DECEMBER - 201919MANUFACTURINGTECHNOLOGYINSIGHTSPonfac's truly scalable, specialized, and innovative products find use cases across different areas, including establishing process control, reducing retail and logistics losses, and enhancing smart city initiatives. The company often develops its solutions in conjunction with its customers. The first step of every innovation consists of a four-handed operation between the customer and Ponfac professionals. The result is what Ponfac calls the functional and operational specification (FOS), which allows the customer to obtain the best of Ponfac's technology. FOS helps the participants to better understand the process and needs of the clients and end-customers. "The result is an innovation that adheres to the real need of the market, with faster acceptance and market penetration," adds Pontremoli.While building the solution, Ponfac allows customers to leverage different machine vision functionalities in a customized manner to meet their specific needs. "The ultimate solution will not only have lower cost and higher accuracy but also the specific features that better support client's manufacturing processes," mentions Pontremoli. A key differentiating factor for Ponfac is its multidisciplinary team that can understand and specify FOS and deliver innovation. "Our multidisciplinary team of highly skilled professionals receives ongoing training to develop innovative solutions," states Pontremoli. The company also facilitates direct contact between the clients and specialists. As a result, the degree of satisfaction with Ponfac machine vision solutions is superior compared to other players in the market. Another unique aspect of Ponfac is the partnerships they have cultivated with major vision system hardware vendors in the global market.Having carved a unique niche through their solution, Ponfac's development team is focused on two important innovations for the future. The first one is to popularize XReader, the company's newest image processing solution that is already being marketed by the Swedish company Gunnebo, a major player in the retail loss reduction market. Secondly, Ponfac has developed a solution in collaboration with Cisco, through the Cisco Innovation Center. The solution will allow customers to integrate Cisco's quality equipment with Ponfac's image processing technology to obtain information about the quantity and location of their products, especially in large, open yards. We deliver state of the art solutions that bring innovations for the customers and ultimately steer them ahead in the ever-crowed manufacturing space
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