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I Love LabVIEW: How I Came to Embrace the World’s Most Radical Programming “Language”
LabVIEW is a powerful, collaborative computer programming language for system integrators and engineers, but it’s so radical that it’s largely misunderstood. In this article, I tell the story about how I went from not understanding what I was looking at on the computer screen to twenty years later becoming a full-time LabVIEW consultant.
Everything I Love about Keyence
This article describes my experience as a system integrator working with machine vision products from Keyence. If you want to hear all the great things and a few of the frustrations, read this to get the raw truth.

How Machine Learning is Surprisingly Similar to Traditional Vision Software Development
Do I need to use machine learning for my factory automation vision project? Should I use machine learning or deep learning for my factory automation project? This article explains these concepts i simple terms using the example of automated candy identification.

The Centaur Approach: The Best Use of Artificial Intelligence
AI-based tools are quickly becoming part of the world as we know it. The Centaur Approach is the best way to take advantage of it.

Use This 5 Step Process to Quickly and Affordably Create Turnkey Vision Systems that Actually Work
Why do so many vision systems get abandoned in factories? It’s because the development process was all wrong. Follow these five steps to make sure that your project is successful.

Optozilla Kicks Off with a Founding Motto
Optozilla LLC launches by stating its motto: Listen and Help