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Online assistance for machine vision
DISL, the Southampton based machine vision company has spent the dark winter months working hard on a new Ecommerce project in partnership with its principle supplier Tordivel.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 10 April 2006
Machine vision UK training dates announced
Training courses are designed for automation companies, process and manufacturing engineers who are considering, or have a remit, to deliver machine vision technology with automation projects.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 29 March 2006
Vision robot carries out electronics inspection
Machine vision desktop robot, with its small footprint is ideal for electronics and instrumentation manufacturers who have labour intensive inspection tasks in their quality control process.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 8 February 2006
Machine vision software to be demonstrated
A series of events to educate and promote machine vision software at various locations around the UK include workshops, training courses, demonstrations and presence at Southern Manufacturing 2006.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 20 December 2005
Vision aids removal of objects from conveyor
Vision system uses a matrix and plots the location of the objects in each cell, passing the cell ID to the PLC which in turn fires ejectors at the end of the conveyor to remove the objects.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 8 November 2005
Training on vision software organised
Half-day training workshops are being organised to cover Scorpion vision software - a PC based application that uses firewire interface to acquire image data from digital cameras.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 2 November 2005
Cardboard optical sorting system for waste
Digital Inspection Systems will be demonstrating the first UK built cardboard optical sorting system at the Waste recycling show taking place at the NEC this week.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 14 September 2005
Courses explain/update machine vision technology
A 'getting started' industrial machine vision course gives overview of PC based vision technology, covering cameras and interfaces, and instructs on machine vision systems design and set-up.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 9 September 2005
Firewire imaging and multicamera concept
Based on Scorpion's firewire imaging and multicamera concept Repant is getting sufficient information from four to six cameras at different angles and positions to solve the company's problem.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 2 August 2005
Benchtop robots work with machine vision
Highly accurate and powerful robot systems used to automate bench top work such as automatic dispensing, soldering, product inspection, can now be equipped with machine vision cameras.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 19 July 2005
Affordable vision speaks in real time
The power of the ubiquitous PC was put to the test recently when a Scorpion Vision Profile was created that output data in real time to an Excel spreadsheet.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 4 July 2005
Machine vision colour matcher watches paint dry
A bsic suite of software tools for machine vision can be configured in a relatively short period of time on Windows based PCs to produce a highly accurate colour matching system.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 29 June 2005
New Scorpion Vision training course
DISL has announced the next Machine Vision training and seminar event, to be hosted at ABB Robotics at Milton Keynes on the 4th and 5th of July 2005.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 14 June 2005
Advanced machine vision software to be launched
What is believed to be probably the most powerful non-programming development environment for vision systems available on a PC platform will be launched at 'Manufacturing North West'.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 1 June 2005
Software supports multiple readers on one PC
Camera based automatic barcode and 2D MatrixCode reader software supports multiple readers on one PC and can be upgraded with the corresponding code sets.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 13 May 2005
Inspection data recorded efficiently
Software product records every quality control or assembly verification check, complete with image snapshot of the subject and processed results tagged with date, time and location.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 4 May 2005
Vision package priced for students
Scorpion Vision software is now available at a heavily discounted price to universities and other academic organisations as well as students.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 27 April 2005
Starter kit introduces digital machine vision
Machine vision starter kit has been introduced to give end users and system integrators an efficient and unique starting point to digital machine vision.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 5 April 2005
Disposable machine vision cameras
Scorpion Vision software is a new generation machine vision technology that utilisies the power of a PC thus reducing the need to invest in proprietary, hardware based industrial vision technologies.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 17 November 2004
Reseller program for machine vision integrators
Tordivel of Norway and DISL of Hampshire, have announced details of their new reseller program for machine vision integrators, production engineering companies and system integrators.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 16 November 2004
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