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Free machine vision seminar

April 2004 Training & Education Access Control & Identity Management Products & Solutions

National Instruments is inviting interested parties to attend this free seminar. The live demonstrations are designed to help attendees make complicated machine vision issues simple.

Dr James Olive (PhD Materials Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), district sales manager for National Instruments headquarters in Austin, Texas, will be the guest presenter at this seminar. In his five years at NI, he has managed large projects on a global scale. In addition to this, James is responsible for the training of engineers, assistance with research of automation and instrumentation systems, from design through to programming and more. His past achievements and projects include being an integral team member of TEMPUS, in the NASA Micro-activity laboratories 1 & 2 on the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Readers are invited to take this opportunity to learn the fundamentals of image acquisition technologies, including optics, lighting, cameras, hardware and software. Gain tips and proven strategies that can be applied to real machine vision applications, from high-speed packaging inspection to high-precision assembly verification.

Who should attend:

This seminar is designed for engineers and scientists involved in test and measurement projects so that they can learn about the latest features in Vision Builder for Automated Inspection.

This seminar demonstrates:

* An interactive, menu-driven environment for developing machine vision applications.

* Automatic LabVIEW code generation.

* Image acquisition capabilities from NI PCI and PXI image acquisition devices and FireWire industrial cameras.

* Measurements in pixels and real-world units.

* Control of digital I/O, PLCs and serial devices.

* Image processing, pattern matching, blob analysis, optical character recognition and spatial calibration.

Dates and venues:

Cape Town

Venue: Holiday Inn Garden Court (Cape Town, Eastern Blvd)

Address: Cnr Melbourne and Coronation Roads, Woodstock

Date: 29 April 2004

Times: 09H00-12H00

Port Elizabeth

Venue: Protea Hotel Edward & Conference Centre

Address: Cnr Belmont Terrace & Western Road, Central Port Elizabeth

Date: 3 May 2004

Times: 09H00-12H00

Durban

Venue: The Westville Hotel

Address: 124 Jan Hoffmeyer Road, Westville

Date: 5 May 2004

Times: 09H00-12H00

Midrand

Venue: The Midrand Conference Centre

Address: 280 Pendulem Road, Halfway House ext 12

Date: 7 May 2004

Times: 09H00-12H00

Seating is limited - contact National Instruments by e-mail to register for free by supplying your name, company, e=mail address, telephone number, fax number and postal/physical address. The toll free number is 0800 203 199.

For more information contact Michael Hutton, National Instruments SA, 011 805 8197, [email protected], www.ni.com/southafrica





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