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.

Industrial machine vision cameras and sensors are finding their way into applications both on and off the manufacturing floor.

You’ve learned about light sources, lenses, cameras, camera interfaces, and image processing software. Now, you may be wondering exactly how to design and implement a complete, successful machine vision system. 

The RazerCam LS is a smart line scan camera, which is freely programmable under Linux OS. High data rates are supported by the powerful FPGA and the camera is optimized for high computing power and fast frame rates. 

Recently borescope manufacturers have been introducing high definition video borescopes to the market. It is important to understand the benefits of this new technology and what it will mean for your inspection program.

ISVI Corp. signed a distribution agreement with Advanced Imaging Components Inc.

Smart, small and flexible—smart cameras combine a standard machine vision camera, programmable processing, communications and sometimes lighting, in a small enclosure.

The Nanosmart-PoE is a small 5-megapixel intelligent camera with active Power over Ethernet (PoE) in an industrial housing.

Three new models in the Falcon high performance camera family are now available.

The IK-HR1S HD camera has a ?-inch complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) detector with 2.1 megapixels.