What is Machine Vision?
Machine vision is a key technology to improve product quality and to optimize the production yield, cost, and throughput. Vision solutions give machines the ability to ‘see’ and take actions to support or replace manual inspections tasks with the use of digital cameras and image processing. The technology is used in a wide range of industries and applications to automate the production process.
Vision solutions are ideal for automated inspection and measurement tasks. SICK’s 2D and 3D vision cameras can be used to solve a wide range of applications where there is a need to measure, locate, inspect and identify. Our vision products are built for industrial environments, carefully designed to leverage SICK's 60-plus years of experience with industrial sensors.
APPLICATION EXAMPLES
Dimension measurement
Machine vision can be used to check quality and dimension
Assembly check
Machine vision instantly identifies incorrectly assembled products, and helps identifying which part of the production line needs checking. No time-consuming trouble-shooting.
Quality assurance
Consistency in product quality is important. With machine vision, you can instantly check everything from assembly to micro-cracks in products.
Positioning
Machine Vision can be used to check the position, orientation and location to ensure that it is correctly placed.
Select the best technology for your vision application
2D/ 3D VISION
Solving applications in 2D or 3D There are often many possible ways to solve a specific vision task. In some cases, the choice of either 2D or 3D vision is obvious, but in other cases both technologies could work but each provide certain benefits. It is important to understand these benefits and how this applies to a given application in order to provide a reliable machine vision solution
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
2D Machine Vision
2D is ideal for applications where objects and features can be distinguished by different colors or contrast. It is also perfect for verification of textures, patterns, and codes. 2D vision sensors from SICK are easily configurable to solve a wide range of applications. With added flexibility, solving the most challenging task is easy with functionality that can be extended by programming.
Example of the chocolate box above, 2D is best approach for inspecting box print.
3D Machine Vision
With the third dimension in 3D vision, it adds information about objects’ volume, height, pose, and actual shape. It can also be used to distinguish items of the same color or pattern, thus enabling more reliable solutions. The 3D vision portfolio from SICK covers the full range from powerful high-speed 3D cameras to easily configurable stand-alone 3D vision sensors.
Example of the chocolate box above, 3D vision is employed to precisely measure the stack height of chocolates within a box.
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