Industrial image processing with AI

The Zivid Two L100 industrial 3D camera enables more productive bin picking with deeper reach, enabling extended grippers to empty larger, deeper bins.

Many manufacturing companies still find it difficult to get started with Artificial Intelligence (AI), not least because of the complex hardware selection. In the new AI workstation, Robotron and Kontron now combine two of their innovative solution approaches for the uncomplicated and fast application of computer vision. The multi-purpose AI workstation enables training, execution and inference of algorithms for a wide range of models and frameworks. The standardized approach covers up to 90...

Visevi Robotics offers novel vision-based encoders ViseJoint now for generic angular measurement applications without sensors on the joint. Measurement of one or multiple joints is performed remotely, using a computer vision software and a camera that looks onto the joints from a distance. The solution can be used for smart robots.

Future Technology used in Everyday Work. CAD models as holograms. Modifiable and collaboratively editable. Augmented Reality (AR) is expected to revolutionize workflows in factory planning. At BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, the use of AR already shows great potential.

Spectra PowerBox 5000: Scalable high-end GPU computing system.

Modern processes in industrial AI and machine vision are closely linked to image processing. This requires industrial PC systems with CPU and GPU performance large enough to process the tasks in real time.

Spectra PowerBox 3000C – Mini‑PC with Coffee Lake Power.

High com­put­ing power, ex­ten­sive ex­pan­sion op­tions as well as the com­pact de­sign have made the mini PCs of the Spec­tra Power­Box 3000 se­ries a real 19-inch al­ter­na­tive since the first gen­er­a­tion. Due to these char­ac­ter­is­tics, they are rec­om­mended, for ex­am­ple, for use in ma­chine and sys­tem con­trol.

Spectra-Panel Z-Series meets requirements of the food, pharmaceutical and medical industries.

Hygiene requirements are particularly high in the food, pharmaceutical and medical industries. Since the spread of particles, germs and other contaminants must be prevented at all costs, materials are used in the production process whose contamination potential is as low as possible.

Ma­chin­ery and plants as well as pro­duc­tion processes gen­er­ate a con­tin­ual flow of data. Com­pa­nies that are able to gen­er­ate added value from this data will be able to enjoy suc­cess in the fu­ture. How­ever, the large amount of gen­er­ated data must be eas­ily ac­ces­si­ble to the ma­chine op­er­a­tor via a HMI (Human Ma­chine In­ter­face). With the u-cre­ate PRO­CON-WEB SCADA soft­ware tool and PRO­CON-WEB Em­bed­ded Sys­tem, Weidmüller pro­vides vi­su­al­i­sa­tion so­lu­tions with...

With the Mustang-T100-T5 ICP Germany expands its portfolio of AI accelerator cards and brings another possibility to extend existing systems with AI functionalities.

Powerful, freely programmable smart cameras with NVIDIA Jetson modules. Baumer presents the AX smart cameras, its first industrial-grade smart cameras that combine the market-leading NVIDIA Jetson modules with powerful Sony CMOS sensors to create a compact, flexible, and freely programmable image processing platform for AI‑applications.

At the edge, the use of GPU-based sys­tems for AI com­put­ing is usu­ally not prac­ti­cal due to the phys­i­cal size of the in­fer­ence sys­tem, the high-power con­sump­tion and the un­favourable price-per­for­mance ratio. The Mus­tang AI ac­cel­er­a­tor card se­ries from ICP Ger­many of­fers new so­lu­tions for edge com­put­ing in the field of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence of Things (AIoT).

Compact 29×29 mm industrial cameras with Sony Pregius S sensors up to 24 MP. Baumer is expanding its CX series with the 4th Sony CMOS sensor generation Pregius S with up to 24 megapixel resolution. Thanks to a pixel size of mere 2.74 µm and backside illumination pixel architecture, the camera has a very compact design (29 × 29 mm) and offers very high resolutions with excellent image quality and improved sensitivity for stable image evaluations.

Spectra PowerBox 5000: Scalable high-end GPU computing system. Modern processes in industrial AI and machine vision are closely linked to image processing. This requires industrial PC systems with CPU and GPU performance large enough to process the tasks in real time.

Wearables from ProGlove make humans a driving force of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. The Digital Twin is a digitized model that maps the physical characteristics of a production environment as well as the processes. But this mapping has its limitations, as it only includes data from machines and not from humans. At the same time, human employees will continue to play an important role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. The challenge lies in combining the...

Hamamatsu Photonics provides InGaAs solutions covering the visible (VIS), near infrared (NIR), and short wavelength infrared (SWIR) regions. Our solutions fulfill different applications including spectrometers for spectrometry, scientific cameras for microscopy, and machine vision for industrial imaging. Also, we provide driver modules and evaluation boards to decrease your design time. Customizations are available for specific applications and requirements.

Touchless and thus hygienic operation of machines and measuring equipment to ensure social distance as well as the control of autonomous robots requires powerful sensors. The 3D ToF sensor from Hamamatsu measures the distance to an object using the indirect ToF method (Time of Flight).

The ProGlove smart glove scanner has been in use for a number of years at TTI Europe, based in Maisach near Munich. Since deploying the ProGlove barcode scanners, the electronics distributor has unlocked multiple productivity efficiencies through its ergonomic handling, reliability and robust industrial design. Overall, the time saved due to the introduction of streamlined barcode scanning exceeds ten hours per day.

Automation processes in the industrial sector are becoming faster, more efficient, and more intelligent with the development of new technologies. But the things which add value to companies in this industry often present challenges for the internal employees who need to oversee, monitor, manage, develop, or repair these automated and fully optimized processes. With Augmented Reality (AR), workers can be effectively supported along the entire value chain to ensure the best possible human-machine...

Industry 4.0 – the smart, adaptive factory with short retooling times and decentralized control – aims to generate the most comprehensive data possible within a highly automated process in real-time and provide the most varied instances possible. This status information in the form of process data for control and monitoring of sequences and product data for traceability and quality verification form an objective basis for making decisions in order to take early measures for process optimization.

With embedded technology and a particularly large field of view, a new 3D sensor from ISRA VISION offers short scanning times and fast data availability, making it ideal for use directly on the production line.

It started with a blank. But how does the workpiece get onto the line or into the machine? Depending on the state it is delivered in, this task can quickly become very complex. Reliable 3D object detection systems optically capture and evaluate data. Liebherr works with a variety of 3D vision systems to match the requirements and smoothly handles the supply of every haphazardly stored part with process precision.

Cognex VisionPro ViDi enables deep learning-based machine vision for automatic identification, inspection and classification.

The verification of barcodes helps ensuring the readability of the barcode throughout the complete supply chain. Barcode verification is the process of grading the quality of barcodes. A barcode verifier assigns an overall grade to a code based on measurements of several quality parameters. Depending on the code type they apply different national and international standards.