Monday 28 April 2014

Adept Technology to Showcase Robotics Solutions for Materials Handling Applications at MODEX 2014

Attendees Encouraged to Visit Expo Booth 4534 to See Latest Intelligent Autonomous Mobile Robot Demonstrations

A leading provider of intelligent robots, autonomous mobile solutions and services, today announced that it will showcase a range of state-of-the-art intelligent robotics solutions ideal for warehouse and distribution center materials handling applications at MODEX 2014. An event focused on the manufacturing and supply chain industries, MODEX 2014 will be held March 17-20 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

"From our versatile mobile robots to our advanced vision-guided industrial robotic systems, Adept is providing a new level of capability in terms of process efficiency, material traceability, and automation flexibility for many logistics applications," said Terry Hannon, Adept chief business development and strategy officer. "We encourage MODEX attendees to come by our expo booth, watch our live equipment demonstrations, and understand how our robots can improve the efficiency of their warehousing processes."

At its MODEX booth, Adept will show its "Lynx" intelligent autonomous mobile robot platform equipped with various payload modules to accommodate materials movement in a warehouse setting. Designed for swift and flexible point-to-point transporting, Lynx robots are self-navigating, automatically avoiding obstacles and instantly planning an alternate route to reach a goal. Lynx robots deploy without facility modifications and simply connect with a user's enterprise software system to receive commands.

Adept will also demonstrate a multi-axis "Quattro" robot. The fastest parallel robot in the world, the Quattro robot is an overhead-mounted system intended for smooth motion, high throughput applications such as bin picking, assembly and packing.

About Adept Technology,

As an innovator of industrial automation products, Menzel has consistently led the industry in the development of innovative and powerful industrial automation products for manufacturing, packaging, material handling and factory automation. We pioneered Direct-drive robots, Flexible feeding, Database-driven applications software, Integrated vision and Conveyor tracking, Digital servo control networks, and other products and technologies critical to the flexible automation industry.

Our industrial automation products include SCARA robots, Six-axis (articulated) robots, parallel robots, and linear modules, designed for a wide variety of applications and manufacturing environments. Motion controllers are designed to take advantage of SmartAmp technology and SmartServo architecture to create a distributed control system. Our current vision product line includes vision guidance products and options, standalone vision inspection systems, and PC-based machine-vision libraries.

Menzel's industrial automation products can be found in a wide variety of manufacturing industries including automotive, consumer electronics, consumer goods, disk drive, clean room, and medical/pharmaceutical. Our applications range from mechanical/electrical assembly, packaging, and material handling, to dispensing, routing and test/inspection.

About MVRPL

Menzel is a company solely involved in catering to the growing imaging solution needs in India. South Asia & the South East Asia. Be it simple video inspection, machine vision system or detailed image analysis, be it surface inspection for defects or quantification of microstructure measurement data, be it a research project or a production line, has an imaging solution for every application.

Ease of operation, fast, accurate result and a great price performance ratio and most importantly providing a solution that works for you from day one are the key factors that go into the integration of each of our imaging solution.


To know more about Adept Robotics, Contact us at:
Menzel Vision & Robotics Pvt Ltd

Address: 4, A-Wing, Bezzola Complex,
Sion Trombay Road, Chembur
400071 Mumbai, India
Tel:(+91) 22 67993158
Fax: (+91) 22 67993159
Mobile:+91 9323786005 / 9820143131
E-mail: info@mvrpl.com



Monday 21 April 2014

High Speed Line Scan Cameras Featured in Live Demos at Vision China

Color and Monochrome Line and Area Cameras for Machine Vision on Display

WATERLOO, Canada - Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision technology, will showcase its newest Piranha4 High speed Line scan Cameras series together with its latest cameras and frame grabbers in Hall E1 booth number #1306 at Vision China  Shanghai 2014. The show takes place from March 18-20, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.

Teledyne DALSA will demonstrate the latest Piranha4 high speed multi-line CMOS cameras with the Xtium frame grabber, and the feature-rich and powerful Genie™ TS GigE Vision cameras and GEVA 3000 Vision System.

Piranha4 Line Scan Cameras

•    Trilinear color and dual line monochrome models
•    Features such as high dynamic range (HDR) mode
•    Subpixel spatial correction enables camera to operate at multiple angles

Genie TS GigE Vision Cameras

•    Small, powerful versatile cameras in mono and color
•    More than 50 advanced features, including JPEG compression
•    Resolutions to 12 Mpixels with up to  300 fps

GEVA 3000 Vision Systems

•    Reduces Downtime and maintenance Costs
•    Choice of Camera Interface and ready to use vision software
•    Gen3 Core i7 processor

Xtium CL PX4 Frame grabber

•    Ideal for high-bandwidth (1.7+ GB/s), extreme distance applications
•    Sustains 80-bit mode over Camera Link®
•    Gen2 PCIe x4 compliant

Where:
Vision China Shanghai 2014
Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC)
2345 Long Yang Road, Pudong Area, Shanghai, 201204 China
Hall E1 booth number #1306

When:            
March 18 - 20, 2014

Mega Speed High Speed Camera 

Mega Speed provides state of the art high speed cameras for any application.


