Product category:
Vision and Colour Sensors
News Release from: Data Translation
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 March 2000
Big educational discounts for vision
software
Data Translation today announced a 70% discount to educational users on two new software packages.
Data Translation today announced an amazing 70% discount to educational users on two new software packages Global Lab Image/2, for scientific imaging, and DT Vision Foundry machine vision software, have both been reduced in price for universities and colleges in a bid to encourage universities to adopt the technology
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Data Translation appreciate that educational users don't always have a large budget available to them" explains Nigel Doe, UK Sales Manager "but we also recognise that itûs important for universities to keep in touch with the latest technology being used in industry today, which is why we're offering these new software packages at such low prices".
Global Lab Image/2 is down from £1,695.00 to £495.00 and DT Vision Foundry from £3,450.00 to £895.00.
Global Lab Image/2 is an object-oriented, scientific imaging software package that makes it easy to develop complex applications.
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New data acquisition/TandM software launched
Data Translation today announced that it will commence offering TestPoint, an innovative software tool for creating custom test, measurement, and data acquisition applications.
Plug-and-play data acquisition for USB PCs
Data Translation today announced the DT9800-EC Series, a family of multifunctional data acquisition modules that brings true plug-and-play data acquisition to PCs with Universal Serial Bus ports
The software is ideal for scientific applications requiring measuring, classification, counting, size distribution analysis, and other measurements, and it supports most Data Translation frame grabbers.
DT Vision Foundry is a machine vision software package that makes it easy to develop simple or complex applications.
Machine vision software is used in industrial applications to inspect the quality of items on the production line, either moving or stationary, guaranteeing 100% inspection therefore helping to eliminate quality issues.
DT Vision Foundry provides the user with an easy-to-use, intuitive package capable of simultaneously inspecting various parts of an object and interfacing easily to production line situations.
Price and availability Both software packages are available now from stock.
All associated hardware such as frame grabbers, digital I/O boards and accessories, are available from Data Translation with a standard 5% educational discount.
Background: Data Translation is a leader in the design, development and manufacture of high performance data acquisition and imaging products.
For more than two decades, Data Translationûs products have provided engineers and scientists with accurate and timely data for measurement, analysis and process control in a wide range of industrial, scientific and medical applications.
Data Translationûs principal products in this area are data acquisition and imaging hardware, which are used in personal computers ("PCs") to receive analog signals, convert them to digital form and process the digital data.
Data Translationûs strategy is to identify and capitalise on growth opportunities in the data acquisition, imaging and machine vision markets.
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