Surpassing System Integration - ATS Automation Builds Own PC to Integrate Vision and Conveyance

摘要

MACHINE BUILDERS and system integrators do many unexpected jobs to serve their end users, but even the most innovative can't design and build their own industrial computers, right? Wrong. In fact, legendary system integrator ATS Automation (www.atsautomation.com) in Cambridge, Ontario, recently built its own computer from scratch to better coordinate its 12-year-old Supertrak conveyor. With its 3-year-old SmartVision system. ATS exhibited its year-old Cortex computer at the recent ProMat/Automate 2011 show in Chicago.