PC Based Machine Vision

You need a partner who understands when to call in the big guns and use PC based machine vision—not someone in their garage and not someone so big that the engineers are hidden behind management and salespeople. Invent knows that when you need to do a lot of analysis very fast it’s time to switch away from smart cameras and move to PC machine vision. From multicamera systems running off one PC or when you need to quickly take images off a 120-megapixel camera, we got you covered.

You need engineers and inventors knowledgeable in:

1. The use and selection of proper capture cards
2. Properly selecting or building custom lighting
3. Selecting the properly industrial camera interface
4. Programming in C languages and using libraries like TensorFlow, OpenCV and HALCON
5. Properly sizing hardware to match the task at hand

Common pitfalls of PC based machine vision that we ensure you don’t fall into:

1. Not considering the long-term support needs of a custom system or having the people in house to support it.
2. Not providing enough sample defects to fully define the scope of the project
3. Not monitoring light intensity over time, which will dimmish and effect image quality

We’ve been to hundreds of plants and seen thousands of projects. We’ve seen the remnants of failed PC based machine vision projects, learned from others' mistakes, made some of our own, and know what it takes to make custom PC based machine vision projects successful.

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.