| | | Our partners benef i t from LMI's strong team culture where wisdom, expertise, and originality are skillfully applied with a global applications mind set. LMI and our partners use powerful communications tools such as online engineering forums and web conferencing to ensure we meet all our OEM and integrators' performance requirements. For new vision sensor applications our dedicated sensor engineers work with your development group as a virtual team. For example, our partners typically develop the initial specifications and then work with the LMI Sensor Development Group to ref i ne the specif i cations, with LMI taking responsibility to develop the prototype. The challenging mechanical design and implementation tasks of selecting and resolving the imaging, cabling, power and data, lighting, sensor software development, packaging, and integration are all engineered by LMI with your direction. Partnering with you in this way allows your engineering department to invest its resources in other value-added initiatives such as application software development, machine frame design, and interaction with your customer groups. Trust is a cornerstone of the partnerships we develop. Sound relationships, some enduring more than 20 years with customers competing in the same industries, are testament both to our ethics and to having never compromised a customer's competitive position. Often our OEM and integrator partners choose to integrate LMI sensors that were previously developed for specif i c industry applications. In these situations, competitive differentiation is maintained because LMI vision sensors are so fi exible that unique competitive solutions can be easily built. Our partnering processes are further enhanced by LMI's Market Managers and Sensor Support Groups. Anywhere in the world, our dedicated global staff of technicians and applications specialists are available to provide on-site technical support. The result? Our partners benef i t from LMI's decades of optical inspection expertise, are able to maximize their own engineering resources, and get new products to market faster. | | |