DALSA BOA Vision System

    * Sensor
    * Light Control
    * Processing engine
    * Inputs and Outputs
    * Factory communications
    * Developer and Operator application interfaces
    * Protective enclosure

Easy to use and inexpensive, DALSA’s new BOA leverages the full breadth and depth of DALSA’s design, engineering, and manufacturing expertise including sensor, camera, image-processing and vision software development to deliver the next generation in smart camera technology. BOA offers scalable vision solutions to satisfy a wide range of application needs from positioning robotic handlers to complete assembly verifications. Designed and ruggedized for harsh environment factory floor deployment, BOA is a truly exceptional all-in-one intelligent vision system.

DALSA IPD Vision appliances

DALSA's Vision Appliances are multi camera embedded machine vision solutions that have been designed to satisfy your current and future inspection needs. They provide the ease-of-use, performance and flexibility required to meet the diverse requirements of industrial applications, while accommodating the needs and experience of end users.

All Vision Appliances, provide a powerful and quick-to-deploy solution for automated quality inspection. Available with standard (iNspect) or advanced (Sherlock) application software, these product have been carefully designed to address the needs of a wide range of industries such as Automotive, Consumer, Electronics, Packaging, Pharamceutical and more.

NEW ! DALSA GEVA Vision Appliance

GEVA is a high-performance industrial controller that offers excellent cost savings for multi-camera vision applications, such as final inspection of large assemblies. As the name implies, GEVA provides expandable Gigabit Ethernet camera interfaces that significantly drive down system cost.

At the heart of GEVA is a powerful dual core processor, equipped with high-speed memory resources to tackle the most demanding applications. Two dedicated camera ports are provided, each with enough bandwidth to easily support eight 640x480 mono cameras imaging parts at 60 per second. The camera ports are compatible with a wide range of mono or color, area and line scan GigE cameras in a range of resolutions.

Aside from camera interfacing, GEVA provides a number of external interfaces for system integration. It includes dedicated display and USB ports for setup and runtime control, a third Gigabit Ethernet port and a serial port for factory communication, dedicated trigger inputs for inspection timing, dedicated strobe outputs for lighting control and optoisolated I/O for associated equipment interfacing.

Vision solutions on GEVA are setup using DALSA's iNspect or Sherlock application software. For performance migration, applications built on other DALSA equipment with the same camera setup will also run on GEVA.

Available with standard (iNspect) or advanced (Sherlock) application software, our Vision Appliance products have been carefully designed to address the needs of a wide range of industries such as Automotive, Consumer, Electronics, Packaging, Pharamceutical and more.

The standard iNspect software provides capabilities for positioning, identification, verification, measuring and flaw detection. Included with iNspect is iLabel, an application designed specifically for the packaging industry that is used for verifying the placement and quality of labels on packaged goods.

Vision Appliances are an ideal product solution for both end-users and integrators of machine vision.

DALSA iNspect and Sherlock software

iNspect

Convenience and ease of use, ideal for 1st-time vision users

iNspect is a breakthrough machine vision inspection tool designed for a broad range of applications, from precision metrology to pharmaceutical packaging. Wrapped within an easy user interface, iNspect provides a suite of tools that can be readily applied to a multitude of inspection tasks, such as positioning, measuring, identification, verification and flaw detection.

iNspect's straightforward 5-step setup allows users to quickly configure and deploy an application. Each of the inspection tools have been carefully designed to extract the relevant information from the object image. No programming or extensive training is required!

Included with the iNspect software is iLabel, an application designed specifically for the packaging industry that is used to verify the placement and quality of labels on packaged goods.

