Like the rest of the world, 2020 at Advanced illumination did not shape up quite as we had planned. However, through adaptability, our team and the rest of the machine vision industry persevered. Read more for our accomplishments throughout the year and for our outlook in 2021.
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Ai UltraSeal Washdown Lights are sealed, smooth, and durable enough to handle the most intense applications. Check out our UltraSeal video here!
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2019 is coming to a close, and we find that the end of a year provides an excellent opportunity to reflect. This year has brought us new faces, new products, and exciting new opportunities within the machine vision industry. Read on to see what changed for us in 2019 and what we’re looking forward to in the new year!
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Robust vision light solutions often face one challenge: unwanted glare. In this post, we concentrate on how to reduce glare from vision lighting – particularly from a part’s curved, specular surface, which is one of the most common application uses for polarizers.
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Lighting plastic lids for inspection poses many challenges. Because of the variety of surface texture, reflectivity, color, and orientations, finding the correct inspection solution can present challenges that may affect the choice of lighting geometry.
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At Ai, we claim to deliver quality LED lighting solutions to our customers… and we can prove it! Read more about our Quality Testing here. Through stringent product testing, streamlined documentation system, and our ISO 9001 process, we deliver the highest quality, most reliable lighting solutions for your machine vision application.
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Packaging inspection has typically presented a variety of challenges for machine vision developers and integrators alike. This is primarily because of the wide range in types of packaging – materials, colors, sizes, shapes, and textures used.
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We are proud to officially announce a change to the Ai Warranty Policy! We stand behind the quality of the LED illumination products we engineer, and we feel this new warranty displays our commitment to our customers and confidence in the continued performance of our products.
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Determining whether to apply lights in a bright field versus dark field geometry is one of the more difficult decisions facing Machine Vision engineers. Both techniques have advantages and disadvantages: in this blog, we will concentrate on a comparison between the two using common vision applications.
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When selecting individual components for or investing in turn-key machine vision systems, acceptable performance, system longevity, and cost are always high priorities. Other factors you should consider in the earliest stages of designing a machine vision system: thermal management and heat dissipation.
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We are proud to announce the release of our UltraSeal Washdown Backlights. The innovative BL245 UltraSeal Washdown Backlights are IP69K certified and engineered with a sealed, flush surface, making them virtually crevice-free.
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SignaTech (Signature Technology) is Advanced illumination’s proprietary control system that allows our LED illuminators in machine vision systems to operate at maximum output under all operating conditions, while protecting the light head from damage. The SignaTech Control System allows pulsing of certain LEDs up to 50x overdrive currents while still maintaining the highest flux output and longest lifetime of the LEDs.
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