AUT integrates Opto Engineering® ITALA® cameras and optics on its robots for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and Evaluation of critical infrastructures in the Oil and Gas, Aerospace and Nuclear industries.
AML designed a vision system featuring a rotary glass table where cylindrical metal components are measured and inspected at the maximum speed of 30.000 pieces per hour. The parts feature diameter and height dimensions between 3 mm and 50 mm.
The automotive industry is arguably the most traditionally associated with machine vision, with a wide range of possible applications. Today, electronics has penetrated virtually every field, and automotive is no exception: in this application case, ITALA® cameras from Opto Engineering® are used for quality control of courtesy light projector modules.
Injector nozzles are widely used in the automotive industry and are subjects to different types of inspection, as they undergo both measurement and surface checks. In addition, data matrix reading is often performed for traceability purposes. For these reasons, a double type of inspection with a different set of hardware is usually required: a backlight configuration for measurement and a front-light configuration for surface inspection and data matrix reading.
DGSORT is a 100% belt sorting system designed to inspect the size and shape of objects including screws, pins and bolts up to 120 mm in length. The system has sub-centesimal precision and reaches rates of up to 700 pieces per minute.
In the pharmaceutical industry, a full inspection of vial caps is always necessary to perform OCR or data matrix reading for traceability purposes. When large samples or different sizes are involved, multi-camera systems are the preferred solution, but they are complex and bulky.
Opto Engineering offers an innovative solution to overcome these limitations and get the best out of your vision system.
For many demanding life science applications telecentric lenses by Opto Engineering are the perfect solution thanks to excellent optical resolution, high telecentricity and low distortion. Long working distances are also available to fit any required hardware.
The customer was asked by a pharmaceutical company to develop an inline vision system to verify labels on small plastic bottles at a rate of 60 ppm. The inspection required performing OCR to read the reference code, control or lot number on the label for Track and Trace purposes. Moreover, they had to verify that the label was applied correctly on the bottle: specifically the “double-label” issue was checked, that is when two labels were incorrectly applied to the bottle.
Torus decided to design a new measurement machine for plastic bottles and preforms up to 200 mm in diameters. The systems performs accurate measurement of neck dimensions, body diameter, thread measurement, perpendicularity, wall and base thickness. The final solution integrates two identical telecentric CORE lens and lights mounted on two motorized slides: each optical system performs accurate measurements on a 47,4 mm x 37,9 mm field of view with a resolution up to 18,522 microns per pixel.
The customer was asked to develop a unique setup both inline and offline for: dimensional control of the products onboard with a user interface, positioning of the cuttings online, automatic dimensional control of the pieces offline.
A high measurement accuracy, less than 0,1 mm, was required. Moreover, there were strict space constraints inside the machine, thus a compact solution was needed.
Our customer, Trilobit, was requested to work on a system for inspection of food cans. In this article we’ll describe the application, discussing the results from our feasibility study and how the chosen components successfully brought to a solution.
The application goal is to detect surface defects of engine rings of different sizes (over 1500 parts), especially defects such as small cracks or voids as small as 200 μm located anywhere on the inner diameter. The rings range from 25 mm to 76 mm in diameter and 4 mm to 20 mm in height.
The application goal is to identify defects on transparent plastic caps presenting residual dirt from the cap production, which can be present both internally and externally, not compatible with the cap final use (IV bags).
By measuring the deformation of the expected pattern, it is easy to obtain a 3D map of the blister pack and to check the volume of each cavity to identify absences or defects.
The coupling of a compact telecentric lens with a high-uniformity backlight illuminator generates a highly contrasted silhouette of large bottles. The images are then processed with a dedicated metrology software.
Syringes are inspected at a full 360° to check for possible incorrect cap placements or bent needles. TC CAGE lenses allow to obtain four orthonormal views in a single image that is then processed by a dedicated vision software.