When it comes to driving industrial efficiency, inspection vision systems regularly play a key role in enabling reliable and effective robotics and automated solutions, giving you an ‘all-seeing-eye’ for automated process or robot application. Once considered to be a ‘dark art’, resulting in excessive costs compared to conventional methods, vision inspection was often pushed, but not developed to its full potential.
With the rapid growth of AI and machine learning, along with cost-effective, user-friendly image sensors, vision inspection has become more affordable and attainable. A perfect example is SICK’s powerful and compact Visionary-T Mini camera, combined with their easy-to-use Nova 3D Presence Inspection toolset.
The SICK Visionary-T Mini uses snapshot Time-Of-Flight (TOF) technology to set new standards of data accuracy for detailed environmental perception at rapid production speeds. With a low-weight and no moving parts, the Visionary-T Mini’s IP65/67 housing makes it ideal for installation in compact robotics and automation solutions. Even in situations where shocks and vibrations could present a problem to other vision systems, the SICK Visionary-T Mini performs reliably.
Cutting out the ‘black magic’, SICK’s Nova software is an intuitive common development software platform across a range of 2D and 3D cameras. Nova doesn’t need programming skills – this allows a user to quickly create and deploy different inspection tasks depending on their needs.
The combination of the 3D TOF Visionary-T Mini with the intuitive Nova software makes a well-suited solution for continuous 3D fill level monitoring, or identifying the presence of parts in a bin/box/tote, or of ingredients in a vessel.
