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The Lighting Resource for Machine Vision

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Products for Machine Vision

New Product or Process?

Phoenix Imaging provides Consulting Services to a wide range of industries.  The Consulting Services are designed to help a perspective client understand the capability of machine vision equipment and software as it may be applied to solving a unique inspection problem.  

The Service is most helpful in the development of a new applications that must be technologically "proven" as viable.  When a product or process is new, it is difficult to investigate "similar" applications.  The machine vision solution may involve much more than simple implementation of "off-the-shelf" hardware.  The solution may involve the development of new lighting techniques, special optics or even a new software tool to extract relevant information.

It is a common practice before the issue a purchase order for a "Turn-Key" product to demonstrate the capability of a machine vision system.  However, there are times when the demonstration requires the sales / engineering staff to provide a protracted effort.  When the application requires more than the simple investigation of the system's capabilities a Consulting Contract must be considered.

The Consulting Services may be contracted by the day or by project.  The Consulting Service can be performed by an Application Engineer or a Staff Scientist, the fees are appropriate to the level of expertise required.

Key Benefits

Capabilities

Phoenix Imaging started as a machine vision consulting firm in 1985.  With over Fifteen years of practical machine vision experience we have developed the "know-how" to develop and implement a wide range of technologies.  We can help you develop the proper front-end optics, select the best lighting approach and customize software for a complete solution, select the optimum image processing equipment, generation of standard and custom software.

Front-End Optics and Lighting Solutions

Phoenix Imaging offers an extensive selection of machine vision sensors, lenses and lighting system.  A a matter of fact Phoenix Imaging provides the widest offering of OEM lighting systems anywhere.  Most of our high quality illumination systems were developed out of the needs of specific customer requirements.  Check out entire lighting system product line under Lighting Products.

 

Standard Machine Vision Products

Phoenix Imaging offers a complete line of machine vision systems.  Starting with the most basic "Checker" system, designed for simple high speed applications such as in-line bottle inspections, electronic components inspection and feature presence.

        

The PVS-20 and PVS-30 systems designed for high speed inspection using a dedicated image processor.  These system are based on the Sharp IV-S20 and IV-S32 processors and don't require a PC for set-up or operations.  The operations is so simple that even an engineer can use it.

        

The PVS-100 and PVS-200 provide the ultimate in flexibility and speed.  These system are designed for customers that require custom operator interfaces and special features.  Both systems use the Windows NT operating system and can be programmed in Visual Basic or Visual C++.

 

Software Tools and Operator Interface Design

Phoenix Imaging is different than most machine vision providers in the fact that we generate our own image processing tools.  The fact is that most machine vision suppliers don't generate their own tools, they simply implement tools created by someone else.  Phoenix Imaging creates dynamic link libraries (DLL) and Active-X controls (vision tools) that can be customized for specific customer requirements.  The Phoenix Imaging "VisionMaker" development system offers over 300 image processing functions that can be arranged in a nearly infinite number of ways.  This allows us to create vision algorithms that function as required.

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