EyeVision Course (MVC-205)

This is the Primary EyeVision software course.  It covers all of the commonly used aspects and tools of the EyeVision software in all factory built vision units (EyeSpector and PowerEye).  Basic universal EyeSpector and PowerEye hardware aspects are also covered, as well as a condensed overview of other topics crucial to machine vision success (including lighting design and optics).  This is a 1 ½ day course.

This is our main and most popular EyeVision course, which covers how to do automatic inspection applications using EyeVision-powered machine vision, including EyeSpector smart cameras and PowerEye vision systems. This is a 12 hour (1 ½ day) “industrial strength” non-commercial course. Commonly used topics are covered in greater depth, and the more advanced or specialized topics are covered as overviews. There is substantial focus on the use of EyeVision software, and highly condensed sections cover other areas that are crucial to project success. Topics include:

• Brief general overview of machine vision technologies, architectures, evolution and purposes.

• An overview and framework for successful machine vision project implementation. Strategies for mission and application definition that successfully fulfills the mission while avoiding unnecessary cost escalation. Feasibility studies, application review, review of scope questions and related implementation, and project management.

• Basic setup and navigation of EyeVision® software for implementing machine vision applications.

• EyeVision® software tools and their use, including image acquisition, asynchronous image acquisition, using EyeVision® ’s standard filters or custom filters for image processing, image thresholding, defining, processing, sorting, screening, counting regions of Interest, template matching, thresholding, bar code reading, deriving object-level mathematical results (elsewhere), gauging color processing, and color classifications. Creating and passing results of tools as objects, image-level math, and other tools.

• Other EyeVision® system features which are utilized for machine vision applications. Creating and exporting output files and data, networking.

• Implementation of example machine vision applications: Presence verification to check for proper assembly and forming of parts, character recognition, print quality inspection, robot guidance, pattern recognition, gauging, color analysis, surface analysis, and flaw detection.

• Overview of principles and implementation concepts for triggering, and high-speed image acquisition. Overview parallel processing. If requested in advance, a detailed section on parallel processing is added.

• The methods of discrete I/O control.

• EyeVision® software & license media and administration.

• Introduction to EyeVision® capabilities for unusual program flow control, including non-sequential passage/linkage of input and output objects from and to tools, sub-routines and conditional branching.

• Hardware overview of machine vision systems powered by EyeVision® Includes EyeSpector smart cameras and various approaches utilizing FSI pre-tested systems and pre-tested building blocks where compatibility issues have already been resolved. Overview of relevant image acquisition / camera specifications and selection including resolution, speed, and comparison of performance and operational characteristics of monochromatic, color and line-scan image acquisition. Brief overview of image acquisition, I/O hardware functions, plant-floor enclosure ratings, and relevant specifications.

• Machine vision lighting purposes, principles and implementation. This briefly distills and covers the key points of this important and extensive topic. It covers the objectives of machine vision lighting, and how they are often the opposite of just “lighting it up”. Next is an introduction to the fundamental illumination scenarios, their uses and how they are created. This includes the geometry of the workpiece, the imaging equipment and the lighting equipment, and the geometric relationship between these three. Review of types of light sources that are inside lighting products, and the types and terminology of lighting products. Finally, examples are given which combine all of the above principles.

• Machine Vision lens types and selection. Standard and specialized lenses. Brief overview of this extensive topic.

An extensive notebook, EyeVision® CD, and a training course CD with example images, problems and solutions are provided to each participant. The duration of the MV-205 course is 1 ½ days