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LMI Technologies Partners with USS for New Product Launch
POSTED 01/12/2006
Windsor, Ontario, Canada, January 12, 2006 – LMI Technologies Inc., (LMI), a global leader in the design and manufacture of 3D Machine Vision Technology announced today that it has formalized an agreement with United Sales and Service Inc (USS), located in Livonia Michigan, to sell and integrate a new LMI product line aimed at providing industry with a solution for 3D Error Proofing. Under the terms of the agreement, USS will have non-exclusive rights for sales, distribution, and integration for the North American market of LMI’s new ‘SmartGage’ product line.
About LMI Technologies
LMI Technologies Automotive Division, located in Windsor Ontario, Canada, develops and manufactures laser based sensors for the dimensional measurement of automotive bodies and sub-assemblies. LMI Technologies Automotive Division is a part of the LMI Technologies Inc. global group, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. LMI is a trend setter in the development of Sensors that See™ utilizing 3D Machine Vision process monitoring and control. The LMI global group supplies sensors and systems for use in the wood, aviation, food, tire, road inspection, foundry, agriculture and automotive industries. LMI holds more than 100 patents for optical measurement, and leverages this expertise into application solutions.
LMI Technologies Automotive Division has been providing the automotive industry with innovative solutions since 1972, coupling vision application experience with measurement technologies.
‘‘We are expanding our markets to provide industry with tools that can help monitor and optimize their build processes. Being able to reach up-stream in a production line and provide valuable information related to a critical build point or tool can really help reduce scrap rates. We are very excited to have USS as a partner in this new venture’’ says President and CEO of LMI’s Automotive Division, Chris Lepain.
About United Sales & Services, Inc.
USS is North America’s largest, most diverse, most complete vision/laser error proofing integration company. To become this, however, required they become a ‘’total turn-key’‘ integrator.