Vision system sorts castings at General Motors Canada

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.

Citation

Baumann, R.D. and Wilmshurst, D.A. (1982), "Vision system sorts castings at General Motors Canada", Sensor Review, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 145-149. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb007579