In Part 1 of this series, we briefly reviewed the importance of user roles, task scenarios, and the layout of displayed information in the design of MVC’s products. In part 2, we review how Machine Vision Consulting also incorporates key usability principles into the design of our product user interfaces.

MVC understands that just because machine vision applications are complex, the user interfaces to successfully run the applications do not have to be. In this two part series, MVC’s usability expert highlights how MVC approaches product design to insure usability principles are incorporated throughout the process, resulting in an intuitive interface that becomes transparent to the user in the accomplishment of the task.

Machine Vision Consulting (MVC) has been notified that the US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent on technology we developed in conjunction with one of our customers. MVC’s CTO and Co-Founder, Phil Gouin, and I are among the Inventors on the patent.
The patent, #7,599,516, is titled “Machine Vision Counting System Apparatus and Method”. The [...]

Machine Vision Consulting (MVC) often provides metrology applications for measurement of part features. Frequently, raw measurements are saved in simple file formats such as ‘csv’ or ‘txt’. These formats require additional programs for analysis and reporting of the data.
One convenient way MVC streamlines the analysis and reporting process is to store data in formatted Excel [...]

CircumSpect(TM) is used to inspect cylindrical labeled containers that cannot be oriented on the conveyor.