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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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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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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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Vision-Critical Networked Video
This whitepaper examines the benefits of Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) networked video, illustrates some of its key characteristics in the context of a number of primary applications, and draws conclusions as…
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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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Digital Transformation is a Collaborative Journey and Not an ROI Project
7 years is how long I have been involved with the term ‘manufacturing’. Sure, this may not be as long as others, yet it is long enough to understand that manufacturing can be interesting for a lifetime, logical enough to keep the brain sharp and will continue to be a critical component of every nation’s economy. …
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“Quick Wins” for Manufacturing Automation and Manual Processes
Throughout 2022, we’ve attended numerous manufacturing trade shows, including exhibiting, walking the floor, and speaking during educational or “state of the industry” panels. As a technology solutions provider, these are always great opportunities for us to get a first-hand, end-user view on challenges, requirements, and adoption hurdles. Two of the most significant takeaways for me from …
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The Food and Beverage Industry [in Canada] is Under-digitized
The Canadian food & beverage industry has grown by 5% in 2021, 4.1% in 2022, and is expected to grow another 11.6% by the end of 2025 — yet according to Statistics Canada’s 2022 BDC Food and Beverage Industry Report, the Canadian manufacturers in the sector are substantially under-digitized. “The food industry has lagged behind other sectors …
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Taking Apps and Integrations on the Road
It’s no real secret, but the key to successful product development is listening to customers and understanding their pain points. The best products have continued to evolve to meet new and changing end-user needs. I’ll use mobile phones as a great example, where my first device untethered me from a wired desk phone and made me …
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How to Build a Digital Process for Traceability
Digital Transformation has become such a buzzword recently, especially for markets with high-value manufactured products and highly regulated industries. But, what is it about digital transformation that draws attention? Is it only the idea of digitizing all paper-based processes, or are people hungry for something deeper? For many manufacturers, digital traceability is the first item …
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The Democratization of AI-Powered Inspection
Humans do an excellent job at visual inspection. We can spot differences, learn quickly, learn by example, and we are highly adaptable. Unfortunately, when we get tired, bored, or distracted, we tend to make mistakes. Because humans are so great at variation and adaptability many manufacturers rely on human inspection at key production points in …
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How No-code and Low-code are Driving Manufacturing “Apps”
There is a No-code revolution happening, and it is happening everywhere. Within the school system students as young as kinder age are beginning to learn the foundations and concepts of “coding” — all without an actual requirement for a written line of code. No-code visual programming tools are used in schools, thanks to concepts like MIT Scratch (ScratchJr: …
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I Want the Best of Both Worlds
“I want the best of both worlds.” I don’t think Sammy Hagar was singing about machine vision and AI while fronting Van Halen (as a second-rate replacement for David Lee Roth, but that’s a topic for a whole other blog), but it’s a hot topic for manufacturers. Undoubtedly, there’s a lot of hype around AI. …
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The Manufacturing Challenge and Automate 2022
What a return to live events Automate 2022! Hosted in Detroit by the A3 Association for Advancing Automation, the four-day event showcasing the latest and greatest technologies for the manufacturing industry brought together over 20,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors. Pleora’s booth was a busy destination, with manufacturers and integrators checking out live demos of “hybrid …
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Visual Inspection for Electronics Manufacturing
There are several points in an electronics manufacturing or assembly process where a combination of machine vision automation and new AI tools can help improve product quality. Depending on the manufacturer or the product, human visual inspection is often still an important step in the production process. For example, in short-run or custom manufacturing, it …
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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
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
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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