Machine Vision Lighting

You need a partner who understands the most important aspect of a machine vision solution is the lighting—someone with deep expertise and accessible and not someone so big that the engineers are hidden behind management and salespeople. Invent Automation is an expert in all things machine vision lighting. From custom high powered dome lights to water cooled coaxial collimated lighting solutions, we understand the wide variety of techniques that will best expose your defects because we live this world every day.

You need engineers and inventors knowledgeable in:

1. The large number of lighting techniques and how and when to use them
2. How optics and lighting interplay off each other to yield the best results
3. When built in smart camera lighting is not enough
4. How to properly exploit the right light spectrum for the job
5. Proper lighting can speed up your image acquisition

Common pitfalls in machine vision lighting that we ensure you don’t fall into:

1. Not picking the right technique for the job at hand
2. Not understanding how lighting techniques can decrease metrology accuracy and repeatability 
3. Not considering what the proper spectrum of light should be for the job

We’ve been to hundreds of plants and seen thousands of projects. We’ve rescued machine vision jobs by deploying better lighting, learned from others' mistakes, made some of our own, and know what it takes to make a machine vision solution successful through proper illumination.

Our machine vision solutions start with a phone call and a visit where we listen, throw around crazy ideas, and ask “what if” together. It’s a lot of fun compared to the daily grind. But we don’t prescribe before diagnosing. We seek to understand the drivers and business results that warrant the investment in machine vision. You want a bespoke custom machine vision solution tailored to your needs, and it must deliver business results on time so you can make a return on your investment. We know it’s not about deploying a particular technology or brand; it’s all about achieving your business goal.

Your crazy idea might work. We exist to Invent Automation. Call, email, or chat with us here and talk to an inventor who gets it, so your custom machine vision system can get built and you can get that win.