Not all surfaces respond similarly to standard direct illumination techniques. Surface color, texture, shape, and composition can all influence where and how much of the incident light is reflected into a vision camera, greatly affecting the inspection results. Read on for our example of inspecting a cylindrical surface.
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We’re proud to announce the release of our UltraSeal Washdown Bar Lights – the newest addition to the UltraSeal Washdown family! The AL247 Bar Lights are IP69K certified and their patent-pending design is virtually crevice-free, making them ideal for hygienic inspection environments, aseptic manufacturing, and food and beverage applications.
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2019 is coming to a close, and we find that the end of a year provides an excellent opportunity to reflect. This year has brought us new faces, new products, and exciting new opportunities within the machine vision industry. Read on to see what changed for us in 2019 and what we’re looking forward to in the new year!
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Robust vision light solutions often face one challenge: unwanted glare. In this post, we concentrate on how to reduce glare from vision lighting – particularly from a part’s curved, specular surface, which is one of the most common application uses for polarizers.
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Lighting plastic lids for inspection poses many challenges. Because of the variety of surface texture, reflectivity, color, and orientations, finding the correct inspection solution can present challenges that may affect the choice of lighting geometry.
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At Ai, we claim to deliver quality LED lighting solutions to our customers… and we can prove it! Read more about our Quality Testing here. Through stringent product testing, streamlined documentation system, and our ISO 9001 process, we deliver the highest quality, most reliable lighting solutions for your machine vision application.
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Packaging inspection has typically presented a variety of challenges for machine vision developers and integrators alike. This is primarily because of the wide range in types of packaging – materials, colors, sizes, shapes, and textures used.
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We are proud to officially announce a change to the Ai Warranty Policy! We stand behind the quality of the LED illumination products we engineer, and we feel this new warranty displays our commitment to our customers and confidence in the continued performance of our products.
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Determining whether to apply lights in a bright field versus dark field geometry is one of the more difficult decisions facing Machine Vision engineers. Both techniques have advantages and disadvantages: in this blog, we will concentrate on a comparison between the two using common vision applications.
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We are proud to announce the release of our UltraSeal Washdown Backlights. The innovative BL245 UltraSeal Washdown Backlights are IP69K certified and engineered with a sealed, flush surface, making them virtually crevice-free.
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SignaTech (Signature Technology) is Advanced illumination’s proprietary control system that allows our LED illuminators in machine vision systems to operate at maximum output under all operating conditions, while protecting the light head from damage. The SignaTech Control System allows pulsing of certain LEDs up to 50x overdrive currents while still maintaining the highest flux output and longest lifetime of the LEDs.
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In machine vision, backlighting is one of the most common and useful lighting techniques. However, incorporating backlighting into machine vision systems can be difficult, primarily because component placement geometry requires access to the part top and bottom (or front and back) for the camera and backlight.
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