How many times have you come in to work only to be greeted with the cry, “The vision system’s down on line 3 !”? You put down your coffee, pick up the safety glasses, and wander out to see what’s going on. Typically it will take 30 seconds to discover that the image is out of focus, so you climb up onto the machine, adjust the lens, restart the machine, and go back to your desk.
Now how is it that the image went of out focus? Perhaps there’s a nighttime vibration that rotates the lens just a few degrees, or could it be that there’s a vision expert working the late shift? I never cease to be astounded by the number of people who think that because they use a camera at home they know how to “improve” a vision system. They don’t mess with the CNC programs, or try to improve the injection mold tooling, so why do they mess with my cameras?
Clearly I’m not the only one who suffers this problem, because agp (standing for Allison Park Group) offer a line of camera enclosures providing protection from “dust, dripping water, idle hands”.
In fact they sell an enclosure to protect just about every camera from every hazard except a direct nuclear strike. Sure, at $400 or more they’re not cheap, but it’s a lot less expensive than replacing a camera and lens every few months.
Protect your vision equipment from environmental hazards, and keep the tweakers out at the same time. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did.
Now how is it that the image went of out focus? Perhaps there’s a nighttime vibration that rotates the lens just a few degrees, or could it be that there’s a vision expert working the late shift? I never cease to be astounded by the number of people who think that because they use a camera at home they know how to “improve” a vision system. They don’t mess with the CNC programs, or try to improve the injection mold tooling, so why do they mess with my cameras?
Clearly I’m not the only one who suffers this problem, because agp (standing for Allison Park Group) offer a line of camera enclosures providing protection from “dust, dripping water, idle hands”.
In fact they sell an enclosure to protect just about every camera from every hazard except a direct nuclear strike. Sure, at $400 or more they’re not cheap, but it’s a lot less expensive than replacing a camera and lens every few months.
Protect your vision equipment from environmental hazards, and keep the tweakers out at the same time. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did.
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