a wide range of new built-in 3D surface measurement tools, easy Universal Robots (UR) integration for Gocator snapshot sensors, built-in PROFINET support and more.
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LMI Technologies Releases Dates for 2018 FactorySmart® Roadshow in Europe

During the Roadshow LMI Experts will be travelling the continent to demonstrate the latest Gocator 3D smart sensor technology. Each venue will provide a full Gocator experience, including one-on-one training and LIVE demonstrations of the latest LMI laser profile and snapshot sensors.
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LMI Technologies Named #43 in Top 50 Best Places to Work in Canada 2018

The list recognizes medium-sized companies that deliver excellence in employee satisfaction, inclusiveness, and an outstanding workplace culture.
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LMI Technologies Officially Releases Gocator Firmware 5.0 and New Laser Profiler Hardware Version

Latest Upgrade Introduces Major Developments Including High-Definition Visualizer, Multi-Sensor 360º Ring Layout, 6 DoF Alignment, and More.
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