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Vision system sorts castings at General Motors Canada

Richard D. Baumann, David A. Wilmshurst

Year
1982
Citations
6

Abstract

The first production implementation of the General Motors Consight vision system at the St. Catherines, Ontario, foundry is successfully sorting up to six different castings at up to 1,400 an hour from a belt conveyor using three industrial robots in a harsh manufacturing environment.

Keywords

Conveyor beltSortingManufacturing engineeringMachine visionFoundryRobotEngineeringGeneral motorsAutomotive engineeringMechanical engineering

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