Typical Applications: 

    * Detect missing or incorrect components in a package or assembly
    * Track or verify products - barcode, 2D matrix, printed text
    * Verify label position, fill level, cap and safety seal on bottles
    * Align PCBs - locate and report position of fudicials
    * Locate and count objects or features
    * Verify adhesive bead integrity & uniformity
    * Detect short shots in plastic molded parts
    * Detect presence and integrity of pills in a blister pack

Sherlock

 Power and flexibility for experienced vision integrators

Sherlock is an advanced machine vision software interface that can be applied to a wide variety of automated inspection applications. It offers maximum design flexibility and provides a rich suite of proven tools and capabilities that have been deployed in thousands of installations worldwide. With a keen eye for detail, our inspector will help you:

    * Improve customer satisfaction by detecting defects early in the manufacturing cycle
    * Increase productivity through automated 24/7 operation
    * Reduce production costs by improving yield and redeploying skilled inspectors to other priority tasks

Sherlock has proven tools ready for any challenge:
    * Automotive
    * Electronics
    * General Manufacturing
    * Pharmaceutical
    * Plastics
    * Semiconductor

DALSA Sapera™ Vision Software

Sapera™ Nitrous

    Sapera™ Architect Plus

Norpix Troublepix

TroublePix is a digital video recording software designed for factory floor applications or requirements needing a simple user interface. With TroublePix, you can acquire, view and review all within the same user interface. TroublePix provides features such as looping, prepost triggering, event marking and much more. Compatible with GigE, FirewireB, Analog and CameraLink high speed cameras from various manufacturers.

    * TroublePix is ideal for factory floor, laboratory or outdoor applications requiring an easy to use GUI.
    * Now compatible with Windows XP/Vista 64-bit.
    * Using TroublePix, you can acquire, view and review all sequences at the same time.
    * Designed for non technical operators.
    * Supports all standard cameras available in StreamPix.
    * Compatible with gige, usb2, analog, camera link or firewire interface.
    * Loop recording.
    * Motion detection module. Detect motion or change in an image to generate an event in StreamPix.
    * Time shifting: acquire and time shift a sequence to review simultaneously. The time shifting is user selectable.
    * Pre/post triggering using pulse generator, with automatic rearm feature.
    * Multiple event marker: mark a specific frame upon receipt of trigger.
    * Thumbnail view mode for captured sequences.
    * Full screen mode, specially designed for use with touchscreen displays.
    * Solutions available for high speed from 60 to 1000 fps at VGA and high resolution.    *  Provides quick access to exposed camera/grabber features.
    * Select a range within a sequence for playback, saving or exporting.
    * Lossy JPEG and Lossless JPEG video compression available using RLE, Huffman and LZ algorithms.
    * Can export as either uncompressed or encoded AVI (CineForm HD encoder available).
    * Save the current frame to disk or copy it to clipboard for later use in another application. Image formats supported: BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF.
    * Provides a quick save/export method by auto-generating file names based on a user defined filenaming scheme.
    * Before a recording starts, TroublePix automatically detects the maximum sequence length in time or number of frames, relative to the available disk space or RAM on the computer.
    * Allows to record and hold multiple sequences in memory, depending on the available amount of physical memory. When used with Auto-Rearm feature, the current sequence is automatically saved on disk before re-arming the system.
    * Focuses on recording images only around a Pre/Post trigger event. Can optionally locate the Pre/Post event using a marker after loading a sequence.
    * Ability to preview and print the current frame.
    * TroublePix can manage up to 5 pre-recorded sequences while recording or reviewing another one.
    * Controls the playback at fixed or variable speed either forwards or backwards.
    * Lets you quickly isolate a specific section within a sequence and find exactly the frame you want.
    * Provides quick access to previously recorded sequences.
    * Multiple image display modes with zoom capability.
    * Absolute or relative timestamp displayed as image overlay with the option to permanently "burn" it on the image.
    * Built-in disk/memory benchmark that allows the users to test their PC capability for record and playback.
    * Built-in activity log system.
    * Wireless triggering.

Matrix Vision just launched the new smart camera mvBlueLYNX-X. More details here.

The mvBlueLYNX-X is the next generation of the successful MATRIX VISION intelligent camera product line. The CPU core is based on the state-of-the-art ARM technology with up to 1 GHz target clock and image processing acceleration by DSP coprocessor for parallel handling of multiple pixel and float data. The system is ideally suited for the classical areas of machine vision, the large processing power and high-end display and graphics capability make it perfect for many other application areas.

Modular image sensor interface
Dual core: Cortex-A8 ARM CPU up to 1 GHz plus separate real-time DSP with video interface
256 RAM + Dual microSD card memory interface
Wide range of interfaces
.NET compliant Mono software interace
green automation: high-performance with low power consumption

From VGA 640 x 480 to 5MPixels resolution in color and BW