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ISRA Vision
Company background
Business model
Whenever the limits of human visual perception are surpassed, machine vision
technology is used to inspect welds, surfaces, printed pattern, folded carton,
identify workpieces, guide robots or check completeness. Intelligent systems
are able to learn recurring defects and allow for a systematic rectification,
resulting in improved up-time.
Also, defective parts are not passed on to subsequent manufacturing stages,
thus enabling a 100% quality target in a cost effective way. ISRA Vision’s core
competences (called BrainWARE ®) are due to the combination of soft- and
hardware, incorporating industry-specific process know-how, algorithms to
process vision data and an optimal system design to produce quality data in a
reliable and fast way.
ISRA Vision AG provides systems for industrial image processing using
application-specific modular standard software solutions for surface inspection,
robot guidance, and quality control applications, which are developed,
produced and marketed by the company. The application specific machine
vision systems are focusing on:
• Automation of quality control
• Automation of production
• Yield enhancing production decision intelligence
Reporting divisions
ISRA Vision operates in two divisions:
• Surface Vision Division (82% of 2009/10 sales): optical quality
inspection systems mainly for sheet products such as flat glass, solar,
display glass, paper, plastic, nonwoven and metal. Surface Vision focuses
primarily on surface inspection technology mainly for web materials like
flat glass, solar glass and display glass, foil, plastics, print, metal, paper
and others. These materials are checked for defects during the production
process.
Surface Vision – optical in-line print inspection and documentation
Source: company data
• Industrial Automation Division (18% of 2009/10 sales): Robot vision
systems (2D or 3D) mainly supplied to the automotive, engineering,
automation and general industry. For example, these systems enable a
robot to insert a car windshield glass at a tolerance level of less than 1mm
or to mount a wheel without scratching the car body. The Industrial
Automation division focuses on the automotive and general industries.
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