Visual inspection and recognition of products in manufacturing is becoming more important because the demands on quality and production speed are increasing. The advantages:

• Increased productivity
• Reliable, automatic visual inspection saves time and costs
• Optimization of the material flow
• Reduced machine standstill times

The intelligent SIMATIC MV420, MV440, VS 120 and VS 130 vision sensors have been developed especially for application-specific image processing. Thanks to their user-friendly operation, no special image processing knowledge is required since the intelligent vision sensors are trained rather than programmed.