Web Changes
This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've
visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.
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Phoenix Imaging has adopted a new logo design for the
automation products company. The new logo is brighter in color and more
compact. The three colors of the new design represent components, systems
and service branches of the company. This is third time that Phoenix
Imaging has elected to use a new logo since the company started in 1985.
MIB-50™ Manual Inspection Booth
Just released the long awaited MIB-50™ tabletop manual
inspection booth. This product is designed for customer's that have
exacting required for control lighting in the inspection process. The
MIB-100™ has long been the standard by which manual inspection booths have been
judged and many of the features found in the large unit are supported in the
tabletop version.
- Phoenix Imaging receives US Patent for
"Advanced Surface Inspection
Technology for the Detection of
Porosity and Surface Imperfections on
Machined Metal Surfaces".
Phoenix Imaging has been issued US Patent 7,394,530 B2 on
July 1, 2008. The technology implements a unique illumination technique that
reduces the effects of surface texture created by the machining process but
enhances the surface abnormalities. This technology is extremely useful in the
detection of porosity that is often found on machined aluminum components.
The technology allows the customer to assign multiple
inspection zones on a surface and apply a separate inspection criteria to each
of them. The inspection zones are aligned to each new component using
manufacturing datum. In addition the technology allows the customer to measure
the dimensions of key feature and measure the position of the features with
respect to the datum. Phoenix Imaging refers to this new technology as VCMM or
“Virtual Coordinate Measurement Machine”.
To determine if this new technology is applicable to your
process or application contact Phoenix Imaging sales or a local representative.
For more information on this unique inspection equipment see "Porosity
Inspection".
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PIMTP™
- PHOENIX IMAGING
Releases Phoenix Imaging's CNC-TSA,
"Broken Tool
Detection System" (BTDS) for CNC Machining Centers.
- The latest Phoenix Machine Vision Sensor is designed specifically
for the high volume automatic-load CNC Machining
Centers that need to protect production against the use of damaged machine
tools.
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- The technology has received Patent Protection (US
Patent #7,266,420)
for the automatic machine vision inspection of machine tool profiles.
The system identifies broken and damaged machine tools by comparing tool
characteristics to that of an acceptable tool that is stored in computer
memory. The system will even detect the improper position of a tool in
a holder. The most advanced tool inspection technology available
today. Now offering special licensing arrangements with CNC
manufactures.
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- ShaPix®
3-D Surface Analysis System
Phoenix Imaging now represents the latest technology in
Digital Holographic High-Definition
Defect Detection & Metrology Systems
ShaPix®
technology is used to precisely measure the surface topology (depth (z-axis)
measurements) on flat structures. The primary use is to determine flatness
over large area such as the deck face on engine blocks, heads, transmission
plates, engine components where seal integrity is critical.
Imagine using millions of laser micrometers to examine a
surface and then map the information so that it can be interrupted visually.
The use of millions of laser micrometers would not only be cost prohibitive but
impractical to implement. The ShaPix® technology provides a
feasible alternative to very slow contact methodologies with better accuracy.
This exciting new technology has required millions of dollars of investment and
many man-year's of development to complete. This is not an
inexpensive vision solution with basic solution costing >$250K.
Pseudo-color image of ShaPix data map of engine block
deckface.
However, the result is impressive and it provides insight
into industrial applications that have not been possible to date. Contact
us and we will be happy to discuss the potential of your application. For
additional information see the following link
ShaPix® Specifications.
SHARP
IV-S210X High Resolution Compact Machine Vision System
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