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Machine vision is an integral part of the manufacturing process for many different industries. Manufacturers ensure the safety, consistency and integrity of the products produced through proper inspection, while being assured that defective parts are rejected from the production line.

Over the past several years, there have been some common threads among many of the companies that develop vision sensors and cameras.

At the time of writing, six years have passed since the launch of GigE Vision 1.0. The standard has become one of the dominant interfaces in the machine vision market and continues to grow.

Today commercial machine vision software is classified along two lines: the conventional vision library and the vision-specific integrated development environment (IDE).

Today, 3-D data is required for many measurement, control and error proofing applications. But most people think that implementing 3-D vision is challenging, requiring a lot of experience, time and expense.

The lens is responsible for creating sufficient image quality to enable the vision system to extract the desired information about the object from the image.