Telecentric lenses
Telecentric lenses represent the core business for Opto Engineering: these products benefit from two decades of effort in progressive Research & Development, resulting in a wide range of part numbers for a diverse and ever-growing number of applications.
To help you navigate our extensive portfolio and select the perfect optics we have devised the following lenses classification:
- Classic: standard industrial design
- Compact: optimized to reduce the footprint of vision systems
- Coaxial: featuring an integrated coaxial illumination
- Flat: special design for line scan applications
- Multi-mag: lenses with multiple magnifications for maximum flexibility
- Optical benches: pre-assembled optical bundles
- Specialties: telecentric optics with liquid lenses, UV lenses and other specialties
360° view lenses
One of the most recurring needs in the machine vision industry is to be able to fully inspect an object with as few cameras as possible.
This request is becoming more and more common in a variety of markets, like the beverage, pharmaceutical and automotive industries.
Opto Engineering® designed a line of incredible 360° optics where one image is enough to view the top and side of an object or the inside of a cavity.
Most of these special optics are unique designs patented by Opto Engineering®, with exceptional build quality and unmatched optical performance.
Macro & Fixed focal length lenses
Macro and fixed focal length lenses are the perfect optical solution for many applications in machine vision. Macro lenses are the Opto Engineering® answer to the need for accurate close-up imaging, while fixed focal length lenses provide the flexibility needed for general purposes solutions.
Macro lenses can perform close–range inspection tasks very effectively with impressive optical performance in terms of resolution and distortion. Like all our products, these optics are built to be deployed in industrial environments: their compact form factor, optical capabilities and excellent value make the Opto Engineering® macro lenses the ideal solution for a wide range of machine vision systems. Opto Engineering® family of fixed focal length lenses comprises many optics with special features, in addition to the most common types of optics used in machine vision: we offer a wide variety of fixed focal length lenses for small, medium and large detectors.
Infrared & UV lenses
Illumination outside the visible spectrum is used in a wide variety of sectors including defense, security/surveillance, industrial, medical and R&D. Applications include tracking/targeting systems, predictive maintenance, monitoring of high temperature industrial processes, thermography, flame detection, quality control / inspection.
Opto Engineering® offers a wide variety of high-resolution IR optics for both cooled and uncooled IR cameras spanning all IR spectral bands. Our IR optics feature large field of view and low distortion and can be equipped with custom mount interfaces.
MWIR and LWIR thermal series also include HCAR coating for use in harsh environments. Our offer also includes C-mount lenses for up to 1” detectors, optimized to work with ultraviolet illumination (365 nm) for high quality reflected UV imaging application.
LED Illuminators
Illumination is a critical part of every machine vision setup: proper choice of lighting color and geometry can effectively suppress or reveal specific features of an object, leading to simple and accurate image processing.
Opto Engineering® offers a wide range of illumination solutions including ring lights, dome illuminators and a unique space-saving lighting system complemented by specific high power/strobe controllers. The Opto Engineering® illuminators family provides innovative and robust lighting units, designed to deal with fast-moving objects of various sizes and surface finishes, such as highly reflective or curved samples.
LED Pattern projectors
Opto Engineering® LED pattern projectors have been designed for 3D profiling/reconstruction and for the measurement of objects with complex structures or inclined planes.
They are successfully used in a variety of applications like quality control in food and packaging to check for correct volume, reverse engineering, dimensional measurement of electronic components, planarity control of products, robot guidance for pick and place and alignment applications.
When compared to laser emitters, LED technology ensures more homogeneous illumination in addition to sharp edges and no speckle effect.
Many 3D machine vision applications require structured light to be projected onto inclined surfaces, i.e. at a certain angle from the vertical axis. In such cases, the focus is maintained only within a small area close to the centre of the field of view and the rest of the image shows relevant defocusing, thus making 3D measurement inaccurate.
For this reason, our family of pattern projectors includes special projectors equipped with a highprecision tilting mechanism that allows the pattern of the light source to meet the Scheimpflug condition so that the projected light is properly and evenly focused across the entire sample surface.
All Opto Engineering® LED projectors feature a wide selection of interchangeable patterns. Furthermore, the size of the projection area can be easily modified by interchanging different 2/3’’ C-mount lenses. To achieve the best results we suggest to use bi-telecentric lenses or zero distortion macro lenses.
KITs
Area Scan Cameras
Thanks to their high versatility and ease of use, area scan cameras are the most employed in industrial automation with a wide variety of applications that ranges from fast in line inspection to high precision metrology.
