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Automated Pad Printing & Machine Vision Inspection

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent The customer needed a rock-solid design for a medical pad printing project and turned to Invent Automation. A very clean and simple design accommodated several part numbers at an ergonomic height for the operator to load and unload. If a bad pad print was found, the machine vision system would identify it, … Continued

Laser Marker With Machine Vision Guidance

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent The cost of a recall can bring even the biggest companies to their knees. Truly, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in the world of automotive glass. By laser marking each piece of glass in the precise position, oven heat lot information can be stored related to the … Continued

Automated Laser Part Marker With Pallet Loader

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent Laser part marking with no downtime for loading and unloading? Challenge accepted! Invent Automation’s customer required two parts to be marked while the operator was loading another two. Both parts had to be marked on two sides. Additionally, the unit had to be moveable and have a small footprint. No problem, as … Continued

Small Date Code Press

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent Sometimes the small things are the big things. When your biggest automotive customer requires you to stamp a part with a date code after it passes all upstream tests, you do it. Invent Automation made this cute little tool to accommodate three-part numbers with no changeover. While the task was straightforward, we … Continued

Machine Vision for Thermoformed Product

By Adam Nelson

Impetus to Invent The Ford F-150 thermoformed acoustic barrier had an extreme number of holes and waterjet cutouts. The automation and operators were responsible for removing these, but if inspected manually, there was a high likelihood of an escape to Ford. What to do? It was the perfect opportunity for Invent Automation to create an … Continued

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