Coreco teams with TELI to develop high-speed inspection system
JULY 28--Coreco Imaging (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.imaging.com) has partnered with Tokyo Electronic Industry Co. Ltd. (TELI; Hino-City, Tokyo, Japan; www.teli.co.jp/english/index-e.htm), a Toshiba subsidiary that develops and manufactures electronics and systems for industrial use, to design a high-speed inspection system that provides 100% reliability in consumer durable goods inspections. "This inspection system opens up a new and largely untapped market for Coreco Imaging," said Keith Reuben, president and CEO of Coreco Imaging. "Manufacturers of consumer durable goods--such as food, health, automotive parts, and safety products--require 100% inspection reliability and quality assurance of the products manufactured on their high-speed lines. Machine vision has not been widely implemented in these applications because it could not guarantee this level of performance. However, the new TELI camera was designed to perform beyond the scope of current bus limitations, making the Coreco Imaging/TELI system capable of delivering 100% reliability on high-speed manufacturing lines."
The new inspection system consists of a Coreco Imaging X64-CLP frame grabber, the latest addition to the X64-CL Series of Camera Link digital frame grabbers for the 64-bit PCI bus, and a TELI high-resolution, high-speed CMOS camera (CSB-1000) that was designed for the X64-CLP board. With acquisition rates of 640 million pixels per second, this high-speed inspection solution is the fastest available.
In addition to the consumer durable-goods market, the new inspection system is ideal for use in semiconductor manufacturing, packaging, electronics assembly, continuous web inspection, and other applications that demand highly reliable, high-speed inspection.
TELI's CSB-1000 uses a CMOS sensor, which performs 443 frames/s at 1280 x 1024 pixels and 1722 frames/s at 640 x 480 pixels. In addition, the CSB-1000 features Window Of Interest and Dual Slope exposure for high-dynamic range.
The new inspection system is available immediately from TELI.