Scorpion Vision Software is used in a vast variety of industries; automotive, robotics, wood, furniture manufacturing, food, pharmaceutical, packaging, energy and more.

It solves tasks within robot vision, label and surface inspection, assembly verification, quality control, colour identification and high precision gauging.

Compared to a traditional industrial vision approach, Scorpion offers Twice the performance - Half the price. It is designed for skilled Production Engineers, that want to develop and maintain their own vision solutions without having to depend on an expensive Vision System Integrator.

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Download: Scorpion Product Overview - 310 kByte pdf

Scorpion Vision Software is a family of products:

• Scorpion Lite - for simple tasks replacing sensors
• Scorpion Basic - for color processing and assembly verification
• Scorpion Standard - for high precision gauging, robot vision and label inspection
• Scorpion Enterprise - unlimited for demanding multi-camera applications
• Scorpion Maintenance - for maintaining and testing profiles on a separate computer
• Scorpion Image Logger - automatic image capture, database access and image saving

FEATURES

Scorpion Vision Software is packed with features and details making it easy to develop and maintain robust Machine Vision systems without any programming.

Scorpion Vision Software gives the user the choice of a small form factor with the Sony SmartCam or the power of a standard PC system.

One Solution for all Vision Systems.
The system is founded on top of a standard Windows 2000 / XP PC platform - thus a flexible alternative to proprietary vision sensors or custom vision systems.

It is very cost effective benefitting from the processing power of the Intel processors, low cost and high quality firewire cameras and the possibility of connecting multiple cameras to one PC.

Every single feature is specified, implemented, tested and verified based on experience obtained on the factory floor.

Download Product Data, 635 kbyte pdf, to see all the Scorpion Vision Software features

TECHNICAL DATA

Interfaces, camera support, communication, data export, operating system, computer requirements and more.

General:

• Number of cameras: 25
• Number of inspections pr sec.: up to 50
• Communication links: unlimited

Image Source Interfaces:

• USB using DirectX 8.1 or higher
• IEEE-1394 - FireWire PCI/PCMCIA OHCI compliant adapter
• Baumer Optronic Firewire Cameras from version 2.5
• Basler BCAM - version 1.6
• Cognex framegrabber 8xxx CVL 5.3 and 5.5
• Unibrain Fire-I version 1.21, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0
• Files - jpg and bmp 8 bit bw and 24 bit color formats

Camera Support:

• Unibrain`s Fire-i 400, Fire-i cameras
• SONY`s DFW-V500, DFW -VL500, DFWX700, DFW-SX900, XCD-X700, XCD-X710, XCD-X710CR, XCD-SX900, XCD-SX910 firewire cameras
• Allied Vision complete range of Firewire Cameras
• PixelLINK Firewire Cameras
• Logitech and Creative USB Web Cameras
• Imaging Source Firewire Cameras - DMK-21F02, DFK-21F02, DFK-31F03, DFK-41F02
• Baumer Optronics Firewire Cameras
• Generic support for all IIDC 1.30 compliant cameras
• Specific drivers for ADS®, Basler®, Hamamatsu®, JVC®, MicroPix®,OrangeMicro®, PointGrey®, Teli®, Victor®
• General support for all Windows Imaging Devices

Communication:

• TDV Command Protocol: RS-232, TCP/IP
• Profibus DP
• OPC
• RS-232
• Adam IO-modules
• Socket Server and Clients

Data Export:

• Number
• TCP/IP
• RS-232
• HTTP
• File - CSV-format
• Generic ODBC database access to Oracle and MS SQL Server
• Scripting: Any fileformat, Direct Access to MS Word, MS Access and MS Excel using COM

Operating System:

• Windows 2000 SP1 to SP4
• Windows XP - recommended including SP2
• Windows XPe supported for OEM Customers
• Unsupported Windows versions: Windows XP Home, Windows ME, Windows NT

Minimum requirements:

• CPU PIII 400 MHz
• 128 MB RAM
• 10 GB Hard disk
• VGA screen resolution - XGA recommended

Recommended Configuration:

• P4 2.0 GHz
• 512 MB RAM
• 40 GB Hard disk or better
• XGA - 1024 x 764 resolution

Firewire support:

Any Desktop/Portable PC with built-in FireWire support under Windows 2000 or Windows XP. DirectX 8.1 is required under Windows 2000.

Language Support:

English and Norwegian