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as Connect Tech and Nvidia – to allow customers easy integration of hardware and software systems. “Tis is key for us to be successful in embedded vision and the logistics market,” says Haselmeier. Zebra Technologies also has a wide
portfolio of logistics visibility products providing customers flexibility and choice, though in the form of complete hardware- software packages focused on ease of use. “Ease of use is what we want at all levels,” says Montanari. “At the engineering level, where you have control engineers who install the system, but also the operators’ level, who have to deal with a product every day.” Zebra is a relatively new entrant in the
machine vision industry, rather fortuitously announcing its arrival in 2021 just as the market was seeing an upsurge in interest. “We felt that we had the right know-how, the right go-to-market model to be a significant disruptor in the machine vision industry,” says Montanari. “But we realised that internally we needed to build on and expand the portfolio required for machine vision.” Two acquisitions – software company
Adaptive Vision and hardware and software supplier Matrox Imaging – changed that picture, bolstering Zebra’s fixed industrial scanning and machine vision capabilities and swelling its product portfolio. But the key to Zebra’s success (about 40% of its 2022 revenue came from logistics and manufacturing) has been flexible software. With its entire product family run on one
technology is most probably at its
‘CEP camera
simple-to-use platform – Zebra Aurora – customers can easily configure the devices for either fixed industrial scanning or machine vision, or repurpose for either use case, allowing them to meet evolving operational, market and compliance requirements.
Rise of the robots Te next step for Zebra is to add advanced robotics utilising machine vision to its stable. “One of the biggest trends in logistics
today is the adoption of robots everywhere – inbound, outbound and sorting,” says Montanari. “For us, it’s a very significant undertaking that you’ll probably see the results of somewhere in 2024, because again we want to make it as simple as reading a barcode.” When Zebra does release its robot
machine vision products, they will have stiff competition. Te likes of Basler, Yaskawa Motoman Robotics, ABB, Robomotive and others have vision-driven robots on the market for specific logistics tasks now. And there are many more OEMs providing the building blocks for logistics robots with advanced vision systems. Te Zivid Two industrial 3D camera
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family from Norwegian technology company Zivid is a prime example. Combining performance, flexibility and industrial build quality, Zivid’s palm-sized compact camera can be mounted statically or on a robot for pick-and-place applications such as parcel induction, sorting and packing, and (de)palletising. “What we pride ourselves on is what we call ‘true to reality point clouds’,” says John Leonard, Product Marketing Manager at Zivid. “And where we really excel is in reliable accuracy and trueness.” Accurate (in terms of precision and trueness) positioning and depth information is key to fine pick-and-place operations
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