Operator Interface Panel Supports Filtered Images

Cognex's Visionview CE software can now be licensed and installed directly onto Rockwell and Siemens CE panels, allowing end users to use existing equipment and thereby reducing monitor clutter. New software release Visionview 1.4 also adds the functionality to support filtered images; the ability to view the failed image next to the current image; and additional touch-screen drivers for the Visionview VGA model and Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit.

It offers users seamless integration with factory-floor HMIs, by allowing them to run Visionview on their own Rockwell and Siemens CE panels. Users of Visionview now have a choice of four different platforms. Visionview CE offers all the standard Visionview features and enables operators to view their applications using their existing Rockwell or Siemens CE panels. It can support larger screens while reducing additional monitor clutter. Visionview PC has all the standard Visionview features while providing customers with the flexibility of using their own choice of PC and monitor.

Visionview VGA provides the flexibility by allowing 'control-room' viewing of images and results without being limited by the size of the display. Its adapter supports VGA displays of different resolutions, as well as touch-screen displays. Visionview 700 is a powerful, low-cost operator interface panel that provides password-protected user control to adjust vision tool parameters and regions of interest without requiring a PC on the factory floor. A feature called Last Failed Image View shows the current image and the last failed image side-by-side. This allows end users to compare the current run-time image and the last image that failed within the same view.

Filtered Image View allows filtered images from the camera to be displayed on the Visionview panel. End users can see the tools being applied on the actual filtered image that has been applied from the camera. New serial touch-screen drivers are preinstalled to support various touch-screen panels with Visionview VGA. In addition to the Mitsubishi GOT panels, VVVGA now supports various models of Advantech, Proface, ELO and 3M Microtouch panels.

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