With many years of experience in the machine vision industry, Opto Engineering® offers a complete portfolio of high-performance cameras to answer all your needs: following our driving principles, we provide robust, compact, high image quality products for industrial applications including measurement, high-speed inspection, but also security and much more.
Machine vision software
Opto Engineering® machine vision software products offer user friendly tools which allow vision engineers to easily solve new challenges.
Whether you’re looking for a general purpose developing environment such as FabImage Studio Professional, or more application-specific GUIs like Horus, dedicated to metrology, we have the product that suits your needs!
Machine vision libraries
Opto Engineering machine vision libraries are the perfect choice for advanced users who require complete freedom in creating their own software.
Our products encompass industrial-grade tools such as the functions part of FabImage Library Suite, together with application-specific algorithms such as TCLIB and 360LIB, dedicated to the optimization of telecentric and pericentric setups.
HR area scan cameras
COE High Resolution Area Scan Cameras are purpose built for inspection applications by utilizing the highest resolution sensors available.
From 29 megapixels to 71 megapixels, we provide cameras that will do the job.
With many years of experience in the Machine Vision sector, Opto Engineering® offers a series of high resolution, high performance cameras to answer your needs.
COE HR AS cameras are designed to work in harsh and demanding environments, continuously providing outstanding images.
These area scan sensors are 3-point mounted for edge-to-edge sharpness and flatness across the entire image. Additional features include: low smear, blooming suppression, 12-bit data paths, advanced triggering and built-in detectors that analyze camera performance, and image processing to remove sensor defects. Combined with Opto Engineering® lenses and illuminators, we can assist in building a fast, reliable and cost-effective system.
Line scan cameras
Line scan cameras are usually employed when moving continuous materials that need to be checked, that is for the so-called web inspection, but also when long or large samples are involved. In fact, although a little less simple and more technically demanding with respect to area scan ones, line scan cameras represent the ideal solution for such kind of applications.
Opto Engineering® offers a series of high-resolution line scan cameras to solve the most challenging applications: COE HR LS cameras feature 8k and 16k CMOS sensors that combine quality and speed.
Our cameras are available in a monochrome version, ideal for document scanning, printing and packaging applications, inspection of large flat panel displays and wide-area scanning in general. Moreover, the Camera Link interface guarantees a fast and reliable output that makes these cameras suitable for high-speed systems.
ALBERT®
ALBERT is a complete and independent unit for visual inspection,based on the most advanced artificial intelligence techniques.
ALBERT learns the characteristics of a product directly from the production line and autonomously assesses its quality. ALBERT is very simple to use and does not require complicated programming procedures by experienced users, so it is quickly ready to control new products with different characteristics.
No traditional machine vision system is able to analyze complex objects or products with high variability as simply as a human operator would: ALBERT, on the other hand, interprets the concept of "quality" just like the fastest and most trained of your quality control operators. ALBERT is able to adapt to the production requirements of the moment since its “severity” level can be increased or decreased at the touch of a button, thus loosening or tightening the product acceptance criteria.
Each time, ALBERT chooses autonomously which will be the features to monitor that best describe the quality of your products. At any
time and with a simple click, ALBERT can learn how to sort a new product or adapt to changing production conditions.
PENSO®
PENSO® is an artificial intelligence-based computational unit for imaging applications. PENSO® self-learns the expected features of an object by simply looking at a small series of samples, regardless of the possible presence of defective product in the midst. Once trained, PENSO® will start operating autonomously and warning you if something unwanted happens.
Object modeling, often very difficult or even impossible is therefore no longer needed; moreover, you are not asked to define possible object variations or defects
from the beginning, usually impossible. Instead, as a human operator would do after observing some samples, PENSO® understands what will be considered normal
and acceptable from now on. Since neither modeling or programming is needed, with just some elementary configuration tools you can immediately understand if an application is feasible or not and really save a lot of time. Then, with minimum additional effort, you can fine tune the application and make it fully working.
Accessories
Although accessories are often considered optional, they are in fact essential in many applications to efficiently use a product or even to enhance its performance.
Opto Engineering® extensive range of accessories has been designed and selected to ensure hassle-free and quick integration of our imaging components into your vision system.
Our accessories perfectly complement our product range and have been specifically tested in combination with our products to maximize performance.
Our selection includes mounting mechanics, filters, protective windows, first surface mirrors and beam splitters, calibration patterns, projection patterns in addition to strobe controllers for our LED lighting and stepper motor controller.
