Enhancements Collectively Contribute to More Accurate Vision Measurement Systems
3D metrology, lasers and scanners have adapted to meet the specific challenges posed by new product developments.
Posted: January 3, 2024
As industries such as automotive transition to new product developments such as electric vehicles, vision measurement systems continue to evolve and measure these new parts with accuracy.
A Complete Measurement Solution
Automated Precision Inc.’s (Rockville, MD) popular bundles of Radian Plus and vProbe or iScan3D are available at their lowest prices. Both bundles include the Radian Plus Laser Tracker, which is known for its high accuracy and long-range measurement capabilities. Also available are the vProbe, a high-precision, non-contact measurement probe that is ideal for use in tight spaces and hard-to-reach areas or iScan3D, a high-speed handheld scanner with flexible probe locations for all part inspection or reverse engineering applications. Together, these products provide a complete measurement solution for a wide range of industrial and manufacturing applications. Laser Trackers and tactile probes are used by many industries such as aerospace, automotive and heavy machinery.
New Line Scan Camera Reaches Top Single Rate of 172 KHZ
Emergent Vision Technologies (Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada), a pioneer in high-speed GigE Vision cameras and zero-data-loss vision technologies, introduces a new 10GigE line scan camera, the PACE LR-4KG35. Through its 10GigE SFP+ interface, the camera reaches a top single line rate of 172 KHz.
The LR-4KG35 line scan camera features the 4Kx2 Gpixel GL3504 CMOS image sensor, with a 3.5-x-3.5µm pixel cell size and a 14.336 mm sensor scanning width. “This 10GigE camera offers minimal system memory utilization with the lowest possible latency or jitter at rates up to 172 kHz,” said John Ilett, president and CTO, Emergent Vision Technologies.
The camera also provides both 8-bit and 10-bit modes with 4Kx2 resolution and a dynamic range of 66 dB. Available in both monochrome and color versions, the cameras can be used with Windows and Linux operating systems. The camera delivers high-speed, low-noise image capture at 4K vision to ensure that all inspection, sorting, and production control requirements are met.
Company Continues as Market Leader of Vision Systems
Mitutoyo America Corp. (Aurora, IL) has announced several new enhancements to its Vision Pro vision measurement system line. The StrobeSnap vision measuring function speeds up quality run time compared to other competitor’s machines by approximately 35-to-45%, regardless of measurement position or continuity while achieving higher throughput and high-precision measurements. Additionally, autofocus on the QV Pro Series is about 39% faster than previous models, which were already the fastest in their class, without loss of accuracy for measurement.
The vision market’s expansion is attributed to many new developments over the last several years, including the automotive industry, which is transitioning from combustion engines to electric. Vision measurement is taking on a larger role in the construction of electric vehicles (EV). EV motors are now manufactured in a way which makes vision measurement a more accurate, effective, and cost-effective solution than its CMM counterparts for parts quality inspection, with motors typically composed of several layers of rotors that are stamped and stacked on top of each other and laminated together. Most CMM probes would have a difficult time measuring these parts with any accuracy.
