Inspection Systems

quality-inspectionIndustrial machine vision helps improve quality control and customer satisfaction by ensuring product quality through 100% inspection. Modern process require complex image capture and analysis to ensure consistent monitoring of product. Keystone’s broad portfolio of the most technologically advanced cameras and accessories ensure that we have a solution for every task.

If you know what parts you are looking for you can simple fill out our easy quote form. If you need assistance with  designing a sytem or just have some general questions just give us a call at 866-738-4959. We look forward to speaking with you!

Cameras

Today’s vision inspection choices range from simple inexpensive vision sensors and USB cameras to complex line scan and 3D cameras. Regardless of your vision application Keystone Automation has a solution for you from industry leaders Sick, Dalsa, E2V, Mircoscan, Sony, TVI, Sentech, JAI and Basler. In addition to cameras, Keystone Automation carries frame grabbers from Dalsa, Bitflow, and Matrox.

Lighting

Proper illumination of a target is critical to vision success and therefore Keystone carries ring lights, spot lights, bar lights, dome lights, and backlight in LED, halogen, IR (infrared), and UV (ultra violet) models to ensure we have a light to meet your needs. Keystone carries lighting products from industry leading lighting partners; CCS America, Schott Moritex, Metaphase Technologies, Microscan, AI-Advanced Illumination, and Illumination Technologies to ensure that the flexible lighting solutions can be found or developed for even the most challenging application.

Lenses

Industrial vision lenses are developed for a wide array of applications and Keystone Automation has the perfect variety of high performance lenses for every need. We will work our partners to determine your exact requirements and find the lens that will work best for your application. Keystone automation is proud to work with the following partners; Schneider Optics, EO-Edmund Optics, Fujinon, Navitar, Tamron, and Zeiss.

Some Of Our Manufacturers

Sick – Vison
https://www.sick.com/us/en-us/home/products/product_portfolio/vision/Pages/SICK_Vision.aspx
SICK is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sensors, safety systems and automatic identification products for industrial applications. Whether automating factories or optimizing distribution centers, SICK provides cost-effective solutions.
Dalsa
https://www.teledynedalsa.com/imaging/products/cameras/
Teledyne DALSA offers powerful, innovative CCD and CMOS cameras combining industry-leading performance with cutting-edge feature sets and value.
E2V
https://www.e2v.com/products-and-services/high-performance-imaging-solutions/cameras/
With 30 years experience in the professional imaging field, e2v is a key supplier to the machine-vision market. Recognized for the quality of our CCD and CMOS sensors and cameras e2v designs and manufactures the class leading line scan AViiVA®, Diviina® and ELiiXA® camera ranges.
Microscan – Vision
https://www.microscan.com/en-us/home.aspx
Vision – Microscan has technology-leading machine vision hardware and software for virtually any machine vision application, including inspection, gauging, guidance and identification.
Sony
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/mkt-industrialautomation/
TVI
https://www.tvivision.com/home/
TVI Vision is specialized in development and manufacturing of high quality colour line scan cameras. Reliable and durable cameras offer the solution for broad range of application areas, main application area being quality control and sorting in industrial automation. Film scanning, cargo container monitoring and finishing line camera are examples of other application areas.
CCS America
https://www.ccsamerica.com/
CCS is a leading company that boasts top-level market shares in Japan and overseas for machine-vision-use LED lighting. Machine vision is actively utilized for quality control purposes at various manufacturing worksites: images taken by cameras are used to determine success or failure in processes including external examinations, positioning, written character recognition and so forth, and light delivered by lighting products plays an important role in these operations. n these operations.
Metaphase Technologies
https://www.metaphase-tech.com/page/home
For nearly two decades, Metaphase Technologies has been developing products that advance “The Quality of Light” through engineering and manufacture of uniform diffuse high brightness and ultra brightness LED illuminators for machine vision, military, and specialty lighting applications. We boast expertise in engineering flexible lighting solutions for ease of integration into vision systems design. Metaphase LED illuminators currently profit thousands of applications throughout the world including vision guided robotics, automation systems, line scan inspection units, etc across the machine vision industry.
AI – Advanced Illumination
https://www.advancedillumination.com/
Machine vision systems are becoming easier to use, but a software algorithm will never be able to detect flawed parts at 100% accuracy without a quality image to inspect. If you are relying on software to compensate for missing or inaccurate data, then your margin of error increases dramatically and you have an image problem!
IT – Illumination Technologies
https://www.illuminationtech.com/
Illumination Technologies is a preeminent provider of lighting products and product development services Our core competency is electro-optical illumination design, with expertise in product development. We deliver significant value to our customers by collaboratively developing competitive advantage and superior OEM products, both fueled by the diligent pursuit of excellence.
Schneider Optics
https://www.schneideroptics.com/industrial/index.htm
Since 1913, Schneider has had a reputation for supplying high-quality, high-reliability, high-performance optics for OEMs. This tradition continues as we deliver high-resolution lenses for today’s megapixel image processing needs.
EO – Edmund Optics
https://www.edmundoptics.com/
For 70 years Edmund Optics® (EO) has been a leading producer of optics, imaging, and photonics technology. Supporting the R&D, electronics, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and military markets around the globe; EO products are used in a variety of applications ranging from DNA sequencing to retinal eye scanning to high-speed factory automation. Edmund Optics’ state of the art manufacturing capabilities combined with its global distribution network has earned it the position of the world’s largest supplier of off-the-shelf optical components
Fujinon
https://www.fujifilmusa.com/products/optical_devices/machine-vision/
In line with the increasing use of high-resolution CCDs in recent years, even among cameras in the FA/machine vision markets, we offer many models of compact, lightweight, high-resolution, low-distortion lenses including those with a coverage of 6 to 75 mm suitable for cameras of up to 1.5 megapixels and 185-degree omnidirectional fish-eye lenses suitable with cameras of up to 5 megapixels.
Navitar
https://www.navitar.com/industrial/industrial_overview.html
Navitar is the leading supplier of optics, opto-mechanical sub-assemblies and opto-electronic system solutions for machine vision, automation, assembly, imaging, testing, measuring, and inspection. Our optical designs are involved in applications such as semiconductor metrology, electronic imaging, telecommunications, biometrics, photonics R&D, non-contact measurement and biotechnology.
Tamron
https://www.tamron-usa.com/
Tamron has been long recognized as an innovative source for Mega-Pixel Fixed-Focal length lenses for precision industrial applications such as PCB production, inspection machines and engineering devices, affording them valuable insight into industry needs and trends.
Ziess
https://lenses.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/en_de/industrial_lenses.html
ZEISS lenses for technical applications assist scientists and engineers in a wide diversity of applications — from quality assurance to satellite optics