www.advantech.com/products Online Download Machine Vision Introduction Introduction Machine vision is used in every manufacturing market, from food beverage, pharmaceuticals, automotive, semiconductor to general manufacturing, the human eye inspection and response is too slow and unreliable for the demanding manufacturing process nowadays, replacing human inspection with machine vision can go further in the automating factory operation, the majors applications are quality assurance, production automation and identification The era of Industry 4.0 is upon us, the scope of the factory will change dramatically, not only the ability to produce, but to produce with the most flexibility and efficiency, machine vision plays an important role in achieving 100% quality control in manufacturing, reducing costs, increase flexibility and ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction to fit the demands of smart manufacturing. The move from analog to digital is prevalent, and the GigE Vision become the most significant interface in this market, Advantech provides high performance GigE Vision solutions, an open PC-based architecture, including industrial camera, computing platform, frame grabber for the traceability, alignment, gauge, identification and inspection application to fulfill the requirements for versatile machine vision applications. Selection Guide Application Stories Backend semiconductor packaging inspection machines The semiconductor industry has some of the most demanding applications, requiring a combination of extreme accuracy and precision combined with high throughput. Keeping up with innovations in packaging, the challenges to achieve this drastically increase. The fast-paced progress towards greater densities and finer dimensions are pushing the limits of vision systems. Advantech suggested an intelligent GigE Vision frame grabber, DSP-based multi-axis motion control card and compact modularized system for direct integration in space- constrained machine to accomplish high-precision, high productivity IC packaging inspection. The solution adopts an industrial grade computer to combine PCIE-1174, four-channel intelligent GigE Vision frame grabber with include a dedicated FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) to reconstruct images before transmitting them in real time to the host PC via DMA (Direct Memory Access). This then frees up the host PC’s processor and ensures there is no frame or packet loss during image acquisition. Improve fabric quality in textile industry Textile manufacturing is a very complex process. Weaving is the most basic process which involves interlacing a set of vertical threads (called the warp) with a set of horizontal threads (called the weft). The new optical web inspection system can detect the warp thread break less one second and ease of use and maintenance. Accordingly, Advantech suggested the UNO-3283G, an Intel i7 Fanless Automation Computer with 2 x GbE, 2 x mPCIe, HDMI, DVI-I, and PCIE-1172, two channel intelligent GigE Vision frame grabber with include a dedicated FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) to reconstruct images before transmitting them in real time to the host PC via DMA (Direct Memory Access). This then frees up the host PC’s processor and ensures there is no frame or packet loss during image acquisition. To further aid installation and maintenance, this series also includes the use of PoE (Power over Ethernet) and Ad Hoc protocol which, like DHCP, doesn’t require a specific IP address and enables System Integrators (SI) to simply plug the camera in and go. Implement the product traceability in food & beverage As the market demand for food safety increases, traceability is getting more attention in the food and beverage industry as well as the packaging industry. One of the world’s leading providers of beverage containers would like to identify the bar codes, characters and numbers one the ink-jet printing labels at a 7 unit per second run rate. Advantech provided the multiple camera, PC-based automated optical identification system to identify the bar code, data code, and the character on the beverage container, the system consists of AIIS-1240, 4-CH PoE compact vision system with Intel® Core™ i7 CPU; Inspector Express, a graphical user interface machine vision application software specifically designed to simplify the design and deployment of automated inspection on the factory floor; QCAM-GM0640-120CE, 0.3 Megapixel industrial camera, features with the PoE (Power over Ethernet) to simplify installation and maintenance. Vision system and robotics ensure finished product quality in automotive industry In the automotive industry, quality control is an extremely important part. Most of time, there are engineers to verify the interiors and exteriors, including dash board, door, seat, light, and color for the finished product quality check. In one of the largest automotive groups, there are about 100 items in the finished product check list and the client was looking for a quality check system to perform the inspection automatically. To automate the quality check of the parts in different vehicles, a flexible and extensible system had to be created, and due to numbers of characteristic, the system integrators designed the AOI (Automated Optics Inspection) system with multiple-camera and robots for high flexibility and efficiency. To satisfy this case, Advantech suggested PCIE-1674E, four channel GigE Vision frame grabber and QCAM-GM2500-014CE, 5.0 Megapixel industrial camera including PoE (Power over Ethernet) function, to simply the installation and maintenance. Besides these, there are other products to help provide the client with the desired functionality. The UNO-3283G, an Intel i7 Fanless Automation Computer with 2 x GbE, 2 x mPCIe, HDMI, DVI-I, and the PC- 1756, a 64-ch Isolated Digital I/O PCI Card for digital signal path to provide the total solutions in this case. Need dedicated bandwidth For each channel 2 IPC Yes No EKI-9000 and IPC PCIE-1672E/74E and IPC Yes No Yes No Need multiple channel/ task application 1 Need high fps, performance 3 PCIE-1172/74 and IPC Power & Energy Automation 8 5 4 4 10 Panel PCs 9 iDoor Technology Modules 8 Industrial monitors 7 Industrial IoT Gateways 6 Control Cabinet PCs High-Performance Control Panels Industrial Operator Panels 3 2 IntelligentMotionControl andMachineVision 1 WebAccess+ Solution 11 Control IPCs 12 Remote DA&C Systems 13 Wireless IoT Sensing Devices 14 15 RS-485 I/O Modules 16 Thin-Client Terminals Industrial Ethernet Solutions 17 IP Gateway and Serial Device Servers iNetworking 18 19 Ethernet I/O Modules Chapter 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents