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MVPRO_The 3D Impact in Automotive Production

The 3D Impact in Automotive Production

LMI Technologies share a case study on how cobot-mounted Gocator 3D snapshot sensors perform automotive gap and flush measurement and inspection.
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Smart 3D Robot Vision: The Science of Seamless System Integration

Smart 3D Robot Vision: The Science of Seamless System Integration

Learn how 3D smart sensors can be tightly integrated with robots to achieve a number of dynamic manufacturing processes.
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High Speed, Non-contact 3D Laser Scanning In The Rubber & Tyre Industry

High Speed, Non-contact 3D Laser Scanning In The Rubber & Tyre Industry

Rubber presents a challenge for optical-based measurement sensors. By nature, the black surface is difficult to capture reliable data from and accurately measure. This challenge is often intensified by the complex shapes into which rubber derivatives are extruded or molded. Read how Gocator 3D smart sensors can implement scanning and quality control functions for both in-process and final product inspection applications in rubber and tire manufacturing.
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3D scanning for shiny metal and black materials

3D Scanning for shiny metal and black materials

The Gocator 2530 is the latest 3D smart sensor from scanning and inspection specialist LMI Technologies. The 2530 offers quality control and factory automation engineers a high-speed 3D blue laser
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Smart 3D Vision for Welding

Smart 3D Vision for Welding

Today’s industrial robots require a pre-programmed motion plan. This is because without machine vision, parts must be exactly positioned in order for the robot to locate them in space. Adding smart 3D
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Accurate Pick-and-Place Robot

Accurate Pick-and-Place Robot

A Gocator® 2150 laser profiler is mounted to a Fanuc M10iA Robot. Engineers use Gocator’s built-in hand-eye calibration to determine the sensor coordinate transformation to robot coordinates. This
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How to Design a faster, smarter 3D sensor for small part inspection

How to Design a faster, smarter 3D sensor for small part inspection

In industries such as battery, consumer electronics (CE) and solar, the race for faster scanning, measurement and control is critical to delivering 100 percent inspection of small parts moving at production speed.
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IEN_Manufacturing Companies Must Automate their Production to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Manufacturing Companies Must Automate their Production to Stay Ahead of the Curve

As the adoption of collaborative robots is rapidly growing in the manufacturing industry, IEN interviewed Terry Arden, CEO at LMI Technologies, about the integration of 3D snapshot sensor into UR
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Measuring the Impossible with 3D Line Confocal Sensors

Measuring the Impossible with 3D Line Confocal Sensors - Part 1

With LCI, a major breakthrough is achieved using a novel off-axis confocal design that offers a line scan capability with numerous benefits over the traditional coaxial approach.
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Measuring Variation with Profile Template Matching

Measuring Variation with Profile Template Matching

In a real-world production process, the engineer may need to compare profile scans generated from manufactured parts to a “golden” contour, in order to measure variation and identify non-conformance.
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Introducing Surface Masking

Introducing Surface Masking

In certain inspection applications, the engineer needs to isolate a specific feature in order to take measurements of a part. We recently introduced the Surface Mask tool in Gocator® to solve this challenge.
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Optical Character Recognition with 3D Height Map Data

Reading Codes and Characters with Smart 3D Scanning - Part 2

The Surface OCR tool allows you to recognize and extract a string of text from surfaces, using either 3D height map scan data or 2D intensity scan data.
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1D barcode reading

Reading Codes and Characters with Smart 3D Scanning - Part 1

Many of today’s manufactured products have some type of printed or stamped text on their surface––whether it’s 2D or 3D barcodes, labels, or alphanumeric characters. The challenge is not only reading this text with speed and accuracy but doing so for both 2D intensity (flat) and 3D height map (raised/embossed) codes and characters.
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Multi-View 3D Scanning and Processing with Surface Stitching

Multi-View 3D Scanning and Processing - Part 3

In this approach to multi-view 3D scanning and processing, multiple scans from a single sensor are combined to build a 3D surface to which the engineer can apply measurements.
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Multi-View 3D Scanning and Processing

Multi-View 3D Scanning and Processing - Part 2

In part 2 we explore multi-view 3D scanning and processing using sensor networks.
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Multi-View 3D Scanning and Processing

