“It’s the software, stupid,” quipped an industry executive regarding the importance of software relative to hardware components in machine vision systems (paraphrasing a U.S. presidential candidate’s widely-repeated comment from years ago about the economy). It is oftenand correctly stated that acquiring a high-quality, consistent image by means of proper illumination, optics and camera selection can account for 85% of the success of a machine vision application. This is the important “image delivery” side of machine vision system integration.
Every tool must be configured or “tuned” for a specific inspection.