Industrial cameras

The industrial camera is a visual sensor and it is part of the technology we call the Machine Vision System (MVS). In the background of MVS is also software and hardware for image processing.

These three parts make the visual system as one compact unit.

The camera together with software tools for visual inspection of products (focus, shape matching, measuring tools, tools for reading characters and codes, logic functions, bar code verification) supports various industrial protocols (PROFINET, Modbus TCP, EtherNet/IP…) and has own input/output module. Therefore, the camera enables visual inspection as a stand-alone unit. So this type of camera is considered as a smart device.

Very often the camera alone is not enough, but it is easily to integrate it into the existing control system. As part of the control system, the camera decides whether a product has been inspected and whether it will be used in further production, thus affecting the operation of the machine, production line or the entire production process.