Keox and Innomiles: Building a Partner Relationship
Keox Technologies, Inc. and Innomiles International Co., Ltd. have announced a strategic partnership offering industrial machine vision solutions for customers in Asia and North America. Based on the cooperation, Keox Technologies will develop machine vision and other non-contact inspection solutions utilizing resources from Innomiles’ machine vision software and hardware, in addition to developing state-of-the-art customized […]
Why We Need Bold, Long-Term Innovation Strategies
Smart Manufacturing Magazine posted an article that Keox Technologies strongly believe in. We have been advocating similar concepts with industry colleagues, partners, and customers. This article articulates very well the less obvious, yet very significant, facts of how manufacturing innovation is crucial in driving the market and economy. An economic rule-of-thumb is that wherever manufacturing […]
This is NOT an Example of Lockout-Tagout (LOTO)
I’d have a word with the Safety Officer if I saw this onsite!
ASCII Table with Descriptions – Machine Vision Software Code Reference
ASCII, acronym for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”, was developed in the 1960’s but is still in important use today. We often need access to the ASCII table when coding our applications. Therefore, the following is a handy reference that we’d like to share with fellow engineers. The standard table has 128 characters, using […]
Equipment and Project Safety – Machine Vision Design and Installation
“Safety First!” – as cliché as it sounds and sometimes even said in humor, it is a very important statement. It is a deep conviction by the employees, managers, and owners of Keox Technologies, that NOBODY will get hurt or injured – employees, customers, vendors and anyone else. Although it’s a 24-hour constant task, one […]
Using Machine Vision to Improve Six Sigma – Rigorous Use of DMAIC Can Really Improve Your Product Quality
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 […]
There’s a Black and a Darker Black – Controlling Color
Keox Technologies was given an application by a client where they needed to differentiate colors of powder coated metal. The challenge is that some powder being Electrically Spray Deposited (ESD) were very similar in color such that the human eye cannot easily distinguish the coating result. Additionally, natural process variability of the powder coating process, […]
Jack of All Trades, Master of Some – 5 Most Important Skills to Look for in a Machine Vision Engineer
There’s no doubt about it – the Machine Vision Industry is poised to grow. It’s valued at 9.10 billion USD in 2016 and $19.22 billion by 2025. It’s clear that demand for Machine Vision Engineers is growing proportionally in order to handle this growth.