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Glen Ahearn is a sales and applications support manager at Teledyne DALSA. He has been in the vision industry for 32 years, and worked for companies who pioneered developments in the vision industry. For more information, visit www.teledynedalsa.com.
Several critical components need to come together to form a machine vision system. This includes the sensor (typically within a camera) that captures a picture for inspection, the processing hardware (a PC or vision appliance) and software algorithms to render and communicate the results. In addition, lighting, staging, and lenses are required to set up a machine vision system.