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Volume 2, Issue 3
1 March 1982
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Review Article| March 01 1982

Vision system sorts castings at General Motors Canada Available to Purchase

Richard D. Baumann;
Richard D. Baumann
General Motors of Canada Ltd.
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David A. Wilmshurst
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General Motors of Canada Ltd.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6828
Print ISSN: 0260-2288
© MCB UP Limited
1982
Sensor Review (1982) 2 (3): 145–149.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb007579

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.

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