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Welcome to the March issue of High Speed
News.
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High-speed equipment occasionally produces flawed
products. Manufacturers have
found that 100% inspection has often become a
requirement to prevent poor quality
products from reaching the consumer. However, a
limitation of machine vision is that it
cannot help to improve product
defects caused by high-speed manufacturing problems.
PROBLEM Machine
vision inspects the product to determine if it is bad (to
be
rejected). Machine vision does not tell you how
the product became
bad. As machinery and most mechanical motion moves
too
fast for the
engineer to see, its tempting to turn down the
machine run
to slow down the event to "see" what is going wrong.
This
changes the dynamics of the mechanical event and the
problem goes
away. Go back to the run speed and the problem
returns.
SOLUTION Using
high-
speed imaging to record the fast mechanical problems
for instant slow motion playback allows the
engineer to see,
measure and understand motions too fast for the eye
to perceive.
Read the full article »
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| Slow Motion - With No Camera ! ! |
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For imaging non-cyclic and
intermittant high speed
events, like
impacts, explosions or malfunctions, a high speed
camera is essential.
Some applications however, can be seen in slow motion
with a strobe. Analysing the gap between a door panel
and the bodywork on a car mounted on a vibration rig,
for example.
A stroboscopic light source can be synchronised to
the
vibration frequency, allowing the subject to be viewed
aparently stationery. If a phase shift is applied to the
synchronisation, the vibration can be seen in slow
motion.
The DrelloScope 3009e has both internal and external
synchronisation, and includes a phase shift function to
allow slow motion viewing of cyclic
events. Other applications include production/
packaging machinery adjustment
Find out more about stroboscopes »
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We are on Stand 3018, in Hall 3. Come and see us
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| NEW! MiDAS for HG-Series |
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MiDAS, already established as the most vesatile
software for high speed cameras, has a new version,
which can control the top quality
HG-100K and
HG-LE cameras.
Unitil now, the choice has been
MotionScope PCI, the
mid-range
MotionPro, both available
with MiDAS, or the
high end HG-series cameras, controlled by MotionCentral
Now the HG-series can be ordered with MiDAS,
combining all the benefits of MiDAS, including data
acquisition, various
auto-triggering features and motion analysis with auto-
tracking, with the top quality and specification of the
HG cameras.
Find out more....
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