Sheri Macdonald

The Role of Magnification in Selecting Machine Vision Lenses

Because a polarizer cuts incoming light by roughly half, exposure time or illumination intensity usually needs to increase to maintain the same signal level. In practice this can add anywhere from a few milliseconds to tens of milliseconds per frame depending on the sensor and lighting upgrade chosen, which is rarely significant for stations already […]

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The Importance of Signal Integrity in Machine Vision Components

A third and often skipped stage is thermal cycling validation, since connector contact resistance and cable dielectric properties both shift with temperature, and a system validated only at room temperature may develop marginal signal integrity once ambient temperatures climb during summer production runs or drop near loading dock doors in winter. As one systems integrator

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