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Manufacturing Apps Bring Decision-Support to the Factory Floor
This whitepaper discusses how adding automated decision-support to manual processes speed inspection rates, improve end-to-end quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation for repeatable and traceable manufacturing.
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Protect Your Business with AI for Visual Inspection
This webinar will discuss how two manufacturers – a distillery and an electronics assembly operation – are using camera-based visual inspection to protect their brand and make manual processes repeatable,…
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Pleora AI Gateway: Use AI to Protect Your Brand
Automate inspection for consumer goods and packaging, with no coding skills required, to help ensure product quality and protect your brand reputation.
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Deploying Hybrid AI to Reduce Inspection Costs
Think AI is too costly or complex? Watch this on-demand webinar hosted by Pleora Technologies for practical insight on using "hybrid AI" to add advanced capabilities alongside existing inspection systems…
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Manufacturing Apps Bring Decision-Support to the Factory Floor
This whitepaper discusses how adding automated decision-support to manual processes speed inspection rates, improve end-to-end quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation for repeatable and traceable manufacturing.
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AI Consistency for Subjective Human Decisions
Learn how manufacturers are reducing costs and ensuring product quality with new app-based technologies that that make human decisions consistent, reliable and trackable
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Bringing AI to Electronics Assembly Inspection
This whitepaper discusses Industry 4.0 initiatives, manufacturing and assembly automation and decision-support tools for manual visual inspection, and data-based decisions for future planning, reporting and tracking.
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Simplified AI for Visual Inspection of Electronics
This whitepaper shares insights from electronics manufacturer using inspection apps to help operators detect errors such as incorrect components and orientation, solder defects, and through hole issues, for unique component…
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Improving Visual Inspection Quality with AI
This whitepaper discusses new visual inspection systems that leverage advances in no-code algorithm development and edge processing platforms make it easier and more cost-effective for manufacturers to add AI decision-support…
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Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection
This whitepaper discusses the basics around AI and machine learning, and common deployment concerns for organizations.
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Improve Production Yields With Hybrid AI
This whitepaper introduces "Hybrid AI" - a novel approach that combines the best of established machine vision processes and new AI capabilities.
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Case Study: No Code Hybrid AI in Inspection
Learn why one company facing issues related to pharmaceutical inspection is evaluating AI and "no code" algorithm plug-ins
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The Benefits of User Experience Design in Product Development
This whitepaper provides a brief overview on UXD, and then illustrates how this design approach uses customer data to better ensure products help meet the goals of their intended end-users.
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Machine Vision Makes the Move to Internet of Things
This paper discusses how machine vision can bring cost and performance benefits to Internet of Things applications, while enabling new machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities,
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Edge Processing Whitepaper
This paper discusses smart devices and edge processing as an asset to machine learning and AI capabilities as the space advances towards Industry 4.0 and IoT.
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The Networked Operating Room
This paper examines the use of GigE Vision interfaces in medical technology, highlights their unique advantages through application examples, and considers future developments in the medical field.
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Bringing AI to Quality Inspection
Adding automated decision-support for human operators helps speed visual inspection rates and improve product quality.
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GigE Vision Converter Software
The eBUS Edge™ software from Pleora Technologies Inc. converts embedded platforms, sensors, and cameras into GigE Vision devices.
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Automation and Decision-Support for Manual Inspection
Automating manual inspection speeds inspection rates, improves end-to-end product quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation to ensure manufacturing processes are repeatable and traceable.
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GigE gives 3D lease of life
Greg Blackman speaks to Pleora’s James Falconer about the latest versions of GigE Vision
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Building a twin
Pleora's Jonathan Hou offers insight into explores the efforts underway to improve connectivity in factories.
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Simplifying AI Deployment for Quality Inspection
Adopting a hybrid approach that marries classic and machine learning techniques for quality inspection can simplify deployment.
