Alright, the time has finally come. My company is wanting me to install a Omron F-160 vision system. I've played with this thing for about 2 days now and I really had doubts at first, but now I really think this is a cool system. I know its probably been around for some time now, but this is my first look at it. I've tried to get them to look at using them in the past, but the cost at that time was too much.
Anyways, I thought I would post a topic on this, so maybe I could get some heads up on this, when I go to install it. My only concern right now is trying to protect the camera and the back lighting so the operator doesn't hit it while loading the machine with a part. Now, the last thing is what do you recommend when I'm at home sound asleep and I get that dredfull phone call because an operator has accidentally hit the camera and its view is out of range. Machine won't run because the veiw or focus points are now off. I'm going to be the main player in the new vision system and will probably be resonsible for it. I was thinking of just installing an overide switch on the HMI, so if the camera did take a dump, then the night shift crew could just overide, "Turn off the camera" and allow the machine to run without it. What would you do?
Thanks for any input.
Tim
Anyways, I thought I would post a topic on this, so maybe I could get some heads up on this, when I go to install it. My only concern right now is trying to protect the camera and the back lighting so the operator doesn't hit it while loading the machine with a part. Now, the last thing is what do you recommend when I'm at home sound asleep and I get that dredfull phone call because an operator has accidentally hit the camera and its view is out of range. Machine won't run because the veiw or focus points are now off. I'm going to be the main player in the new vision system and will probably be resonsible for it. I was thinking of just installing an overide switch on the HMI, so if the camera did take a dump, then the night shift crew could just overide, "Turn off the camera" and allow the machine to run without it. What would you do?
Thanks for any input.
Tim