News, Updates & Application Insight
Product updates, application notes and the odd bit of Industry 4.0 opinion — from the engineers who build the systems.
Cognex Dataman protective housings
Protective enclosure specialists AutoVimation have an extensive range of housings to suit almost every Cognex product, including the Dataman series. The compact Dataman200 housing offers IP67 protection in a package l…
A keen eye for laboratory applications: Intelligent OEM board camera with 16 bit colour depth
Vision Components has developed an intelligent board camera for detecting very delicate structures in x-ray images. Thanks to a 16 bit color depth, the camera can distinguish between 65,536 shades of grey, while stand…
Tunnel to Dome
The new vicolux® tunnel light from Vision & Control is the cost-saving and flexible solution for switching to dome or cloudy day illumination in next-to-no-time. Two simple accessories are all it takes.
New Tunnel Lights
The new tunnel light from Vision & Control offers advantages primarily for users needing to carry out in-process inspections of their products while they are moving at high speed and with only limited space.
New sensors for intelligent VC cameras: top resolution and frame rates for high speed applications
In its VC Base+ and VC Board Cam lines, image processing expert Vision Components now also employs new 2.2 and 4.2 megapixel sensors from CMOSIS. These sensors provide both high resolution and high frame rates, are ve…
Telecentric lenses for everything involving colour
Colour inspections and inspections in the infrared range require lenses of a particularly high quality. This is because color fringing with distorted colours and blurred images reduces the accuracy and speed of an opt…
Extra smart with two remote heads: VC nano cube dual for stereo applications
Fisher Smith presents the VC nano cube dual, an intelligent stereo camera based on the proven Vision Components nano range. Featuring two sensor heads that measure merely 22 x 22 x 22.5 mm, the new camera is especiall…
Pick & place jobs implemented with pictor®
The intelligent cameras in the new pictor® T-series are designed for flexible use as an industrial machine vision system and are easy to implement. The pictor® communicates with the machine's control unit in real time…
Underwater Camera enclosures
Nautilus series of protective enclosures for cameras
European project nears completion
The European Smart Dress project (website) to produce a proof of concept automated resistance spot welding tip dressing sytem for the automotive industry is nearing completion. Fisher Smith will now meet with European…
New bar lights for line-scan camera applications
Vision & Control is expanding its vicolux® product family to include diffuse bar lights in the LDLF30 and LDLF60 series, which can be used for industrial applications including determining the position of chocolates o…
3 new Ringlights nest for maximum flexibility
Vision & Control presents three new coaxial ring lighting series RK2036, RK3652 and RK5268, which can all be combined. The diameters of the ring lights are compatible, allowing the three different sizes in the series…