FEBRUARY 12--ipd (Billerica, MA;www.goipd.com), the intelligent products division of Coreco Imaging Inc., has named Firstsight Vision Ltd. (Tongham, Surrey, UK) as the UK distributor of its complete line of user-friendly machine-vision solutions for manufacturing end users and system integrators. "ipd's product lines fill an important niche in our range of offerings, enabling us to provide easy-to-use, low-cost machine-vision solutions to users on the plant floor," said Mark Williamson, cofounder of Firstsight Vision. "We look forward to building a strong relationship with ipd, as we have with its parent company, Coreco Imaging, during the five years that we have carried the company's frame grabbers and development software for OEMs."
ipd's product line includes Vision Appliances--user-friendly solutions designed for specific tasks, such as gauging or detecting labels, that end users can install and run within minutes; NetSight--a line of pre-integrated vision systems that incorporate ipd's Sherlock software and all of the necessary hardware for industrial quality-assurance and inspection applications, saving end users time and money; and Sherlock--a Windows-based, "point-and-click" software environment that simplifies the development and deployment of machine-vision solutions.
Sherlock is offered in two versions to meet each users' application needs and price points: Sherlock Essential, an entry-level, low-cost package that includes the most commonly used machine-vision features, and Sherlock Professional, the industry-proven, fully-featured version of the software.
