Improving quality and productivity is the key to survival in today's competitive world. The "bottom-line" demands improving both and customers demand the best in quality. Machine vision, intelligent sensors and automated inspection technology are specific tools that can assist a company to achieve quality and productivity improving goals.

VSI recognizes that many companies do not have staff and know-how to design and implement projects associated with all advanced manufacturing technologies. VSI services cost effectively and quickly complement and augment your staff know-how specifically in the fields of machine vision, machine perception, automated inspection and intelligent sensors. The result of the VSI approach is not only to assist you on a specific project but also to train a staff to become self-sufficient to implement subsequent similar projects.

An assignment typically includes a site visit to perform a project evaluation. This is helpful to interpret the application requirements and appearance and other variables. These must be understood and reflected in a specification defining the application and system requirements. The systematic approach virtually guarantees a successful application with a minimum of organizational disturbances stemming from the adoption of new technology.

• Reduce time it takes for staff to learn about machine vision
• Reduce time it takes to identify vendors
• Eliminate "resistance to change" as a barrier to adoption.

• Optimizes match of system solution to needs
• Reduces risk in selection of specific solution
• Eliminates need to divert existing staff resources
• Eliminates relying on biased vendors for input.

• Assessment of true measure of opportunity cost
• Integration of all functional units of the organization
• Acceleration of rate of implementation
• Acceleration of realization of gains in quality, customer satisfaction, productivity and profits.

• Quality planning because Vision Systems International is: methodical, objective, innovative, and both tactical and strategical.
• Wise spending on consulting services because Vision Systems International: works as part of your team, strives for consensus, has very high productivity, has very low overhead and works on a fixed - cost basis.
• Wise spending for systems integration because Vision Systems International: will establish the correct plan of action, will prepare quality bid specifications, is respected and well known throughout the machine vision community and will work in harmony with your organization.
• Successful implementation because Vision Systems International: has the experience, has on-site orientation, becomes a part of your team and is implementation oriented.

electrical connectors, electrical switches, medical devices, automotive components and assemblies, populated electronic printed circuit boards, lamps, batteries, solar cells, consumer electronics, military electronics, electric meters, appliances, semiconductors and seat belts.

pharmaceuticals, medical devices, personal products, food, confectionery/candy, baked goods, tobacco and food grower/cooperative.

cans, closures, safety razors, turbine blades/air foils, stampings, lead frames, baked goods, medical devices, bare electronic circuit boards, plate glass, glassware, credit cards, false teeth, plastic sheet, paper, confectionery/candy, synthetic skin, fiberglass, roofing shingles, ready to assemble wood products, appliances, plastics, eyewear, solar cells, and commemorative coins.

coaters, printers, textiles and food processors.

Ore sizing, electric utility robot/vision, package handler robot/vision, TV rating service/facial recognition, egg farming, and gaming/OCR.

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NELLO ZUECH, founder of Vision Systems International, has been engaged in the field of machine vision, electro-optics and factory automation for over 25 years. He has been involved in the application of machine vision and related advanced manufacturing technology in virtually all manufacturing industries and in all phases of the production process: incoming inspection, forming and assembling operations, testing, packaging, warehousing and work-in-process monitoring.

His professional experience encompasses a wide variety of assignments in engineering, production, quality control, program management, and sales and marketing. Mr. Zuech has held executive positions with ORS, the EMR Group of Schlumberger, CBS Laboratories, National Science Foundation and Raytheon.

Mr. Zuech holds masters' degrees in management and electrical engineering from the Baruch School of the City University of New York and New York University. Since establishing VSI, he has authored a book titled "Applying Machine Vision" published by Wiley; co-authored a book titled "Machine Vision" with Richard Miller and published by Chapman & Hall; edited the "Machine Vision Glossary of Terms" published by the Automated Imaging Association; and edited the books titled "Machine Vision: Capabilities for Industry" and "Gaging With Vision Systems" published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has also co-authored, with Jim Dunseth, the chapter on machine vision for an "Encyclopedia on Robotics" published by Wiley and has written a chapter on machine vision for and edited the "Handbook of Intelligent Sensors for Industrial Automation" published by Addison-Wesley Longman.

He has also written numerous articles that have appeared in various trade periodicals and chaired numerous sessions for the SME, ISA, and other professional societies. A member of the World Bank Consultancy Registry, SME College of Fellows, IEEE and IEEE Consulting Group, SPIE, and Tau Beta Pi, he was also a charter member of the Machine Vision Association, past Chairperson and recipient of their Chairperson's Award in 1994. The SME has honored him granting him Certification by Stature as a Manufacturing Engineer, Machine Vision Engineer.

Vision Systems International draws on a range of expert consultants in the diverse technological areas related to automated inspection, machine intelligence, machine vision, intelligent sensors, systems engineering, software design, material handling, robotics and factory automation. Part of the function of Vision Systems International is to provide their clients with the appropriate complement of skills when they need it.