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applications where images are taken
simultaneously.
Today it is also necessary for
complex inspection systems to be
easy to configure and modify –
because efficiency and performance
play a major role in production and
hence in quality assurance, too. At
the same time, it is important to
define the options for intervention –
i.e. the permissions – that individual
employees are given. Previously, it
was often difficult to set up multi-
view inspections from scratch, make
changes, or reconfigure the whole
system. And as far as user interfaces
(HMIs) were concerned, the current
solutions do not offer any mobile
intervention options and are limited
in presenting different operator
views based on user-access levels.
Joerg Kuechen, Cognex Vice
President and Business Unit
Manager, Vision Products, sums
it up neatly: “As our customers
expand their use of machine vision
into new areas, they are looking for
ways to make standalone cameras
work together to solve applications
requiring multi-view inspections.
The In-Sight VC200 now offers this
functionality based on the In-Sight
platform.”
A solution like this has
never existed before
To perform Cognex multi-view
inspections in a manufacturing
environment, the user can connect
up to four In-Sight smart cameras to
the In-Sight VC200 vision controller
via four gigabit Ethernet ports.
Now, for the first time, it is possible
to utilize the processing power of
multiple smart cameras in parallel
for high-performance applications.
The In-Sight VC200 multi smart
Figure 2.
Platform-independent HMI technology allows for monitoring and
controlling the application using a web-browser without needing to install special
hardware or software.
Figure 1.
Up to four Cognex smart cameras can be connected to the In-Sight
VC200 multi- smart vision system controller. Overall system performance increases
with each camera.
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