Computer Vision - Business area

OEM Automatic has many years of experience in products for Computer Vision applications. With us, you will find all components needed for your vision system; factory automation, robotics, medical or individual components to embed into your custom project. Our unique range combined with high-quality support and product knowledge makes us the obvious choice when selecting components for your vision project.

Thanks to our unique product range, we can offer the most suitable and cost-effective solution for each application. On top of that, together with OEM Automatics complete portfolio, we can offer one of the automation markets broadest product range. We operate in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland and through sister companies in UK and Finland.

LEADING MANUFACTURERS
The broad and unique product range is made possible by our partnering manufacturers that are specialized and market leading in their respective field. By being our partners’ local organization with full responsibility for sales, we can ensure that you get the benefits of a local distributer but at the same time get access to world leading technology and products.

Cameras

Depending on your application, the most suitable type of camera could be an area scan camera, line scan camera, thermal imaging camera, smart camera or something else. OEM Automatic have over 20 years of experience helping customers finding the right camera. We offer cameras from several of the leading camera manufactures in the world such as Basler, Matrox Imaging, Sony, and FLIR (thermal imaging). We have cameras with all kinds of specifications including resolutions up to 45 Mega Pixel.

Area Scan Cameras
Line Scan Cameras
Smart Cameras
Thermal Imaging Cameras
Network Cameras
Embedded Cameras

3d products

OEM Automatic offers a broad portfolio of 3D-products using different techniques for acquiring the images. Apart from being excellent stand alone products for acquiring 3D data, the products can also be combined with 2D cameras and vision software such as Matrox Design Assistant and Pekat vision for even greater possibilities.

Laser Triangulation
Structured light
Stereo Vision
Time of flight

Industrial Computers

In today’s industries, reliability in production is very important. By using a purpose-built industrial computer without moving parts as for example traditional hard drives (HDD) or fans, you minimize the risk of computer failure. We offer computers from Neousys and Matrox, made for round the clock use in environments with temperatures from -25 to 70 °C and even IP67 protection.

Compact
Surveillance
Vehicle
ShoeBox
Ultra Compact
Weather Protected
Computer Accessories

interface solutions

Whether you are looking for alternatives to replace parts of your current vision system or expanding the capabilities of it, an interface solution may be required. We offer internal and external frame grabbers, expansion cards and interface cards that will make the upgrade easier.

Internal frame grabbers/Interface boards
External frame grabbers
Embedded boards

Software

Whether you are planning for image analysis, bin picking or AI-driven vision applications we have the software needed. For traditional machine vision tasks such as detection, measuring and pattern matching the softwares from Matrox are the best choice. Available for integrations with a large variety of cameras – both 2D and 3D. For bin picking applications using a structured light 3D camera we recommend one of the options from Photoneo together with their own 3D scanners. We have dedicated an own chapter to Artificial Intelligence where the software from Pekat Vision is presented.

Incoil
Matrox Design Assistant
Matrox Imaging Library
Photoneo Bin Picking Studio
Photoneo Locator
Photoneo 3D Localization C++ SDK
Photoneo Anypick
Photoneo Depalletization

LENSES

Depending on the type of lens you use, you get very different image results. We have lenses for all types of applications and budgets from the leading manufacturers.

LED LIGHTING

Selecting a suitable light is an important part of the vision system. We offer many models in different colors and sizes to suit your application.

FILTER

Using the right filter can be the difference between a perfect picture and a completely useless one. We offer a variety of filters for blocking certain wavelengths or for protection against dust and dirt.

ENCLOSURES

We offer high-quality enclosures, both standard and customer-specific, for all types of applications. You can also find a broad range of explosion proof and liquid cooled enclosures that can withstand even the toughest surroundings, as well as enclosures approved for specific environments such as food industry.

proof of concept

In our vision lab, we have all the equipment and experience to solve and propose solutions to vision challenges. We can help our customers selecting the right solution and components for cameras, lenses and lighting as well as confirming feasibility for bin picking and artificial intelligence applications.

TAILOR-MADE SYSTEMS
Proof of concept is all about testing and verifying the solution before the final buying decision is made. In our vision lab we have access to many different cameras, lenses and lights for solving customer cases. We often ask our customers to provide us with real world samples to ensure an accurate result. If necessary, proof of concept studies can also be performed at the customer’s site for an even greater accuracy in the study.

MATROX DESIGN ASSISTANT
For non-AI imaging cases, we use the Matrox Design Assistant vision software based on Matrox Imaging Library. Using Matrox Design Assistant, we can set up a custom vision application for all kinds of advanced measurement. Paired with selection of cameras, lenses and lighting we can provide a proof of concept that can be trusted.

PHOTONEO BIN PICKING STUDIO
Photoneo’s Bin picking studio software is the natural choice for visual guided bin picking solutions. Setting up the picking solution all begins with scanning and identifying the part. As a proof of concept we can scan and localize the parts and optimize for your application or provide point clouds for further evaluation.

PEKAT VISION
When traditional machine vision solutions using measurements are not sufficient, for example when analyzing fabric or organic materials we use the AI-driven Pekat Vision software. A feasibility study here typically consists of training the software with an image set of the objects to be analyzed. All of which can be done in our lab facilities.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The advantages of AI-assisted technology are multifaceted and can nowadays be found in our everyday lives -especially in industrial workplaces. In addition to dramatically boosting and sustaining work precision and efficiency, it also can help to enforce personal safety in hazardous environments. We offer all required components to deploy an AI solution, but in the following section we focus on the computers and software.

HARDWARE FOR TRAINING
Training the system with image and data sets is a very hardware resource consuming task. To do this efficiently, a top-of-the-line PC with fast CPU and GPU is always recommended. We partner up with Neousys to be able to offer a broad range of computers, all rugged and of industrial grade. For AI training, the typical choice would be a shoe box style computer with lots of expansion capabilities such as the Nuvo-8240GC which supports dual NVIDIA® Tesla T4 GPU and Intel® Xeon® E CPU.

ON THE EDGE
While you can use the same PC for inference as for training, there are more dedicated alternatives available for on the edge applications. One reason for selecting dedicated PC’s is to lower the cost in multi-instance applications, another is to have a computer more suited for tough and/or constricted spaces. The NRU-120S, which is powered by NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Xavier™, is a compact and cost efficient, yet very capable choice for on the edge inference. For even more demanding applications the IP67 protected SEMIL series which can be equipped with NVIDIA® Tesla T4 or Quadro P2200 GPU is up to the task.

SOFTWARE
For vision based industrial AI applications, we offer the excellent software from Pekat Vision. With ease of use in focus, it uses its own proprietary focused-learning algorithm which goes beyond deep-learning. Focus-learning works like a human eye - It can focus on specific details and needs only a few images for learning and understanding the task. This means that even from a small data set of images, it can recognize when an object or material is flawless and when it is defective. You can use Pekat Vision to find anomalies, detect and classify defects and check surfaces on materials and objects where traditional machine vision systems cannot.

In the unsupervised mode, the software detects defects which does not have to be specified on beforehand. This means that it is enough to train the software only using images of defect-free objects. In supervised mode the software can be trained to search for and categorize specific defects such as scratches, rust, holes etc.
The inspection results can continuously be used to take further actions using for example an in-line robot. For this, there are multiple options such as command line scripts, HTTP requests, Profinet/TCP connections to PLC’s. For image acquisition, a GenICam compliant camera can be directly connected to the Pekat Vision software.