Vision sensor promises photoelectric ease
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SICK (UK) product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 1, 2008
The Inspector's rugged IP67-protected metal housing ensures it can withstand harsh industrial and production line environments, for quality assurance inspection in any location or orientation.
Sick UK will launch a powerful and innovative 2D vision sensor on Stand D 46 at the PPMA Show from 30th September to 2nd October 2008.
Inspector is as powerful as a camera and as easy to use as a standard photoelectric sensor.
Complete with integral lighting, powerful processing, Ethernet comms and rugged industrial housing, its competitive price enables the engineer to make a decision for quality inspection within existing budgets.
The Inspector's choice of illumination types, its powerful image evaluation capability and easily programmable configuration make it ideal for a wide range of packaging applications, from label presence and positioning, to pack sealing and level fill verification.
Integral Ethernet capability facilitates its integration with DCS communication networks.
The Inspector's rugged IP67-protected metal housing ensures it can withstand harsh industrial and production line environments, for quality assurance inspection in any location or orientation.
The housing incorporates either a standard ring light, or a unique diffuse dome light for successful inspection of glossy, reflective or metallic surfaces.
Integral lighting avoids additional and expensive lighting equipment, which needs careful setting up for consistently accurate results.
The Inspector's intelligent and fast algorithms and powerful processing enable it to meet the speed of any production line, with time optimised evaluation and real time differentiation with a simple pass/fail output.
Individual items do not require identical positioning for inspection, as the software evaluates edges, contours, contrasts, grey scale values or pixels in milliseconds regardless of alignment or ambient light levels.
Image capture and evaluation of multiple references occur as soon as an object enters the field of vision, without a trigger signal and thus reducing noncapture errors.
Configuration of the Inspector is consistently simple and intuitive, and can be achieved on a number of different complexity levels depending on the application requirements.
Simple handheld input or a sophisticated PC interface mean rapid teach-in, and the PC capability facilitates monitoring, statistics capture, recording and emulator testing on filed images.
Typical packaging and parts applications include: bowl feeder inspection, part verification even in multi-type production, surface defect inspection, label positioning, presence and vignetting, date code and revenue stamp presence, caps and seals inspection, contents of blister packs and sterile, soft components bags, level and fill heights, and pack uniformity and alignment in bulk packs.
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