Does Scorpion Vision have a device independant IO system?

Learn more about Scorpion IO sub-system

Yes – with Scorpion Vision Version X.I we have added a very nice device independent IO system that is easy to configure.

The system supports the following scenarios:

• Mapping the trigger input to another port when input 1 is broken
• Adding another IO Device when device # does have any inputs or outputs left
• Broad selection of IO Modules supported
  • PCI, PCIX, USB and Remote Ethernet IO
• Support for Multiple and different units
• Easy to create illumination strobing output
• Built in statistics
• IO-system can easily be switched when need eg under testing
• Support for device io simulation – no need to connect the actual io device to develope the application

Status Panel

The data panel provides built in statistics.

Event Log

The event of provides an easy to understand log of io-event – invaluable in io system verification.

Is it easy to create an image log in Scorpion Vision?

Read more about Scorpion Image Logger Module

Yes – it is very easy to create an Image Logger with Scorpion Vision Software Version X.

In Machine Vision keeping up to date Image Logs is vital. The integrated Scorpion Image Logger module provides support for all the following purposes:

• Store all or only the error images
  • Can be use for offline improvement of the machine vision system
• Store images by date and time – create a new folder pr week or every hour
• Delete image files older than N = 10 days
• Store images of all products image in a batch in a separate folder
• Create a test image set for development and verification of the vision system
• Create directory and files name reflecting the current dynamic state of the machine vision system
• Turn on of the logging based on an external input defines by a master system – eg PLC or Robot.
• Turn off image logging before the Disk is full
• Stamp every image with serial #, batch # and inspection state for easy retrieval.

All the functionally is available without any programming or scripting in an easy to use graphical user interface.

Click to learn more about Scorpion Image Logging

Can Scorpion log data to files?

Read more – Scorpion Data Logging

With the release of Scorpion Vision Version X we have added a very good and easy to use module to provide dynamic data logging of calculated values and values measured from other input devices.

All functions are provided without any programming or scripting.

Click to check the Scorpion Data Logger Status Panel