Pepperl Fuchs Industrial Vision Sensor

Industrial VisionImage processing is one of the most crucial and challenging sensor technologies of the future. Until recently, integrating vision sensors into practical applications was difficult and extremely expensive. Today, vision sensors can be implemented in a wide variety of industries and applications, offering cost advantages over standard solutions in difficult sensing environments.

The available devices and systems range from barcode imagers to vision sensors and system solutions that are adapted to the application requirements. The complexity of the solution and the cost of integration vary with each use. Each technology has advantages that are best suited for the application at hand.

As one of the few suppliers of industrial vision systems, we can accommodate a wide variety of image processing requirements for machine builders as well as for unique system solutions in plant engineering. We offer integrated vision sensor solutions that range from freely programmable devices to user-specific, custom-designed devices.For individual systems with demanding requirements, we provide customer-specific system solutions through our subsidiary, VMT GmbH. Our partnership with VMT enables Pepperl+Fuchs to offer the whole range of industrial image processing from vision sensors via smart cameras to a complete system.

With more than 15 years of experience in the field of image processing, the image processing specialists at VMT work together with our customers on their application requirements to provide turnkey solutions for the field of robot vision, 2-D and 3-D robot guidance, path correction, and machine vision. Other vision sensor principles, such as the multi-camera system for error proofing assembled parts, are also impressively proving their efficiency.

Pepperl+Fuchs vision sensors bridge the gap between standard photoelectric sensors and costly machine vision systems with a more powerful and flexible solution. They have been set up for easy installation and operation without programming language. Vision sensors are significantly more efficient and flexible than light barriers, for example, and they are distinctly simpler in design due to the configuration for one special field of application, and thus less expensive than conventional industrial vision systems.

Area Monitoring Sensors

The SmartRunner Detector is optimized for high-precision monitoring of areas and detects even the smallest objects. With this area monitoring sensor, users can easily protect sensitive machine parts and ensure smooth processes. The sensor provides application-specific profile measurement with integrated evaluation, and integration and commissioning is fast and easy.

Profile Recognition Sensors

The SmartRunner Matcher is especially designed for comparison of object profiles and provides application-specific profile measurement with integrated evaluation in a compact housing. Due to its large detection field and easy teach-in of new reference contours, the profile recognition sensor can be quickly adapted to new application requirements.

Profile Measurement

The laser light section sensor LineRunner LR300 allows highly accurate profile measurement using the proven laser light method. The vision sensor is classified as laser class 1. Integrated illumination control allows the LR300 to reliably compensate for difficult color and contrast lines as well as changing surface appearances.