EVT announces the new sensor series ES800Check which solves optical testing tasks. Thanks to a multiplicity of resolutions the systems of the ES800Check series detect even fine pattern which cannot be detected by multiple light barriers.
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The released EyeVision version 2.5 UR will be published on 1st June 2010. Therewith EVT launches one software platform for all hardware platforms - ranging from vision sensors and smart cameras to PC platforms with standard access (GigE, USB, Firewire, Camera Link).
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The integrator Innovative Automation was contracted by one of their long-standing customers, a manufacturer in electromechanical actuators and emission control devices, to design and build an assembly line to produce a new actuator. This unit is a critical engine component; therefore, the client required traceability of the assembly process operations as well as the final testing operations.
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Test runs of the standard machine vision software Halcon Embedded on the mobile phone Nokia N900 have shown an outstanding performance. The tests also have proven that applications based on Halcon can successfully be built for the Nokia N900. First, the application can be developed with Halcon on a PC. After this, the exported code is compiled for the Nokia N900 to run the application on this mobile platform.
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Cognex Corporation announces 3D-Locate, a library of 3D vision software tools that expands application possibilities in vision-guided robotics, assembly, and inspection.
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The German companies MVTec Software and Sick have released a new interface for the Sick 3D cameras, This allows the smooth integration with MVTec's machine vision software Halcon.
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At the Vision show end of 2007, INSPECT hosted a panel discussion on the topic "All you ever wanted to know about Machine Vision software". One of the panelists, Cognex co-founder and Senior VP Bill Silver focused in his closing remark on motion and time resolution as the next most important development in machine vision software. INSPECT recently visited Bill at Cognex headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts and found out what this is all about and how it is connected to Cognex's vision sensor product Checker.
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Glass is elegant, and glass packaged products stand out. With many unique shapes, glass containers give the product identity and character. And glass is fully recyclable: an old and used glass bottle can be remade into a new, clean glass bottle. When glass is made it is heated to around 1,600 °C, thus killing off any bacteria. Glass is a truly environmentally friendly material und this is why its triumph as packaging material, especially for food and beverages, is continuing as strong as ever.
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