Last year, Teledyne combined its various vision technologies into one group called Teledyne Vision Solutions. This grouping was developed to align the company’s Teledyne Dalsa, e2v CMOS image sensors, FLIR IIS, Lumenera, Photometrics, Princeton Instruments, Judson Technologies, Acton Optics and Adimec products inside Teledyne and make it easier for end users to select the appropriate technologies for their vision system applications.
This alignment brings together Teledyne’s portfolio of vision technologies that “encompass 1D, 2D and 3D cameras under one umbrella along with related software including image acquisition and AI software as well as software for alignment and QA inspection,” explained Brian Donnelly with Teledyne Vision Solutions.
While Teledyne Vision Solutions’ products are used by the scientific, OEM, aerospace, medical and life sciences, defense and intelligent transportation industries, Donnelly noted that the food and beverage industry has been doing a lot of work incorporating machine vision recently.
A big factor for manufacturers in this industry is the ability to clean off equipment all equipment between shifts.
“Having an IP67-rated machine vision camera that’s waterproof and dustproof so that it that can be hosed off between processing different types of food and beverage items” has become increasingly important, Donnelly said. He added that, in the automotive industry, machine vision interest is high for applications that can adapt to the speed of robotic movements. “That makes the latency of a machine vision system quite important.”
He added that vision systems in automotive are also used to inspect components to ensure they’re within the tolerance required by the OEM.
“The semiconductor industry is also a major customer of Teledyne Vision Solutions products for alignment and inspection applications to spot defects,” Donnelly said. “Here we can use SWIR (shortwave infrared) technology to detect defects that are beyond what the human eye can see.”
As part of Teledyne Vision Solutions’ alignment of its products, the company launched a new website that enables users to search by product categories, such as: cameras, image sensors, 3D vision, frame grabbers, vision systems, industrial infrared, spectrometers and X-ray. The site’s Camera Selector Tool lets users choose a camera type, application and required specifications to show multiple appropriate camera options.
In the video below, Brian Donnelly explains the company’s alignment of vision technologies and provides a demonstration related to the food industry to show how the Bumblee X 3D vision system, attached to a robot, enables it to move trays to different locations and even detect the difference between fresh and stale products.
