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Vision Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to the Automation.com portal for Vision with valuable information and resources for controls and automation engineers on vision systems. Vision and imaging systems coupled with software have advanced dramatically to serve a number of new applications including part recognition, reading bar codes, guiding robots and quality analysis.
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Articles
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Standard Gives Machine Vision Systems a New Image
- 01/29/12 Vision Systems Design, January 2012 By Vincent Rowley, Pleora Technologies There are four key elements that define the GigE Vision standard, and between them they explicitly specify how video is transmitted over the network and how devices on the network, such as cameras, are controlled. |
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Smart Cameras Think Outside the Box
- 01/29/12 Vision Systems Design, January 2012 By Dave Wilson Smart cameras with embedded processing capabilities are changing the vision landscape, allowing developers to run vision inspection applications without the need to burden a separate PC. |
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System Spies Spectral Signatures
- 01/29/12 Vision Systems Design, January 2012 By Andrew Wilson In certain industrial and machine-vision applications, it is necessary to know not just the intensity of every pixel in x-y space but also its wavelength. |
White Papers
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IR imaging for machine vision and process control
- 09/19/11 Automation.com, September 2011 By Jason Styron, FLIR Covers the technology behind infrared as a form of non-visible imaging, including detector technology, camera platforms, software, software analytics, and applications. The purpose of this is to highlight the use of IR technology for conventional machine vision applications. |
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Eight Tips for Optimal Machine Vision Lighting
- 06/29/11 By Microscan Systems Proper lighting is critical to the success of a machine vision application, and should be the first consideration when setting up a system. A well planned lighting solution will result in better system performance and save time, effort, and money in the long run. |
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Bulk Material Combustion Warning System
- 05/19/11 By FLIR FLIR’s Bulk Material Combustion Warning Systems use an infrared camera to generate a thermographic image of the area being monitored. This clearly shows hot spots on a remote video or PC monitor in real time and triggers an alarm. Here’s how these systems can be designed and used. |
Application Stories
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Toshiba Surveillance Protects Oregon Recycling Facility
- 01/22/12 R.S. Davis installed a Toshiba IP video system to provide premise security and to monitor truck traffic. |
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Achieving 100% error-free quality control
- 01/11/12 Control Engineering Europe, January 2012 Boehringer Ingelheim produces around 120 million blister packs of prescription-only drugs every year. It relies on vision solutions supplied by Cognex and Weber Systemtechnik to achieve its quality control objectives. |
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Machine Vision Joins Other Technologies to Secure the Homeland
- 12/29/11 Machine Vision On Line, December 2011 By Winn Hardin Here’s a look at the various ways vision systems are increasing security, including mobile platforms, and vision combined with radar. |
Resources & Literature
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IMPACT Vision Software Download
IMPACT vision software pairs with smart camera technology to provide enhanced usability and inspection capabilities for challenging machine vision applications. The API (application programming interface) works with the Microsoft ActiveX platform, allowing IMPACT data to be seamlessly embedded in local machine and/or factory control systems. Includes Pinpoint Pattern Find tool for high-speed inspection of randomly oriented, scaled, and located parts—with sub-pixel accuracy. |
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Alternative Vision announces online store
- 11/15/11 Site offers image sensors, frame grabbers, cameras, lenses, industrial computers, cables and enclosures. |
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Toshiba updates Surveillance & IP Video Website
- 10/05/11 The site includes self-learning resources, case studies, and a technical library with datasheets and white papers. |
Training & Seminars
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Product Announcements
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Vision Components releases VC Smart Inspect vision sensor for quality inspection tasks
- 01/24/12
VC Smart Inspect executes all image processing routines without an external PC. |
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e-con announces e-CAM52_35x camera daughter card
- 01/22/12
Daughter card is based on OmniVision OV5640 HD CMOS Image sensor for AM37x/DM37x processors from Texas Instruments. |
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autoVimation introduces Chameleon enclosures for cameras
- 01/22/12
Aluminum enclosures for cameras provide a sideways viewing direction and IP66 protection. |
Company & Organization News
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Greg Hollows of Edmund Optics Named AIA Chairman
- 01/19/12 Hollows succeeds Rusty Ponce de Leon, President, Phase 1 Technology, who remains on the AIA Board as Past Chairman. |
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How China is Stealing Our Secrets
- 01/22/12 PD&D, January 2012 By Michael P. Collins U.S. Intelligence agencies say that both Russia and China steal technology information over the internet as a matter of national policy. It is hard to say if China is still the red menace from the cold war, or if they have morphed into a new form of winner-take-all amoral version of capitalism. |
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Machine Vision Sales Up 15% Through September
- 12/06/11 Machine vision sales in North America rose 15% through the third quarter of 2011, according to the Automated Imaging Association (AIA). |
Project News
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Teledyne DALSA to build multispectral space sensor
- 12/09/11 Teledyne DALSA will develop a new multispectral sensor for an advanced earth observation application. |
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Paradox to supply wireless sensor networks to Harris Caprock
- 09/12/11 Harris Caprock will use Paradox Engineering’s PE.WSNi wireless sensor network for industrial data acquisition. |
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Advantech to supply computers to Industrial Video and Control
- 08/03/11 IVC provides IP-based video solutions by combining high-quality cameras, enclosures, and software for industrial, commercial, and military applications. |
Event News
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Industrial Supply 2012 Showcases U.S. Industrial Subcontractors
- 12/06/11 Leaders in the subcontracting business will be presenting their latest product developments in industrial materials to a vast audience attending HANNOVER MESSE. |
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HANNOVER MESSE 2012 focuses on sustainability
- 11/21/11 By adopting "greentelligence" as its keynote theme, HANNOVER MESSE 2012 has put the spotlight squarely on green technologies as a central growth driver for industry. |
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China is Partner Country of HANNOVER MESSE 2012
- 06/28/11 The People's Republic of China will be honored as the official Partner Country at HANNOVER MESSE 2012 (the Hannover Fair) in Hannover, Germany. |
Events
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