As a specialist in PC-based control technology, Beckhoff is constantly looking at ways to integrate all machine functionalities into a single control platform. This also includes image processing – introduced on the software side with the launch of TwinCAT Vision in 2017, and now completed with the introduction of the comprehensive Vision hardware portfolio.
The Beckhoff Vision hardware portfolio complements already available TwinCAT Vision software.
Beckhoff Vision offers machine builders and end users an image processing system that covers all the required components from software to lighting. Seamlessly integrated into EtherCAT-based control technology, it opens up competitive advantages for users, including highly accurate synchronisation with all machine processes, reduced engineering and hardware costs, and simplified commissioning and support.
In addition to the TwinCAT Vision software, the Vision portfolio now also includes:
- Cameras – the area-scan cameras generate high quality image data using colour and monochrome CMOS sensors with up to 24-megapixel resolution and 3.45 μm and 2.74 μm pixel pitch, plus transfer rates of 2.5 Gbit/s
- Lenses – the robust, industrial C-mount lenses provide for easy handling and high availability, with a VIS and NIR AR coating, up to 2 μm resolution, and image circles of 11 mm and 19.3 mm respectively
- Lighting – the multicolour LED lighting in three designs – area, ring, and bar lighting – produces constant lighting conditions for consistently high quality images. It also creates optimum contrast between the inspection feature and its surroundings, even in spectrally adjustable pulse mode.
Complete units consisting of camera, lighting devices, and focusable lenses are also available.
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