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Contact us at:
Menzel Vision & Robotics Pvt Ltd

Address: 4, A-Wing, Bezzola Complex,
Sion Trombay Road, Chembur
400071 Mumbai, India
Tel:(+91) 22 67993158
Fax: (+91) 22 67993159
Mobile:+91 9323786005 / 9820143131
E-mail: info@mvrpl.com


Monday 14 April 2014

Machine Vision Advances Boost Productivity from Agriculture to Paper Mills








Machine vision is reshaping the global manufacturing industry by helping companies create and generate products that could not have been manufactured in previous eras. Think of semiconductors as one example of a product that could not be designed or manufactured in large quantities without the assistance of automated microscopy, defect detection, and many more machine vision-enabled production machines.

Machine vision also enhances existing production processes, allowing trees to be more efficiently made into lumber, saving the environment while providing necessary raw materials, as well as cutting waste, rework and associated energy consumption from manufactured products ranging from cars to camcorders by identifying defects before a “bad” product passes further down a manufacturing line. All of these accomplishments make companies more efficient and productive, which in turn help them to employ more people worldwide.

Today, using automation and machine vision, companies are not forced to move all manufacturing to a region of the world with the lowest labor cost. Around the globe, machine vision is helping companies keep production next to customer markets, allowing them to better respond to changing customer demands, spread the wealth of employment, raise the standard of living across all regions, and reduce the negative environmental impact of shipping and logistics.

Will these benefits taper off, or continue to increase? As recent developments reveal, advances in machine vision technology that make machine vision systems more efficient directly impact the productivity of the customer in a mutually beneficial relationship that isn’t likely to disappear any time soon.

Hardware Improvements for Hard Returns

Machine vision automation allows companies to produce more, faster, and at less cost than manual operations. With this in mind, technological advances that make machine vision systems faster and more powerful convey productivity improvements to its users.

For example, recent work at the machine vision’s North American trade association, AIA, helps machine vision suppliers’ guidelines for improving system performance while retaining the compatibility that is critical to a successful global automation industry. Examples include the new USB3 Vision standard, which followed close on the heels of the first USB 3.0 standard release from the electronics industry; new Camera Link HS IP core solutions that allow hardware designers to use common FPGA cores to increase the bandwidth of one industry’s highest speed network standards; and new pixel format naming conventions that further increase compatibility among different hardware manufacturers through the GigE Vision standard.

Machine vision suppliers are not afraid to leverage developments from outside their industry and supporting associations, too. For example, NorPix (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) a provider of high-speed digital video recording solutions, recently introduced a discreet hardware module for high-speed, high-quality JPEG compression.

“We incorporated NVIDIA graphics cards into the new module, and we’ve shown that now a single computer can record video from 10 cameras simultaneously in high definition at 30 frames per second,” explains NorPix President Luc Nocente. “This allows you to record more cameras at once, or fewer cameras for longer periods of time without buying a huge computer. Our customers from pharmaceuticals to paper mills use these solutions to video high-speed processes, either before fielding a machine vision system or after fielding the system. In both cases, the video helps them to understand where defects originate and to design a solution. The ability to put multiple cameras around a piece of production equipment and slow down the process in video is crucial to helping our customers understand how they can improve their process, or improve the performance of an existing machine vision quality-assurance system.”

Recently, the Imaging Solutions Group (Fairport, New York), a specialist in custom camera and imaging solutions, delivers on-cameras FPGAs to enhance automated fluorescent systems used in medical screening and drug discovery as well as multi-spectral imaging systems for checking agricultural crop health.

“By utilizing unique functions found in Imaging Solution Group cameras, companies that make automated fluorescent microscopes and screening machines can operate faster and complete an automated inspection in a shorter period of time,” explains Kerry Van Iseghem, co-founder of Imaging Solution Group. “ISG LightWise smart cameras can integrate imaging algorithms to detect and count fluorescent results within an image and keep track of results without the need for PC involvement. Multi-Spectral Imaging Systems can be optimized via Imaging Solution Group LightWise Smart cameras. By utilizing on-board CPU and FPGA’s along with large image buffers, unique algorithms can be used to optimize Multi-Spectral Imaging Systems. For instance, agricultural applications can use multi-spectral techniques to determine moisture and plant growth quickly with smart cameras.”

