Automatisk räkning med monokrom visionsteknik
The use of vision applications are growing and the demand for integration and connectivity with other industrial automation control devices is increasing. Some businesses that are using vision technology follow US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) regulation concerning audit trail. This thesis investigates the possibility to use vision technology for counting objects, achieving connectivity and to follow FDAs audit trail regulation. A market survey has been used to select suitable hardware and software to be used in the design of an application that is able to count objects and that uses standard industrial network connection i.e. OPC data access and Microsoft?s .NET components over Ethernet. A test application has been built with Cognex Insight 5400 Smart Camera for image acquisition and Cognex Insight explorer for digital image processing. The human machine interface was designed by using Wonderware?s visualization software, InTouch. A panel PC with touch screen from Wonderware was used during the software evaluation and testing of the application. The conclusion from the factory acceptance test that has been made on the application is that it fulfills the requirements stated above.