DVT Adds Fast, Affordable OCR, Scripting and ObjectFind to New FrameWork 2.1 Software
"The additions we've made to FrameWork 2.1 continue to add ease of use and power to our vision inspection systems," said DVT Chairman and CEO Bob Steinke. "With each upgrade DVT is able to handle more inspections and improve quality for companies in the automotive, electronics, pharmaceutical, injection molding and packaging industries."
The new OCR SoftSensor is an industrial reading tool that provides robust character reading and verification capabilities while offering affordability and speed.
"FrameWork's new OCR SoftSensor is an extremely powerful industrial reading tool that is designed for reading barcodes, serial numbers, labels, product IDs and symbols in the industrial environment," said Dr. Michael Schreiber, Ph.D., Director of Applied Engineering for DVT Corporation. "It is much more powerful and reliable than low-end readers, handles scaled and rotated characters, and is fully trainable to read symbols, foreign language characters and mixed font sets."
Other new and enhanced tools include the SmartImage Sensor Emulator, ObjectFind, ScriptTool and SmartLink support. The new SmartImage Sensor Emulator allows users to run the software offline for product development and educational purposes or even to test and develop applications without impacting the manufacturing process. Plus, the Emulator enables virtual support of an application from any location worldwide!
The ObjectFind SoftSensor is used to learn the shape of a part and locate the part even when there are overlapping, partially occluded or multiple parts in an image. ObjectFind also works well in a wide range of lighting conditions and can be used for robotic control and checking print, logo or graphic quality. Plus, it's easy to use, so it doesn't require a lot of time or training.
"FrameWork 2.1 has powerful scripting capabilities that enable the user to develop specific algorithms and inspection criteria that can control processes and monitor status," said Roger Whyte, Northeast Regional Manager for DVT. "This offers significant flexibility in solving any problem on a manufacturing line without high levels of programming."
A similar Background Script enables the SmartImage Sensor to monitor a process and continuously adjust for changes. "The benefit to the user is that it provides supervisory intelligence over run time inspections," said Whyte.
Finally, FrameWork 2.1 also increases the support available to DVT's newest hardware product, the SmartLink. SmartLink offers a manufacturing facility the ability to display an image from a SmartImage Sensor without the use of a PC. The unit allows for networking of up to 16 SmartImage Sensors per SmartLink for an extremely cost-effective system with significantly less complexity and hardware costs.
FrameWork 2.1 also includes DataLink, Blob Analysis, Precision Measurement, Math Tools, 1D/2D Code Reader, and Template Matching. It is an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn Windows®-based software that is backward compatible, upward migratable, and will soon support foreign languages. DVT offers free training to customers and interested parties at its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and all upgrades are free to users and downloadable from the "Support" section of DVT's website at www.dvtsensors.com.
DVT SmartImage Sensors are CCD-based sensors that can perform automatic identification and data capture by reading bar codes to deliver part tracking and inventory control, communicate coordinate information to robot and motion controllers for positioning, and report inspection results to SPC software packages for quality assurance. Since 1991, DVT Corporation has been the sole licensee of SmartImage Sensor Technology. DVT's doctorate level engineers continue to upgrade and enhance the technology in use at many Fortune 500 companies. DVT is the De facto standard in automated on-line inspection.
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