Machine Vision-Backed Industrial Manufacturing—Iain Smith—Fisher Smith
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Iain Smith is the managing director and founder of Fisher Smith, a company that brings machine vision technology to the industrial sector.
In this episode, you'll learn the following:
- How computer vision technology can allow for more efficient and accurate production of various goods, including pharmaceutical drugs and automotive parts
- How to mitigate one of the main trade-offs with computer vision technology
- How acutely this technology can detect variations from one product to the next
In less than a tenth of a second, the machine vision technology at Fisher Smith can acquire, inspect, and automatically categorize an item as either a reject that should be removed from the production line, or as an item that's been manufactured precisely as it was designed.
This provides a huge benefit to companies in the industrial sector, particularly those that rely on high-speed manufacturing and consistent quality, such as automotive and drug manufacturers.
Smith gives us an inside look at how this technology works, how it can address and prevent supply chain issues, how it can identify error propagation, the idea of "industry 4.0" or the fourth industrial revolution and how computer technology might play a role, innovations on the horizon (including high speed flaw detection using deep learning), and more.
Visit https://fishersmith.co.uk/ for more information.
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| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I have Ian Smith. |
| 0:42.0 | He is the founder and MD of Fisher Smith. We're going to be talking about |
| 0:46.4 | machine vision. He's been with Fisher Smith in 15 years and he's a machine vision specialist and software engineer. |
| 0:53.3 | So again, machine vision, I'm used to hearing stories of, |
| 0:57.4 | is it a cat, is it not a cat type of thing? |
| 1:00.1 | But I'm sure it goes way beyond that. |
| 1:01.7 | So, Ian, how you doing? I'm very well goes way beyond that so Ian how you doing I'm very well thanks Richard how are you? |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah good so you're not working on seeing if something's a cat or not I'm sure you're doing much better things |
| 1:10.1 | what what are you doing in the world the machine vision? Well, it's certainly different. |
| 1:15.0 | So really my focus in machine vision is on the industrial side of things. |
| 1:21.0 | So very rarely in industrial settings are we looking for cats and dogs. |
| 1:25.2 | Now maybe apples and pairs if you're trying to sort sort fruit out in a sort of a agricultural industrial environment, but more than likely we're looking at things that are in a |
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