Capabilities

Project Implementation

Our project qualification steps: Creation of a reliable project basis, product and software engineering or adaptation, series production, and support.

How we work on projects

Machine vision systems are complex and often require customized solutions. These range from the selection of individual components to a turnkey system. Our teams help you make good decisions and guide the project through the entire development process. Typical project steps are

Pre-development phase
Product and software engineering or adaptation including prototyping, verification and testing
Volume production
Lifecycle management and support

Pre-development

Pre-development phase:

Creating a reliable project basis

The pre-development phase ends with a concept that defines all technological aspects from hardware to application software. Solid commercial figures for implementation, including a timeline and a proposal for production and lifecycle management, complete our scope of services. This provides you with a comprehensive project recommendation and assessment.

Concept development

Breakdown of requirements into technical characteristics
Definition of core elements in terms of suitable imaging and processing components, e.g. optics, sensor, processing system
Development of a specific hardware and software concept
Creation of a proof of concept or functional model

Economic feasibility analysis

Estimation of development costs
Calculation of production costs
Investigate time-to-market

Development

Product and software development

In this step, we implement the previously defined concept and develop the system.

Hardware development

Integration of optics and illumination: development of project-specific lens solutions, project-specific illumination design
Sensor integration
Integration of interfaces for communication with the target system
Fulfillment of specific housing requirements, e.g. IP67 suitability
Development of a suitable processing platform, e.g. based on NVIDIA® Jetson™, or development of a vision system consisting of frame grabbers with our FPGA programming software VisualApplets and a boost camera

Software development

Custom development of system software and firmware
System specific application software, e.g. barcode reading
Container management for easy deployment of application software

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Project examples

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Chip trays OCR
Our OCR solution efficiently reads challenging characters on chip trays or IC trays, overcoming low contrast and variable working distances in fast-paced production environment.
- Tracking & Monitoring
Quality assurance for stacking pouch battery cells
Precisely layering the electrode sheets and separator is critical for the quality of the battery cell. Machine vision provides accurate stacking alignment in the µm range.
- AOI, error detection, and quality control
- Measuring
- Electronics industry
Modular dart M camera in additive manufacturing
This board level camera is well suited for inline process monitoring. Its modular design allows it to fit into tight spaces and offers the performance of a GigE camera.
- Factory automation
- AOI, error detection, and quality control
Quality control in electrode coating
Coating the substrate foil with slurry is a critical production step in battery cell manufacturing. Our vision technology quickly detects particles and voids in large amounts of image data.
- AOI, error detection, and quality control
- Measuring
- Electronics industry
- Classification
Removing Lens Geometric Distortion through Advanced Image Processing
This use case introduces a software solution with image pre-processing on a frame grabber to remove lens distortion from camera vision systems.
- Measuring
- AOI, error detection, and quality control
E-Check: Automated Inspection of ICE Trains
Deutsche Bahn relies on imaging for maintenance tasks: ‌with a mobile robot, 32 ace 2 cameras, and AI, the company is prepared for increasing passenger numbers in long-distance transport.
- Traffic, transportation, infrastructure
- AOI, error detection, and quality control
- Classification
Image-based Autofocus Solution with Algorithms on Frame Grabber FPGA
Image-based autofocus solution with preloaded algorithms on frame grabber FPGA. Reduces CPU load and saves development time for system integrators.
- AOI, error detection, and quality control
- Reading & Scanning
Machine Vision in Soccer
Goal Line Technology and Video Assistant Referees can make soccer decisions fairer, but high speeds in sports pose challenges for the systems.
- Tracking & Monitoring
- Position Recognition
- People Recognition
- Sports & entertainment
Robot with 3D vision
Autonomous robots with Basler Time-of-Flight cameras are important helpers in production logistics. Learn more.
- Warehouse automation
- Robotics

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