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USB Brings Cost and Connectivity Advantages to Imaging
As the USB standard has evolved, new opportunities for the technology are emerging in the traditional imaging market. More so, as machine vision moves into new markets, USB is a…
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NBASE-T Brings New Bandwidth to Imaging System Design
Advances from the telecommunications and networking market are driving continuing innovation that makes imaging more accessible and easier to use across a widening range of applications, with new NBASE-T technology…
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Vision Advantages for Military Imaging
Ethernet brought flexible networking, wider computing platform choice, and cabling advantages to real-time imaging. For military designers facing the same networking, computing, and cost challenges – plus an increasing demand…
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Machine Vision Brings Cost and Performance Advantages to Military Imaging
Military system designers are migrating to networked digital distribution technologies perfected in the factory automation market to meet cost and size, weight, and power (SWaP) demands, support future scalability, and…
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Five Trends for Imaging Technologies
Technology development moves at a dizzying pace. Check the newswire, and you’ll find a list of new products that leapfrog what was heralded as the “latest and greatest” just…
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Imaging Systems on the Move
Imaging technologies perfected for manufacturing processes are being integrated into monitoring and inspection systems for railway applications. By adopting Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) systems widely deployed in manufacturing, ITS designers can…
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Simplify AI for Automated Inspection
Pleora's AI solutions, including edge processing and an algorithm development platform, allow manufacturers to deploy advanced inspection capabilities with keeping proven machine vision infrastructure and end-user processes.
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Pleora Visual Inspection System Application Snapshot
Pleora's Visual Inspection System reduces quality escapes and gathers key data from incoming, in-process, and final manufacturing steps. Integrated Inspection apps require just one image to start, and automatically highlight…
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AI Decision-Support for Electronics Inspection
DICA Electronics uses Pleora's Visual Inspection System to reduce manufacturing quality escapes and gather key data from manual processes to help speed root cause analysis. The system uniquely requires just…
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Mixing Vodka and AI for Brand Management
Fast-growing distillery with unique spirits made from milk deploys Pleora's new Visual Inspection System to add AI-based decision-support for labelling and quality control.
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Simplify 3D Imaging for Machine Vision Inspection
Pleora's eBUS Tx software solution simplifies deployment of 3D for inspection applications. Add GigE vision connectivity to 3D devices, without additional hardware, to ensure interoperability with existing machine vision processing…
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Networking for Machine Vision with eBUS Edge
Streamline networking for advanced sensors and embedded processing. Pleora's eBUS Tx software solution helps machine vision designers to simplify interface design and deployment by converting any imaging device or sensor…
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AI for Situational Awareness
Pleora's sensor networking platform and AI expertise helps designers add decision-support capabilities to manned and unmanned systems.
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Military Sensor Networking and AI
Pleora's sensor networking and AI expertise helps simplify design and deployment of digital intelligence for advanced situational awareness. Pleora's RuggedCONNECT Smart Video Switcher solves real-time networking challenges to acquire and…
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AI for Military Imaging
Tools and expertise to help military manufacturers design and deploy advanced AI digital intelligence and situational awareness applications, with a fully integrated sensor networking platform with powerful processing to analyze…
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Pleora AI Gateway: Pharmaceutical Packaging Inspection
Automate or add decision-support for manual pharmaceutical packaging inspection
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Pleora AI Gateway: Logo and Symbol Inspection
Easily train an AI system to ensure logos and printing meet brand standards and compliance requirements.
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Pleora AI Gateway: Automated Measurement
Eliminate manual errors that slow processes and cost money by adopt AI to accurately measure samples, such as product packaging.
