Machine vision systems suits complex tasks
Siemens Automation and Drives is adding the Simatic Hawkeye 1600T camera and the Visionscape 0800 Cameralink frame grabber to its product range for industrial image processing.
The new version 3.7 of the Simatic Visionscape image processing software offers expanded functions for image analysis and processing. Users can solve high-speed, high-complexity tasks with the Visionscape family and just one image processing software package.
The Hawkeye 1600T camera is sealed to IP67, has M12 connections and processes up to 3600 images per minute. Different lighting components can be connected directly to the camera and triggered to provide sufficient lighting for the objects being inspected.
The camera has multiple interfaces such as Ethernet and RS232, and eight digital, freely configurable I/O. There are versions of the camera with XGA and VGA resolution, each with and without the Intellifind function. The camera is configured using a PC and the Visionscape software, and it also supports the Visionscape tools such as Intellifind, OCR and OCV.
The Visionscape 0800 digital Cameralink frame grabber is suitable for high-speed and high-resolution applications. It can also be used for linescan applications such as checking labels on cylindrical objects. Supplementing the new range are two monochrome, progressive-scan, analogue cameras, with VGA resolution for up to 90 frames per seconds and SXGA resolution for up to 16 fps.
Version 3.7 of the Visionscape software includes new functions, such as Multi-View for simultaneous viewing of several camera pictures. The software is suitable both for the analogue 0300 and 0740 frame grabbers as well as the new digital 0800 frame grabber and the new Hawkeye-1600T camera. A program created for the camera or a PC-based Visionscape system will run without modification or recompiling on any system in the Visionscape family.
Simatic Hawkeye 1600T camera and the Visionscape 0800 Cameralink frame grabber
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