The Vision System Acceptance Test: Defining "Done"

How do you know when a machine vision project is completed? How can you be sure all contractual obligations are met? The acceptance test answers these and other questions. West explains what the acceptance tests covers, where the criteria for the test come from, who performs the test and when, and some common difficulties and how they can be handled.

About the presenter
Perry C. West is president of Automated Vision Systems Inc., a leading consulting firm in the field of machine vision. He has over 43 years of experience in machine vision. This experience includes system design and development; development of both general purpose and application-specific software packages; optical engineering for both lighting and imaging; camera and interface design, education, and training; and manufacturing and engineering management. He received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. West is a past president of the Machine Vision Association of SME, and he received the MVA/SME Chairman’s Award for 1990 and an Association for Advancing Automation (A3) annual Achievement Award for 2003.