Design News - May 16, 2005

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Introduction Berran Industrial Group designed a packaging machine that attaches small tags to rings and then seals each ring in a small plastic bag. The jewelry company wanted an automated way to verify that each bag contained a ring, but for several reasons the sensors we use for other applications could not reliably perform that detection.

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