STEMMER IMAGING

Teledyne DALSA Sherlock is an advanced machine vision software toolkit that can solve a wide variety of automated inspection applications in different industrial sectors. It is easy to install and offers the user great flexibility and efficiency.

The Windows-based graphical design environment provides a rich suite of proven tools and capabilities such as Drag-and-Drop and Copy-and-Paste, as well as tool tips and control functions. Deployed in thousands of installations worldwide, Sherlock offers you the power and flexibility to solve your vision applications in a fast and uncomplicated way.

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Sherlock will help you reduce production costs, increase productivity and ensure customer satisfaction - all at the same time. The present tools are specially designed to meet the requirements of a variety of application areas and to secure a hundred percent control over the production process. In addition, because you are free to use a range of different camera types and interface technologies, your machine vision tool can stay the same, if your inspection needs should change, thus protecting your technology investment.

Tools for any application

• Region Of Interest (ROI) Shapes
  Flexible Area and Line ROI selection: Rectangular, Annulus, Polygon, Torus, Circle, Point, Line, Polyline, Arc, Rake, Spoke, Rainbow, Bulls-eye.

• Preprocessors
  Extensive set of functions that can be applied to a ROI prior to analysis. Preprocessors condition the image for optimal performance of analysis tools.

• Positioning Tools
  Advanced pattern finding tools are used for object alignment and robot guidance. They are tolerant of lighting variation and changes in part position, rotation and scale.

• Measurement Tools
  Precise measurement tools can compute dimensions of a variety of parts and shapes. Calibration tools correct for camera distortion and convert measurement units to real world coordinates.

• Colour Tools
  This new feature in version 7 includes a collection of tools for the analysis of colour images. These tools support the learning of colours for monitoring, classifying, sorting, tracking, and counting objects.

• Analysis Tools
  Extensive analysis tools for finding and counting edges, extracting and analyzing blobs, detecting contrast variation and performing statistical analysis.

• Reader Tools
  Reads and verifies 1D barcodes. Reads, verifies and grades 2D matrix symbologies. Reads and identifies printed, molded or stamped text (OCR).

• Script Tools
  Using our JavaScript based scripting tool, complete with drag and drop instruction editing, you can develop custom formulas or inline and background operations within the application.

• Custom Algorithms
  Unique inspection needs may require a custom tool. Sherlock accommodates this by allowing custom plug-ins.

Flexible user interface

The workspace supports dockable and re-sizeable windows with customisable toolbars. The Windows-based functionality like 'drag-and-drop' and 'copy-and- paste' as well as tool tips, status bars and context menus all allow for the easy development of complex applications. A range of digital and analogue I/Os are supported via interface cards in addition to the connection of different hardware that is supported via Modbus and TCP/IP. Comprehensive data exchange can be performed via serial interface, files or Ethernet communication.

Sherlock 7 also supports the development of custom operator interfaces using Visual Basic 6, VB.Net and all other languages that support Com/ActiveX components. Thus an individual user interface can be designed for any customer and can be customised according to their individual requirements.

GUI Builder

You can now create a custom front end, graphical user interface without any coding skills. This will create a “view into” the Sherlock investigation some control and communication flexibility. Best of all, it comes free with Sherlock! The “Designer” interface is where you create the interface with an intuitive drag and drop interface – this creates a script that is associated to a specific Sherlock investigation. Once completed, an executable file (the “Player”) runs opens up and runs the investigation with the GUI that was created.

Extensive hardware support

Sherlock 7 is specifically designed to meet the requirements of integrators and engineers and offers a rapid method of creating an application with extensive hardware support such as DALSA Vision Appliances or industrial PCs with a frame grabber or direct connection of IEEE-1394, GigE or USB-cameras.

Sherlock as standard supports Teledyne DALSA's range of cameras and acquisition cards. The CVB acquisition engine for Sherlock by STEMMER IMAGING utilises Common Vision Blox Image Manager to acquire images from virtually any camera or frame grabber on the market, including all cameras provided by STEMMER IMAGING. For GigE Vision and USB3 Vision cameras supplied by STEMMER IMAGING the plug-in is licenced free of charge with CVB CameraSuite.

• DALSA Vision Appliances
  DALSA Vision Appliances are compact and robust solutions for wide variety of inspection applications. The simple 'Plug&Play' solutions can be easily configured via Ethernet or by using a keyboard, mouse and monitor. The applications installation software is pre-installed and ready to run.

• Industrial PC environment
  Sherlock can also run within a standard or industrial PC environment where robust 19" housings and state-of-the-art PC components offer a high degree of power and flexibility.

For Sherlock implementations, STEMMER IMAGING offers optimised, CE-certified systems that are built and tested according to the customer's specific requirements.