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Light Projection Technology for Automated Manufacturing
Texas Instruments’ DLP technology could improve 3-D printing and machine vision for autonomous manufacturing.
With a structured light scan using DLP technology, the dimensions of any object, including surface area, volume and feature size, can be extracted. [Courtesy of Texas Instruments]
Additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, and 3-D machine vision are new technologies that have spurred a lot of excitement—and, taken together, they have the potential to create some new, efficient modes of production. Particularly intriguing is the notion of “autonomous manufacturing”—essentially a one-stop machine shop that uses 3-D printing to create a part and machine vision to measure and test it, without human supervision.
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