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Protect Your Business with AI for Visual Inspection
This webinar will discuss how two manufacturers – a distillery and an electronics assembly operation – are using camera-based visual inspection to protect their brand and make manual processes repeatable,…
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eBUS Edge - Cost and Design Advantages for Sensor Design
This live webinar will introduce the new technology, and describe how it is helping manufacturers quickly and cost-effectively design or upgrade imaging solutions for more advanced applications, including 3D inspection…
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The Future of Pharma – Reducing Risks and Costs with Hybrid AI
This on-demand webinar discusses how AI can help pharmaceutical manufacturers ensure product quality. In particular, the session discusses how AI can automate and add decision-support for manual inspection processes while…
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The Future of Food – Reducing Food Inspection Costs and Errors with Hybrid AI
This on-demand webinar discusses how AI and new sensor technologies can help manufacturers reduce costly errors and automate manual tasks in food inspection. The session covers the evolution of AI…
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Real-Time Sensor Networking and Machine Learning for Military Imaging
This webinar hosted by Pleora provides an overview on the role for real-time sensor networking and AI in military imaging systems, including driver enhancement and local situational awareness C4ISR applications.…
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“I need AI! What is AI?”
Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly one of the most hyped technologies of recent times, and with market hype comes a lot of confusion. And it's OK to be confused - Pleora…
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Deploying Hybrid AI to Reduce Inspection Costs
Think AI is too costly or complex? Watch this on-demand webinar hosted by Pleora Technologies for practical insight on using "hybrid AI" to add advanced capabilities alongside existing inspection systems…
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e2v Customer Conversation
With origins dating all the way back to the 1940s, e2v is a well established and trusted name when it comes to high-reliability solutions for systems in the medical, aerospace,…
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Dexela Customer Conversation
A dynamic company that specializes in innovative technologies for fast, low-dose x-ray imaging recently joined Pleora’s community of customers. We spoke with James Brodrick, Senior Electronic Engineer and Project Manager…
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Vision Engineering Solutions Customer Conversation
Vision Engineering Solutions boasts decades of experience designing, building and testing advanced electro-optical sensors and data collection systems for defense, aerospace and industrial applications. We spoke with Steve Testa Director,…
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Decision-Support for the Factory Floor
Despite decades of technology advances, humans remain a critical component to many manufacturing processes. For many small and medium sized enterprises the cost of automating production for short-run or customized products is uneconomical. However, from a quality assurance perspective, many are interested in technological advancements than can aid human operators in subjective decision-making, for consistent …
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VisionChina Shanghai
With over 300 exhibitors and 90,000 visitors, VisionChina Shanghai was a welcomed event for our team post-COVID — and the three-day event did not disappoint. In our standard booth space, we had four product demonstrations ready for visitors: Automated Applications Our eBUS Studio development platform reduces complexity, cost, and time for manufacturers and integrators designing and deploying …
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Unveiling the Power of Transforming Product Traceability in Manufacturing
In fast-paced manufacturing markets, product traceability is crucial for success. Traceability refers to the ability to track and trace the movement of products throughout the manufacturing process, from raw materials through to the end customer. This process involves capturing and recording relevant information about the product, such as its origin, manufacturing date, and batch number. …
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Implementing Machine Vision and AI into Your Manufacturing
As the manufacturing industry continues to embrace automation and digitization, technologies like artificial intelligence and machine vision, can unlock new levels of efficiency, transparency, and customer trust. By harnessing the power of machine vision, the manufacturing industry can transform its production practices and pave the way for a more secure and sustainable future. Implementing machine …
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The Future of Assembly Instructions
Technology is constantly evolving, and it comes as no surprise that even assembly instructions in manual manufacturing are undergoing remarkable transformations. Gone are the days of paper documents, and confusing diagrams. Enter the era of machine vision, where cutting-edge technology enhances the quality and efficiency of assembly instructions. Machine vision utilizes advanced imaging systems and …
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How AI is Transforming Manufacturing, Assembly, and Production
The Rise of AI in Manufacturing Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry. It is creating new opportunities for manufacturers with increased efficiencies, reduced costs, improved quality, and minimized downtime. With AI becoming more accessible and affordable for small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs), it’s essential to understand the benefits and best practices of implementing …
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State of Manufacturing Digitization in North America — A Study by Pleora Technologies
Recently, digitization for manufacturing has been all the buzz, as quality control and operations managers from all types of industries look to AI and automation solutions for a wide variety of applications. We are a part of that conversation too, as a manufacturer ourselves here at Pleora. As we chat with other manufacturers we are …
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Automate 2023 Takeaways — Bigger, Better and Bright Things Ahead
It’s a good sign when it takes a week to recover after a trade show. Automate 2023 in Detroit was a massive show, adding a few hundred more exhibitors over its first post-Covid event in 2022. And with that came a few thousand more square feet of exhibition space, meaning a meeting on the opposite end …
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Digitization Mistakes to Avoid
There are numerous articles on the benefits of digitization for manufacturers, but less coverage on common mistakes and missteps to try and avoid. It was a topic that came up during conversations with system integrators at a recent trade show. The area of expertise for one of the integrators was around robotics, where he noted that …
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Digitize with Vision!
