ABSTRACT
From the mid to late 1 980's application-specific machine vision systems were being developed to address the needs of virtually every manufacturing in dustry: Key Technology and Simco Ramic (now Advanced Machine Vision Cor poration) for food grading and sorting applications at food processors; Design Systems a 3D system for water jet cutters and portioning of fish, poultry, and meat; Kanebo and Fuj i for tablet inspection in the pharmaceutical industry; Eisai for particulate in solution detection; Ball and Inex Vision Systems a family of products for glass container inspection; Pressco and Ball, products for the metal container industry; Control Automation (now Teradyne) and IRIlMachine Vision Products populated printed circuit board inspection systems; Orbotech and others, systems to inspect bare boards; and so forth.
