Features
Robotic Soldering Vision Systems and Sensors
- High Performance Vision Sensor With Adjustable RGB Lighting
- Presence/Absence Detection of Features, Patterns, Edges, and Circles
- Edge Learning-based Sortation
- Ethernet communication with TCP/IP, Profinet, Ethernet/IP, SLMP, and FTP for saving data
Demo: Solder Quality Inspection
- Vision system can be trained to accept or reject PCBs based on solder quality and presence of defects.
- System can inspect a region containing a single solder pad or multiple pads.
- Train your system to make a confident model.
Vision Sensors VS. Vision System
While both technologies are designed to automate inspection tasks, they serve different levels of manufacturing requirements. Vision sensors are ideal for simple presence checks, positioning verification, and basic pass/fail inspections. They offer a compact and cost-effective solution for straightforward applications.
Vision systems, on the other hand, provide advanced image analysis capabilities powered by AI, enabling complex inspections such as defect detection, dimensional measurement, OCR, traceability, and assembly verification. With greater flexibility, accuracy, and scalability, vision systems help manufacturers address demanding quality control challenges and adapt to evolving production needs.
Vision Sensors
Simple Inspection
- Ideal for presence/absence detection, component positioning, feature verification, and basic pass/fail inspections.
AI-Assisted Detection
- Learns acceptable part characteristics to identify variations, missing features, discoloration, and other visual defects.
Fast & Easy Integration
- Compact, intuitive, and designed for consistent 100% inspection with minimal programming or specialized vision expertise.
Vision System
Advanced Inspection
- Performs complex defect detection, dimensional measurement, assembly verification, classification, and character/code recognition.
AI + Rule-Based Analysis
- Combines AI-powered image analysis with traditional inspection tools for more demanding robotic soldering applications.
Flexible & Scalable
- Supports multiple inspection points and integration with robots, PLCs, and factory automation systems for sophisticated quality control.
Types of Applications
From defect detection to assembly verification, AI-powered vision systems deliver fast, reliable, and repeatable inspections across every stage of the manufacturing process.
Presence Inspection
Verify the presence or absence of components to ensure complete assemblies and reduce quality risks.
Dimension Measurement
Perform precise non-contact measurements to verify critical dimensions, tolerances, and product conformity in real time.
Vision-Guided Robotics
Provide robots with real-time visual feedback for accurate picking, positioning, assembly, and material handling operations.
Identification Inspection
Read and verify barcodes, Data Matrix codes, serial numbers, and text markings for complete traceability and process control.
Appearance Inspection
Detect scratches, dents, contamination, surface defects, and cosmetic imperfections with consistent inspection performance.
Color & Product Type Inspection
Differentiate colors, product variants, and part types with AI-driven verification to prevent mix-ups and ensure production accuracy.
Quantity Inspection
Automatically count parts and components to confirm correct quantities before assembly, packaging, or shipment.
3D Inspection
Capture height, shape, and surface data to detect dimensional variations and complex defects beyond traditional 2D imaging.
Positioning & Alignment
Confirm the correct position, orientation, and alignment of parts to support accurate assembly and automated handling.
Keyence IV Series
Beyond its predecessors. It excels in detecting parts without the need for precise positioning adjustments, ensuring correct part quantities and placements, and accurately identifying and tallying targets even in challenging conditions. Renowned for its simplicity and reliability, the IV Series has been further fortified in the IV4, boasting increased brightness, versatile field-of-view options, and finely tuned built-in hardware that ensures robust performance in varying environmental conditions such as ambient lighting and subtle surface changes. With its enhanced AI tools, the IV4 effortlessly tackles applications that traditional vision sensors find challenging.
Modern AI-powered vision technology can detect components without requiring precise positioning, verify correct quantities and placements, and reliably identify targets even in challenging manufacturing environments. By combining advanced imaging, intelligent processing, and adaptive inspection algorithms, vision sensors deliver stable performance despite variations in lighting, part appearance, surface conditions, and production tolerances. Their ability to learn acceptable product characteristics enables more reliable inspections while reducing the limitations commonly associated with conventional rule-based vision systems.
Features
- Enables reliable 100% inspection of production output.
- Supports a wide range of inspection applications within a single platform.
- Designed for intuitive operation, minimizing the need for specialized vision expertise.
- Delivers consistent and repeatable inspection results.
- Evaluates the entire target surface, maintaining stability even when parts are slightly misaligned.
- Captures clear, high-quality images for accurate analysis and defect detection.
- Flexible setup options allow configuration through a dedicated handheld controller, display monitor, or PC.
AI-Assisted Automatic Teaching and Inspection
The Automatic Teaching Inspection tool learns directly from images of known-good assemblies. By analyzing natural variations between acceptable parts, the system establishes a reference model that distinguishes normal production differences from actual defects. This AI-driven approach closely replicates human visual judgment while delivering greater consistency and repeatability.
System setup is simplified by teaching the sensor with non-defective samples rather than creating complex inspection rules. As a result, stable inspections can be achieved quickly, reducing commissioning time and minimizing the need for advanced programming or vision expertise.
During operation, the IV4 evaluates every inspected part against the learned reference. Color, shape, texture, and appearance characteristics are analyzed at the pixel level, allowing the system to detect irregularities that may not be visible through conventional grayscale inspection methods. Variations such as discoloration, missing features, surface anomalies, and process-related defects can be identified with high reliability.
AI Powered Vision Systems
AI-powered vision systems combine advanced image analysis with traditional rule-based inspection tools to solve a wide range of manufacturing challenges. From presence verification and defect detection to product classification and character recognition, these systems provide a reliable and easy-to-deploy solution for improving quality, reducing errors, and increasing process consistency.
Features
- High-performance imaging with integrated adjustable illumination.
- Detection of features, patterns, edges, shapes, and assembly conditions.
- AI-assisted classification for reliable product differentiation and defect identification.
- Industrial communication support for seamless integration with PLCs, robots, MES platforms, and factory automation systems.
- Fast deployment with intuitive setup and minimal programming requirements.
- Consistent inspection performance despite variations in lighting, positioning, and product appearance.
Case Studies
AI Differentiate
AI-based inspection is trained using examples of acceptable and defective products, allowing the system to automatically identify key differences and deliver reliable detection without complex programming.The learning process compensates for normal production variations, including lighting changes, misalignment, contamination, lot-to-lot differences, print variations, and color inconsistencies, ensuring stable inspection performance. High-speed AI processing enables accurate inspection of fast-moving products across a wide range of manufacturing applications, from electronic components to packaging and pharmaceutical products.
Fiducial Correction
Fiducial correction automatically compensates for variations in part position, rotation, and alignment. By locating predefined reference marks, the vision system adjusts inspection coordinates in real time, ensuring accurate and repeatable results even when products are not perfectly positioned.
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