ibaVision

ibaVision plug-in programs convert visual process information into numerical or logical values. In this way, for example, the spacing, geometry or position of products can be determined and used for quality testing or identification of parts during the ongoing process. In addition, identification features, such as bar codes, numbers or other machine-readable symbols can be captured.

All data and image interfaces that are defined in ibaVision plugin programs are automatically listed and can be flexibly linked to signals in the iba system. Both signal and image information can be used bidirectionally. The resulting values are recorded in ibaPDA. If necessary, process signals which are already available in ibaPDA, can be sent to ibaVision in order to adapt the running image analysis.

Since the image information is synchronized with other process signals, causal relationships can be examined in a later analysis and finally the root-causes of malfunctions can be easily identified. In ibaAnalyzer, signals extracted by image processing, process signals and the images from all cameras are time-synchronized and replayed accurate to the sample.

The introduction of ibaVision v3.0 allows a new plug-in concept to choose the right tool for every job. Initially, ibaVision will be delivered with two plug-ins that work out-of-the-box. The first plug-in provides the HALCON integration, which has already been available in all previou versions of ibaVision. The second plug-in executes Python scripts. This allows using the extensive selection of libraries that are available for the Python programming language for solving image processing tasks.