SmartView® Glass

SmartView has become the most trusted inspection system worldwide. With more installations on more lines, SmartView is relied upon by manufactures around the world for web and surface inspection. For many of them, SmartView is the de-facto standard for on-line defect detection, identification, and imaging.

Only SmartView Glass provides advanced inspection technology ensuring superior real-time detection of all glass defects, while our special inspection software can easily be configured to provide unparalleled, automatic identification and visualization of your defects.

Real-time inspection enables faster process correction and better yield optimization.

Our Value

SmartView provides more value to users than any other surface inspection system:

• Maximize yield
• Detect, identify, and visualize defects before value added processes
• Reduce the need for manual inspections
• Provide the reports you need in a form you can use

We have been successfully inspecting surfaces for almost two decades. In fact, SmartView systems inspect over 3 billion square meters of materials every day! We have customers on all continents and more customers worldwide than anyone else in the industry. More companies guarantee their quality with SmartView systems than any other inspection system.

Our Detection

The SmartView Glass system is highly modular, allowing the use of appropriate technology for your application using standard system components. We install appropriate light and camera configurations for each line. Our standard lighting components are configured to detect glass defects in a way that they can be easily classified and identified. Cognex offers the most comprehensive selection of lighting solutions in the industry. For example, the use of LED collimated light allows us to employ our exclusive synchronized-view technology with two sets of cameras looking into the surface from different angles. This means that we can detect your defects in both transmission and reflection and use the combined information to identify the important defects and ignore the rest. Defects like tin can be reliably detected and classified while the numerous dust and dirt that accumulates on the surface can be ignored.  In addition, our collection of thresholding algorithms can be optimized for your particular requirements, all performing on-line in real time. You never have to wait for SmartView results.

Example Defects Found by SmartView Glass:

Filament	Ream	Tin Drip (hot end)	Zebra distortion

Our Classification

The SmartLearn® multi-step classifier is a patented classification tool set for SmartView Glass inspection systems. SmartLearn provides the flexibility to implement classification schemes tailored to your particular process and requirements. The advanced SmartLearn architecture allows the use of various learning classifiers. Combining automatic learning classification with expert knowledge, SmartLearn maximizes the potential of your inspection system for improved product quality, higher production yield, and decreased customer returns. SmartLearn easily differentiates glass defects like bubbles, stones, top tin, bottom tin, ream, and zebra distortions while filtering dirt and waves. All this can be done by merely collecting samples of the defects and allowing SmartLearn to determine the best way to differentiate them.

Classification Examples:

Bubble	Thresholded Bubble Image	Classified Bubble

Our Through-Process Visibility

The Windows^®-based SmartView Glass system, connected to your mill network, provides information for mill-wide users, from the manufacturing floor to the front office.  SmartView Glass uses industry standards like OPC and ODBC to ensure easy integration with other plant, business, production, and quality systems. A real-time operator interface shows current inspection results on-line in real time. The Open Network Inspection Viewer, distributed across the plant network, enables any user to view current or historical inspection results remotely from any step in production. Using SmartView’s open communications interfaces, SmartView can connect to the marker bridge for marking defects, the cutting bridge for cutting the glass into panes, and the allocation system for determining where to cut and what to discard.

On-Line Users

Each user performs a different function within the plant and needs job-specific information. The user interface of the SmartView Glass inspection system is easily configured so that operators, inspectors, process engineers, and production managers have the information they need at their fingertips, when they need it, and in the format that they want.

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