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Image processing over 10 kilometers: new LX cameras with fiber optics interface

Image processing over 10 kilometers: new LX ...

Baumer: Five new models with a 10 GigE Vision compliant interface for use with optical cables expand the Baumer LX series. The cameras are ideal for applications requiring a high bandwidth of 1.1 GB/s over long distances. In accordance with the SFP+ module...

2019-04-30
Compact IR cameras with industrial accessories

Compact IR cameras with industrial accessories

Optris GmbH: The infrared cameras from the Optris Compact Line, the Xi 80 and Xi 400, have been supplemented with new industrial accessories for use in rough conditions. The system has a modular design and as a result, the water cooled housing,...

2019-04-08
Problems With Folds?

Problems With Folds?

Sensor Instruments GmbH: In the production of oil and air filters for the automobile industry these filters must reach the required throughput rate, which is achieved by folding the filter material so that it provides a large filter surface on a...

2019-03-26
Choose the Right Side

Choose the Right Side

Sensor Instruments GmbH: 95% of all the industrially produced flat glass today is made using the float glass process. In this process, molten glass is continuously fed into a bath of molten tin. Due to its lower specific weight the molten glass...

2019-03-25
Welding Seam Detection With Edge Detectors

Welding Seam Detection With Edge Detectors

Sensor Instruments GmbH: For the detection of welding seams, contrast or color sensors would seem to be the proper solution, because in most cases the welding seam optically shows a clear difference from the surrounding product surface. In...

2019-03-22
Connected to the Future!

Connected to the Future!

Sensor Instruments GmbH: Up to now it may have been sufficient for a sensor manufacturer to provide systems with digital outputs, a 0V to +10V analog voltage output, and a 4mA to 20mA analog current output. In the foreseeable future, however,...

2019-03-21
Balluff at Hanover Exhibition 2019

Balluff at Hanover Exhibition 2019

Balluff: The products and applications exhibited at the Hanover Exhibition 2019 (Hall 9, Booth F53) will make Balluff's focus clear: the concrete benefits of Industry 4.0 solutions based on IO-Link, industrial network technology, machine vision,...

2019-03-04
Baumer wins the inspect award 2019 with its CX.I cameras

Baumer wins the inspect award 2019 with its ...

Baumer: The Baumer CX.I cameras with their outstanding performance convinced the expert panel and participants of the online poll on the inspect award 2019 and were awarded 1st prize in the Vision category. The prize that is annually awarded by Wiley-VCH...

2019-02-06
Detection of Transparent Edges

Detection of Transparent Edges

Sensor Instruments GmbH: Conventional detectors particularly reach their limits when they have to detect and count stacked transparent objects such as plastic drinking cups of plastic caps. Especially in the process of packaging, however, it is of...

2019-01-31
Cost-effective infrared camera with microscope optics

Cost-effective infrared camera with microscope

Optris GmbH: In time for the electronica 2018 trade fair, Optris was introducing an additional infrared camera in their new Compact Line onto the market. The optris Xi 400 camera has been equipped with a microscope optics as well as a tripod...

2019-01-04
IR camera with rugged accessory for glass industry

IR camera with rugged accessory for glass ...

Optris GmbH: In 2014 and 2016, Optris brought two special infrared cameras for the glass industry – the PI 450 G7 and the PI 640 G7 – to the market. In order to meet the industry-specific requirements, an innovative laminar air purge...

2019-01-02
Bird's eye view for VeriSens vision sensors and ColorFEX in compact devices

Bird's eye view for VeriSens vision sensors ...

Baumer ihas expanded its XF series of VeriSens vision sensors with models using the multiple award-winning ColorFEX technology, which for the first time simplifies color checks in a compact design with integrated lens and lighting. In addition,...

2018-12-14
Clear Strategy or Plain Guessing?

Clear Strategy or Plain Guessing?

Sensor Instruments GmbH: In the last years the spray nozzles at windscreens have seen quite some development. The jet now comes as a fan jet or spot jet. A homogeneous spray mist application onto the intended angle range is now accurately...

2018-12-12
A Hazy Problem?

A Hazy Problem?

Sensor Instruments GmbH: At first everything seemed to be quite clear, just another measurement task that we surely would manage without any problems with one of our GLOSS series sensors. According to the descriptions provided by the customer it...

2018-12-10
Perfect Copy Counting

Perfect Copy Counting

Sensor Instruments GmbH: When cartons, magazines, or single sheets are packed, it must be ensured that each package has the correct number of items. In most cases such material is transported in shingled form before, as with magazines, newspapers...

2018-12-07
LX series 10 GigE cameras with liquid lens support and new functions

LX series 10 GigE cameras with liquid lens ...

