Productive manufacturing processes have to be flexible. Batch sizes are getting smaller, cycles faster and quality requirements ever more stringent. Conventional inspection techniques are at their limits here. Not the case with industrial image processing. Thanks to its enormous potential, it is becoming a standard discipline in automation engineering – especially since intelligent vision systems have made them easier to use.

A broad spectrum is available for all fields of application – from code reading systems for 1D/2D codes, vision sensors for application-specific machine vision, intelligent cameras for universal applications through to PC-based machine vision systems for extremely fast applications using several cameras.

Highlights

• Enhanced productivity and quality
• Reliable, automatic visual inspection saves time and costs
• Automatic identification, tracking and monitoring of parts
• Optimizes material flow
• Reduces machine downtimes
• Suitable for high-speed processes
• Simple and quick operation
• Flexible due to communication options: Serial, via PROFIBUS, Ethernet/PROFINET
• Seamless integration with other SIMATIC products reduces engineering costs