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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – Hexagon Metrology Inc. (North Kingstow n, Rhode Island, United States) has been issued patent number 12066808, accordin g to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors. The patent’s inventors are Dove, Jonathan (Woodstock, IL, US), O’Hare, Jonathan J. (East Greenwich, RI, US). This patent was filed on November 24, 2021 and was published online on August 20 , 2024. From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: “BACKGROUND ART “One of the most rapidly growing areas in manufacturing is automation. Companies today need to be globally competitive and thus must be able to justify highly s killed labor through the efficiency of their operation. To this end, collaborati ve robots (COBOTs) as well as other automated machinery, must be effectively int egrated into each production process and work as independently of human interven tion as possible. “One such production process in many manufacturing operations is the inspection or measurement process. Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) have long been used to assist in providing critical measurement data to provide the necessary feedb ack to control all of the other processes responsible for producing the product. Conventional CMMs do not collaborate with other equipment or share the informat ion they acquire to enable process level decisions to be made on their own. CMMs still often rely on human operators to make decisions to prepare parts for insp ection as well as analyze the results for corrective action.”
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