VIDEO: Describing the technology behind a product will do more to win customers than selling based on simplistic marketing techniques
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In developing new products, many software vendors leverage simple point, neighborhood, and global algorithms such as histogram equalization and Fourier analysis in their products—functions that are now commonplace and well documented, having been developed and used extensively over the past 50 years.
Newer and more novel algorithms dealing with image transformation, mapping, pattern matching, and image classification are also well-documented in journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).
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You make an excellent point, and have probably explained why so many industrial automation articles provide so little technical depth. The problem is not unique to our industry. It seems to be the job of marketing departments to control our product selection criteria, distracting us from the criteria we had originally wished to consider. We are told to purchase things based on long lists of features, instead of attempting to evaluate its quality, or how well it performs in the intended application.
I was recently shopping for a dishwasher. I don’t want bullet points, I want clean dishes. I want to compare hard specifications instead of trademarked gobbledygook like “SheerClean”, “EASYLOAD”, “ECOSENSE” and “Quiet Partner.” Good luck with that.
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