Good morning! Vision inspection systems have evolved from simply inspecting finished parts and removing defective products before they reach customers to helping plastics processors quickly recognize developing problems. An official at Intravis Inc. describes how its systems can monitor individual cavities and generate large quantities of production data that can reveal problems almost immediately.

SPE Blow Molding Division honors student designers, scholarship winners and Flexicon unveils a low-profile conveyor.

We also have an interesting story from sister publication Smart Industry about how to capture real value, the enterprise software ecosystem is being remodeled from isolated application silos into an integrated, multi-agent canvas engineered to observe, contain, and execute automated intent across secure boundaries.

Ron Shinn, editor emeritus