Vision Systems

Quality Control at High Speed

The need to accommodate faster production rates, identify finer defects, and inspect complex objects or assemblies from multiple points of view is pushing the limits of today's machine vision systems. SIMATIC Visionscape line is uniquely situated to address high speed applications requiring multiple cameras or extensive vision processing.

Whether you need to deliver a stand alone system or one integrated into a machine controller, the ability to embed one or more SIMATIC Visionscape boards into an industrial computer allows the flexibility and extensibility you're looking for.

Highlights

Scalable line of high-performance vision processors and cost-effective frame grabber boards

Support variety of analog or digital cameras and special camera features including high resolution, partial scan, line scan, etc.

Address complex multi-camera applications by connecting several cameras per board and/or adding multiple boards in a single PC

On-board dedicated digital I/O for fast image acquisition triggering, strobe control and general purpose I/O

Powerful software environment ships with all Visionscape boards for fast machine vision application development & deployment

Graphical user interface (GUI) on host PC allows simple setup and monitoring of applications without any conventional programming

A common software enables use of an application on all boards and on the intelligent SIMATIC HawkEye 1600T camera which reduces the investment in training and application development.

Frame grabbers SIMATIC Visionscape 0xx0

The Visionscape Frame grabbers capture the images originating from different cameras and forward them into the memory or to another computer for further processing.

Vision processors SIMATIC Visionscape 4xx0

The Visionscape 4000 series vision processors are complete high-performance vision systems in a single PCI slot. These boards feature an on-board CPU, vision acceleration ASIC, memory, and display. Therefore, they completely off-load all vision processing operations from the host PC CPU. These boards also feature on-board dedicated digital I/O and support a variety of machine vision cameras through interchangeable plug-in camera interface daughter cards. An on-board realtime multitasking operating system assures deterministic operation. System configurations can be scaled up without affecting performance or footprint by simply adding more processor boards in the same PCI backplane.