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Optimize your application

You have already installed your Pickit system and performed your first pick. Now you wonder, what does it take to optimize my application and have it ready to run in production?

The following articles answer the most common questions that arise when ramping up from a proof of concept to having a successfully running application.

• Hardware
  • What is the ideal distance to mount the Pickit camera?
  • Should the camera be fixed or robot-mounted?
  • How to route the cables of a robot-mounted camera?
  • What makes a good tool for bin picking?
• Detection
  • How to get more detections?
  • How to get rid of false detections?
  • How to have faster detections?
  • How to detect on a bin or pallet larger than the camera field of view?
  • How to reject detections that deviate from an expected object location?
• Picking
  • How to get more pickable parts?
  • How to improve picking accuracy?
  • How to place parts with higher accuracy than that of bin picking?
  • How to prevent the robot from trying to pick the same part over and over?
• Robot programming
  • How to check why picking stopped?
  • How to have faster cycle times?