Field notes

Notes from the factory floor.

Practical engineering guides from CODETRACE — written from delivered projects, with real numbers and the trade-offs vendors don't put in brochures. Pick your territory.

Three territories

Machine Vision

Quality escapes — defects human inspection misses, rework, returns. AOI, deep learning, and vision AI with the numbers attached.

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Smart Warehouse

Space and stock — floor full, counts wrong, picking too slow. ASRS, AMR, and WMS from the pallet up.

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Factory Automation

Labour and capacity — lines you can't staff, output capped by shifts, no standard machine that fits. PLC, robotics, and turnkey builds.

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