Digitization and computer vision are complementary technologies that can be used together to achieve efficiency for manufacturing, but what is the difference between the two, and why do you need both? Digitization refers to the process of converting analog information into a digital format, allowing for easy data transmission, manipulation, and storage. It utilizes technology to …
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Manufacturing Apps Bring Decision-Support to the Factory Floor
This whitepaper discusses how adding automated decision-support to manual processes speed inspection rates, improve end-to-end quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation for repeatable and traceable manufacturing.
Download Whitepaper
AI Consistency for Subjective Human Decisions
Learn how manufacturers are reducing costs and ensuring product quality with new app-based technologies that that make human decisions consistent, reliable and trackable
Download Whitepaper
Bringing AI to Electronics Assembly Inspection
This whitepaper discusses Industry 4.0 initiatives, manufacturing and assembly automation and decision-support tools for manual visual inspection, and data-based decisions for future planning, reporting and tracking.
Download Whitepaper
Protect Your Business with AI for Visual Inspection
This webinar will discuss how two manufacturers – a distillery and an electronics assembly operation – are using camera-based visual inspection to protect their brand and make manual processes repeatable,…
Register to watch on-demand
Simplify AI for Automated Inspection
Pleora's AI solutions, including edge processing and an algorithm development platform, allow manufacturers to deploy advanced inspection capabilities with keeping proven machine vision infrastructure and end-user processes.
Watch the Video
Pleora Visual Inspection System Application Snapshot
Pleora's Visual Inspection System reduces quality escapes and gathers key data from incoming, in-process, and final manufacturing steps. Integrated Inspection apps require just one image to start, and automatically highlight…
Watch the Video
AI Decision-Support for Electronics Inspection
DICA Electronics uses Pleora's Visual Inspection System to reduce manufacturing quality escapes and gather key data from manual processes to help speed root cause analysis. The system uniquely requires just…
Watch the Video
Mixing Vodka and AI for Brand Management
Fast-growing distillery with unique spirits made from milk deploys Pleora's new Visual Inspection System to add AI-based decision-support for labelling and quality control.
Watch the Video
Bringing AI to Quality Inspection
Adding automated decision-support for human operators helps speed visual inspection rates and improve product quality.
Learn More
GigE Vision Converter Software
The eBUS Edge™ software from Pleora Technologies Inc. converts embedded platforms, sensors, and cameras into GigE Vision devices.
Learn More
Automation and Decision-Support for Manual Inspection
Automating manual inspection speeds inspection rates, improves end-to-end product quality, and provides more qualitative product evaluation to ensure manufacturing processes are repeatable and traceable.
Learn More
eBUS Edge - Cost and Design Advantages for Sensor Design
This live webinar will introduce the new technology, and describe how it is helping manufacturers quickly and cost-effectively design or upgrade imaging solutions for more advanced applications, including 3D inspection…
Register to watch on-demand