Industrial cameras are designed to withstand the needs of industries by offering high standards in robust and consistent performance. They are also termed as machine vision cameras, as they are primarily used in manufacturing processes comprising of complex measurement tasks and diverse applications to provide image based automatic inspection, microscopy applications, R&D testing, robot guidance, process control, production monitoring, intelligent traffic systems, quality control and many more.
In industrial imaging applications, these cameras have made a difference by leveraging latest innovations along with exceptional price performance. They offer advanced features with diverse digital interfaces and high quality CCD and CMOS sensors. These industrial digital cameras have excelled in industrial imaging applications due to their flexible mechanical design, supporting standard industry protocols, highly compatible with third party peripherals and comprising of outstanding price performance and customer support. These digital industrial cameras are ideal for higher image quality and are more robust than standard digital cameras in terms of specialized measurement tasks as they require highly detailed images. They are efficiently used for a broad range of different applications to optimize their applicability. Industrial camera manufacturers are focused to provide high performance camera solutions for industrial, sports, information technology, military and medical applications. For instance, line scan industrial cameras are used for print inspection. Similarly, area scan cameras are widely used for factory automation applications. High resolution industrial cameras, such as 3D mapping cameras are used to create three-dimensional image of an object on a map by means of high resolution sensors. For industrial inspection applications, high speed cameras with high frame rates are widely used for quality control to ensure efficiency and productivity in manufacturing process. Industrial camera monitoring systems are widely used for process monitoring, facility surveillance, asset protection and assembly line monitoring. Thus, cameras are a way forward to face the challenges of varying ambient environment and to provide customized solutions to meet industrial specific needs such as quality control, robotics, 3D measurement and non-destructive testing etc. The need to trade-off resolution for speed is greatly minimized by the use of these industrial cameras based on latest camera interfaces and CCD, CMOS and InGaAs sensor technology, thus enabling high industrial productivity and industrial strength as a whole. |