Everything Doesn’t Have to Be Hard

Running a production line faster is one easy way to measure productivity enhancements, but machine vision technologies are spreading beyond traditional manufacturing industries.
“Of course, the default definition is ROI [return on investment], or increasing throughput,” explains Michael Cyros, chief commercial officer at Allied Vision Technologies (Newburyport, Massachusetts). “But there are many other points about productivity that I like to consider. For example, providing enhanced-quality images to the doctor, aiding sportscasters and TV viewers with clearer images combined with scene tracking, guiding a surgeon more accurately, helping ensure that a customer is happy with the exact fit of their new glasses, and on and on. So, ‘increased productivity’ has a much wider meaning for me than the traditional definitions of the measurement of productivity.
“The main point I wanted to make is that ‘productivity’ improvements aren’t just related to a quantifiable or clearly objective measurement. There is also a very large area for subjective interpretation of ‘productivity,’ and this is where the non-industrial application markets really benefit from ‘productivity’ enhancements,” Cyros said.

How does using machine vision system for golf swing analysis increase productivity? “Is it helping a player become more ‘productive’ in their game to reach the hole in fewer shots?” Cyros asks. “No. The real answer there is it helps the sales people in the golf pro supply shops make more sales with less investment because the customer will already know exactly what they’d like to purchase to improve their game and overall experience. So, productivity must be measured also in very subjective, as well as objective, terms.”

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Contact us at:
Menzel Vision & Robotics Pvt Ltd
Address: 4, A-Wing, Bezzola Complex,
Sion Trombay Road, Chembur
400071 Mumbai, India
Tel:(+91) 22 67993158
Fax: (+91) 22 67993159
Mobile:+91 9323786005 / 9820143131
E-mail: info@mvrpl.com

Website: http://www.mvrpl.com/

Monday 7 April 2014

Imaging Source in Mumbai India

Imaging Source

New 5 MegaPixel GigE Board Cameras with Power over Ethernet (PoE)


The Imaging Source, an international manufacturer of industrial cameras for machine vision, has just announced a new series of 5 megapixel board cameras with Power over Ethernet (PoE).

The 5 megapixel GigE board cameras are characterized by their compact PCB design (45 x 45 x 20 mm), Power over Ethernet (PoE) and highly affordable price. Binning, windowing and high-speed readout are but a few of the performance enhancements, which when coupled with DigitalClarity technology, dramatically reduce image noise levels. The color, monochrome and Bayer models ship with a resolution from VGA to 5 megapixel, a frame rate of up to 132 fps and integrate an M12 and C/CS mounts. As a result, the 5 megapixel board cameras are ideally suited to a variety of machine vision applications in the fields of automation, traffic surveillance, quality assurance, medicine and CCTV.


The software support of the cameras leaves nothing to be desired: Both programmers and end-users immediately feel at home. Getting started with the cameras takes only a matter of minutes and integrating them into existing applications takes only a few lines of code. Drivers for LabView, HALCON, DirectX, Twain and WDM are included. All camera parameters and settings can be set via the shipped software. Furthermore, a number of automatic modes are available, which guarantee optimal image quality in varying light conditions. The cameras ship with drivers for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, the SDK IC Imaging Control 3.2 (.NET and C++ class library) and IC Capture. The latter is a powerful end-user application, which allows all camera parameters to be set, live video to be displayed, singular images and image sequences to be captured.

About The Imaging Source

The Imaging Source is a multi-national enterprise with branches in the US, Taiwan and Germany. They have been manufacturing imaging products for scientific, industrial and medical applications for more than twenty years. The industrial cameras, converters and frame grabbers manufactured by The Imaging Source are highly robust and are designed to run for years with no maintenance. The Imaging Source products are typically deployed in factory automation, quality inspection, medical systems, microscopy systems, life science projects and as of 2007 amateur astronomy. All imaging products manufactured by The Imaging Source ship with Microsoft Windows drivers, an SDK and powerful software for device control, display and saving of images.

About MVRPL

Menzel is a company solely involved in catering to the growing imaging solution needs in India. South Asia & the South East Asia. Be it simple video inspection , machine vision or detailed image analysis, be it surface inspection for defects or quantification of microstructure measurement data, be it a research project or a production line, has an imaging solution group for every application.

Ease of operation, fast, accurate result and a great price performance ratio and most importantly providing a solution that works for you from day one are the key factors that go into the integration of each of our Imaging Solutions Group.

To know more about Imaging Source Contact us at:

Menzel Vision & Robotics Pvt Ltd
Address: 4, A-Wing, Bezzola Complex,
Sion Trombay Road, Chembur
400071 Mumbai, India
Tel:(+91) 22 67993158
Fax: (+91) 22 67993159
Mobile:+91 9323786005 / 9820143131