Multi-View 3D Scanning and Processing - Part 1

Learn the different ways Gocator® 3D smart sensors can execute multi-view scanning and processing and the benefits of this unique built-in capability.
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Webinar: Gocator 6.1 Software Updates and v7.0 Beta Preview

Online Course: 2.5 Hour Introduction to Gocator Firmware GUI 6.0 and Measurement Tools

COST: Free
LEVEL: Introductory
DATE: September 17, 2020, 9:00AM PST
REGISTRATION: SESSION FULL

Online course Includes:

  • Interactive Instructor Led Training
  • Hands-on Activities on the Gocator Emulator
  • Introduction to Gocator 6.0 Software
  • .GS Activity Files
Webinar: Universal Robots with Gocator 3D Line Profilers

Webinar: Universal Robots with Gocator 3D Line Profilers

WHEN: September 29, 2020, 18:00 PST and September 30, 2020, 09:00 PST
SPEAKER: Michael Fisher, Industrial Automation expert
PRODUCT(S): Gocator, Univeral Robots (UR)
LEVEL: Intermediate
REGISTRATION: September 29, 2020 at 18:00 PST or September 30, 2020 at 09:00 PST

Webinar: Gocator 6.1 Software Updates and v7.0 Beta Preview

Webinar: Gocator 6.1 Software Updates and v7.0 Beta Preview

WHEN: October 20, 2020 at 18:00 PST and October 21, 2020 at 09:00 PST
SPEAKER: Nathan Funk, Robert Uebbing, Technical Product Managers
PRODUCT(S): Gocator firmware 6.1 and 7.0 beta
LEVEL: Introductory
REGISTRATION: October 20, 2020 at 18:00 PST or October 21, 2020 at 09:00 PST

Online Course: 2.5 Hour Introduction to Gocator Firmware GUI 6.0 and Measurement Tools Online Course

Online Course: 2.5 Hour Introduction to Gocator Firmware GUI 6.0 and Measurement Tools

COST: Free
LEVEL: Introductory
DATE: October 22, 2020, 9:00AM PST
REGISTRATION: SESSION FULL

Online course Includes:

  • Interactive Instructor Led Training
  • Hands-on Activities on the Gocator Emulator
  • Introduction to Gocator 6.0 Software
  • .GS Activity Files
Vision Shenzhen 2020

Vision Shenzhen 2020

WHEN: November 3-5, 2020
WHERE: Shenzhen, China
EXHIBITOR: LMI Technologies
PRODUCT(S): Gocator, LCI
BOOTH: 9F21

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LMI Technologies Named to the 2020 List of Best Workplaces™ in Manufacturing

The list is based on independent analysis of direct feedback from hundreds of surveyed organizations across Canada
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LMI Takes Another Big Step in Web-Enabled 3D Inspection Software

LMI is pleased to announce the official launch of Gocator® 6.0 software. This is a major release that introduces significant user interface improvements for enhanced productivity.
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LMI Technologies Named to the 2020 List of Best Workplaces™ in British Columbia

The list is based on independent analysis of direct feedback from thousands of surveyed employees working in leading organizations across the province
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Covid-19 Safety Plan

Employers in the province of British Columba are required to develop a COVID-19 Safety Plan that outlines the policies, guidelines, and procedures they have put in place to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
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LMI Technologies Response to COVID-19 Outbreak

Here are the steps that LMI Technologies has taken to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to secure our supply chain and services for our customers.
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LMI Technologies Launches Gocator 2530 High Speed, Blue Laser Profiler for 3D Scanning and Inspection in Battery, Consumer Electronics, and Rubber & Tire Applications

Gocator 2530 continues the signature high speed 3D blue laser profiling and compact design of the 2500 series, with a wider field of view and larger measurement range for more cost-effective implementation.
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LMI Technologies Launches 2 Meter Field of View Gocator® 2490 Laser Profiler for 3D Measurement and Inspection of Large Scan Targets

New 3D laser line profiler features ultra-wide field of view, large measurement range, expansive scan area, and high XYZ resolutions for complete dimensional gauging and robust 2D/3D inspection
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Gocator® 2512 Smart 3D Laser Profile Sensor Awarded inVision Top Innovation 2020

The award-winning Gocator 2512 smart sensor is precision-engineered for scanning specular surfaces such as glass, polished metals, and plastics.
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