Imaging
Industrial Imaging
Industrial imaging requirements usually result from a need for more advanced detection and/or inspection. Quality management requirements are becoming more stringent with greater focus on the supply chain. Sustainability responsibility has implications for reducing waste and improving detection of issues earlier in the production cycle. Manufacturing flexibility and adaptability to change is requiring more in-production information.
A comprehensive approach to quality assurance requires reliable traceability data, product consistency and production reliability. It is driving demand for better, realtime and quantitative digital data from automated inline sources. We’re respond to challenges in production based industries through the application of specifically-designed leading-edge, high impact imaging and detection systems.
Breakthrough technologies
We exploit capabilities from the entire range of technologies across the EM spectrum from Gamma and X-ray, to NIR, IR and FIR, to terahertz and more to address specific applications for imaging, detection and non-destructive testing (NDT) systems.
Examples include the inspection of difficult-to-access pipes and vessels through robot-mounted, one-sided imaging technology, the detection of sub-surface cracks through composite materials, and the in-production detection of contaminants and foreign bodies in fluids.
Camera technology
Choosing the right components requires balancing cost against performance, understanding the nuanced trade-offs inherent in achieving the best optical design.
Developing an optimised image capture and image processing system which not only delivers user-friendly data, but manages that data in terms of speed, security and transmission integrity requires comprehensive know-how and specialist expertise.
We select components and design the system to deliver the best possible performance. Our structured, highly technical approach to optical design includes optimising high speed, low-noise, rapid/real time image capture, data processing speed and image processing.
We take into account supply chain reliability as well as performance for critical elements such as cameras, CMOS, sCMOS, CCD, EMCCD, single photon detection, direct detection, scintillation, event-based detectors, image intensifiers, hyperspectral imagers, lasers, diodes, lenses and more.