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   We supply Integrated Intelligent Machine Vision Solutions for the following industrial automation applications:

   
   - Quality Control of industrial products  
   - Automatic Sorting and Grading  
   - Automated Machining  
   - Machine Learning and Reasoning  
   - Robot Trajectory Planning  
   - Robust Visual Target Tracking  
   - Geometric 2D/3D Vision  
   - Infrared Thermal Inspection  
   - Melting Process Control  
   

   We try to pursue and observe the legislated regulations of international societies and associations to integrate standard products. Our systems are adopted to work in  automated production lines. In a structured control system, they communicate with other distributed PLC or PC-based controllers through industrial digital networks.

   
   

Machine Vision for Inspection of Industrial Products

   Industrial production lines are equipped with automatic visual inspection workstations in order to qualify the technical specifications of artifacts and defect detection. In the qualification process, visual features of products are examined and controlled with integrated machineries. The inspected features are shape and size, color or texture of plant productions.

   Machine Vision makes the examining process of these features more reliable. It’s also a low cost and high performance solution for quality control.

   In an intelligent machine vision solution, the mechatronic part of system handles  products to be aligned correctly in the field of view of optical imaging devices (camera/scanner). Sequential images are captured by the electronic part of imaging subsystem (frame grabber) and software system processes these images to extract the required features. There are machine learning and test and measurement software modules to make a reliable decision about possible defects. Finally system’s mechatronic controls the actuators to apply the test results. This sequence is arranged in a real-time controlled loop to be executed repeatedly. Kavian Afzar Co. has been designed and developed this solution in the KA-MVIS-1038 system structure:

   

 

KA-MVIS-1038R System Structure

   

Application of Machine Vision in Metal Sheet Quality Control

   Inspecting surface of metal sheets to find and label the pre-defined defects is an example of machine vision application in casting process. The defects of casting are small cavities, crashes,  scratches etc. Inspecting and control panel can classify these defects and label them to grade the plant’s productions.

   

Copper Sheet Defects

   

   Metal sheet surface is captured by cameras and the classified defects of manufacturing or material itself are recognized and labeled. Geometric specification of defects and texture features of metal sheet are archived simultaneously. You should consider that there are some constraints in sampling time related to the camera's frame rate, image processing and decision making periods. The machine vision systems is equipped with ASHALogic 2.0 Advisory system to solve the manufacturing problem.  

   

Automatic Sorting and Grading

   Mechanical mechanisms are used widely in sorting and grading applications. These mechanisms are reliable but not smart enough to make intelligent decisions. Moreover, design of combinational sorting systems is complicated by different requirements of production process.

   Typical tasks of Machine Vision systems are inspecting, grading, sorting, monitoring and guiding in these cases. Therefore a control panel can perform so many duties just by camera sensors and electronic interfaces. There some challenges in optical sorting. For example in fruit grading, vibration and rotation of fruits under field of view of camera is a constraint for reliable sorting.

   

Sorting and Grading of Ceramic Tiles

   Human eye can detect a small amount of color degradation of ceramic tiles when are floored continually. This is a trouble for tile manufacturers that should be take care of their customers' satisfaction.

   

 

Ceramic Tiles Color Inspection

 

   Color sorting of tiles is dependent to diffuse and uniform illumination.  Some optical filters are used to regulate the spectrum of unwanted reflections. CCD sensor of cameras are examined for detectable color regions.

   

Automated Machining

   Welding, cutting, trimming, painting and handling are guided with 2D/3D robot vision solutions. Kavian Afzar Co. has developed a Robot Vision Solution to overcome robot’s trajectory planning. Vision Guided Robots can handle parts and materials in their work space. Expert Robots can perform precise operations that could be a great labor for well trained workers. Vision guided robots carry out the automated machining efficiently with the following advantages:

     - Minimum waste and rework tasks
     - Maximum reliability to well done duties
     - Uniform output results
     - True applied technical standards
     - Working in hazardous environments

   KA2001 provides a stereoscopic view for robot’s path assigning. Actually it is a geometric vision system that provides feedback for the motion and position control of robot.

   

Infrared Thermal Inspection

   Thermal imaging is used as a non-contact temperature sensing method. Kavian Afzar has introduced the Infrashot System as an automatic temperature mapper for Infrared Thermography inspection. It's used in predictive maintenance and condition monitoring test methods. It can be used as a real-time temperature profile processing module too.

   
   

Remapping an Isotherm to different temperatures in a sample thermogram

   
 

Filtered and reduced color images from sample thermogram

   

   Since Infrashot is commonly used in automated examining of thermeograms of heated objects, the annealed metals or ceramics, backed foods, glass meltings, electrical panels, fueled engines and many other heated objects can be inspected by this thermovision software application.  

   
   
   

Please Explore our all products and services to upgrade your plant's manufacturing or QC technology with Machine Vision solutions! Contact us for more technical details.

 
 
 

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