Baumer: LX series cameras with 10 GigE enable the control of autofocus liquid lenses for instant and flexible focusing at varying working distances or object heights. Combined with advanced features like shading correction and IEEE 1588 capability, they...

2018-11-30
Specially designed housing accessories for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries

Specially designed housing accessories for ...

Baumer: With the specially developed IP 65/67 and IP 69K housing accessories, Baumer CX.I cameras can now be used to cover applications in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, which set high standards regarding cleaning media or surface...

2018-11-29

ams and Qualcomm Technologies to focus ...

ams Sensors Germany GmbH: ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high- performance sensor solutions, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, jointly announced the intent to focus engineering efforts towards a 3D depth...

2018-11-27
High-speed image processing with 8 GB internal image memory

High-speed image processing with 8 GB ...

Baumer: The Baumer QX series 10 GigE cameras feature 8 GB internal image memory and extended functionalities. Process monitoring applications benefit from inspection times increased by a factor of 4 as well as flexible usage of the memory. The new function...

2018-11-19
Accurate High-Speed Counting of Stacked Plastic Caps

Accurate High-Speed Counting of Stacked Plastic

Sensor Instruments GmbH: Especially the counting of transparent, stacked plastic caps, as they for example frequently are used in the packing industry, usually is a highly problematic application because on the one hand the edges of individual...

2018-11-15

Miniature, high-resolution CMOS image sensors

ams Sensors Germany GmbH: ams announced the introduction of the latest products in its awardwinning NanEye family, building on the success of the industry’s original miniature image sensor module for endoscopes, the NanEye 2D. The NanEyeM...

2018-11-12
The new generation of vision sensors

The new generation of vision sensors

SensoPart: The well-known VISOR® series from sensor manufacturer SensoPart has had a makeover: with their slender metal housing, improved lighting and new added functions, such as a target laser and motorised focus, the proven vision sensors...

2018-11-08

Embedded vision comes to space-constrained ...

ams Sensors Germany GmbH: ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, announced the pre-release of the NanEyeM, a miniature integrated Micro Camera Module (MCM) assembly with a tiny footprint at the image sensor end of...

2018-11-07

Image sensor for machine vision sets new ...

ams Sensors Germany GmbH: New CSG14k image sensor from ams provides 12-bit output in 14Mpixel resolution for use in high-throughput manufacturing and optical inspection applications. ams (SIX: AMS), a leading worldwide supplier of high performance...

2018-11-06
Nothing remains hidden anymore: Detect defects in glass, carbon fiber fabrics and reflective surfaces using CX polarization cameras

Nothing remains hidden anymore: Detect ...

Baumer: The new CMOS-based CX series polarization cameras with GigE and USB 3.0 by Baumer, uses the polarization properties of light and thus allows a wide range of new industrial image processing applications, e.g. for quality control in glass...

2018-10-12
Achieve more with less: New GigE cameras with integrated JPEG image compression save bandwidth, CPU load and storage space

Achieve more with less: New GigE cameras ...

Baumer is enhancing the LX series with 2, 4 and 25 megapixel cameras with integrated JPEG image compression and frame rates of up to 140 fps. With the GigE cameras, you can save all down the line: from bandwidth through CPU load to storage space...

2018-09-20
Industrial cameras with fast interfaces

Industrial cameras with fast interfaces

Balluff: The 16 new compact industrial cameras (BVS CA) in the Smart Vision Solutions line from Balluff give you great flexibility in image recording and high transmission speed of image information for mastering even highly complex inspection...

2018-08-23
Compact IR thermometer with technical improvements

Compact IR thermometer with technical ...

Optris GmbH: The compact infrared thermometers of the optris® CSmicro line have been technically improved and now have even wider applications. “The CSmicro is one of our best-sellers, proven especially in the OEM area many times. Our...

2018-07-04
High-resolution, high-speed CMOS image sensor for machine vision systems goes into mass production

High-resolution, high-speed CMOS image sensor ..

ams Sensors Germany GmbH: ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, today announced its CMV50000, a high-speed 48Mpixel global shutter CMOS image sensor for demanding machine vision applications, has gone into mass...

2018-06-12
The new LX series 10 GigE cameras with Sony Pregius sensors capture the finest detail in dynamic applications

The new LX series 10 GigE cameras with Sony ...

Baumer: With the expansion of the LX series by eight new models, Baumer combines the latest Sony Pregius sensors with the innovative, cost-effective 10 GigE interface. The global shutter LXT cameras with 3, 5, 9 and 12 megapixel resolution stand...

2018-06-05
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