Optical sensing/imaging/laser, digital & analog applications. Award-winning contract development, consulting, troubleshooting. Product upgrades and new product development. Improve quality and productivity winning turnkey systems, by detection, gauging & control. The firm solves practical problems for non-contact detection, gauging, and sorting; on-line manufacturing, product control, process and quality control: and automated monitoring, testing, and control. Axelrod Associates has outstanding strengths in practical applications of optics and computers to sensing. These are the critical skills for system reliability, meeting changing needs, and rapid development. An on-line QC system won the annual award of a ten-billion dollar Fortune 500 corporation. This automated, integrated gauging and defect detection system was developed and installed by Axelrod Associates in five months. Norman N. Axelrod Associates provides a full range of services. These include contract development, feasibility, turnkey systems, system integration, computer control, and software as well as project reviews, troubleshooting, and related services. Strong resources and experience in successfully applying technology support all projects. In-house resources include computer based vision systems and data acquisition systems, lasers, fiber optics, software (for testing, control, display, analysis, design, etc.), electronics, SmartOptics(SM) and RobustSystem(SM) methodologies (for reliability, performance, and cost-reduction), etc. Axelrod Associates has worked productively with hundreds of companies that use or make optical sensing and control equipment.