Compact camera includes versatile software

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 8, 2008

The Impact A20 is rugged yet compact, offering high-performance on-board image processing, a digital imaging sensor, real-time I/O and 256Mbyte of on-board memory.

PPT Vision has released the Impact A20 intelligent camera.

The Impact A20, along with the bundled Impact Software Suite, delivers high-end machine vision power and flexibility in a vision sensor profile.

The Impact A20 is rugged yet compact, offering high-performance on-board image processing, a digital imaging sensor, real-time I/O and 256Mbyte of on-board memory.

Included in the Impact Software Suite, the Impact Vision Program Manager (VPM) now has more than 120 tools, including OCR, blob analysis, circle gauge, circular pattern find, line find, sub-pixel gauging and other vision tools that allow users to create vision programs to suit a broad range of applications.

A pre-configured operator panel is built within VPM so inspection data and pass/fail results can be displayed at the touch of a button, within the same software application.

Impact Control Panel Manager (CPM), now comes with more than 60 fully-configurable controls, allowing users to create custom, professional control panels with multiple image displays, data charts, real-time inspection results with password-protected panels, frames and tabs.

The Impact Software Suite comes with multilanguage support.

Users can create a language resource file in their local language such that all user-interface text within the software can be displayed in their local language.

Completed resource files for Chinese, Japanese and German are currently available for distribution.

Along with its powerful algorithms and one-of-a-kind, sophisticated, user-friendly software interface, the Impact A20 offers all the functionality of a high-end vision system in a sensor footprint.

A broad array of discrete I/O, serial, Ethernet/IP, TCP/IP, HTTP and ActiveX communication protocols make the Impact A20 compatible with a full spectrum of industrial control equipment and instrumentation.