The Vision Show 2018 Boston – Top 3 Takeaways from This Year’s Show

The Vision Show 2018 Boston – Top 3 Takeaways from This Year’s Show
April 17, 2018

Every other year the Machine Vision industry looks forward to one of the most important trade shows for us in the industry – The Vision Show.  This year, The Vision Show 2018 seems to be a little bigger than in the past, with 150+ exhibitors in Boston. As with most industry and tradeshows, The Vision Show 2018 highlighted trends in the industry with conferences and speakers.  The latest trends in the industry seems to be in Embedded Vision, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Collaborative Robots (Cobots), to just name a few. Instead of focusing on the usual highlights of the
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Using Machine Vision to Improve Six Sigma – Rigorous Use of DMAIC Can Really Improve Your Product Quality

Using Machine Vision to Improve Six Sigma – Rigorous Use of DMAIC Can Really Improve Your Product Quality
April 3, 2018

​Applying the Six Sigma process can improve manufacturing performance and improve quality.  Six Sigma is a set of statistical tools and data-driven process used for process improvement – whether it is for manufacturing, finance, customer service, or any business process that can benefit from process improvement.  Of course for Keox Technologies, we work mainly in the context of manufacturing and improving our customers’ quality and process control. There are two main methodologies of Six Sigma – DMAIC and DMADV (for “Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control“ and “Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify“, respectively).  Keox Technologies follows a variant that
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