Labview and vision inspection

Is anyone using Labview to automate their vision inspection ?
I want to be able to inspect PCB's post reflow semiautomatically.
If so what hardware, drivers, software etc is available ?
Any pointers to information on this subject greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Rick B.
Email: Double the first A or Yahoo instead.

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:32:58 -0500 (CDT), "Jack A."
wrote:
>Rick -
>
>NI sells framegrabbers and image processing software (NI-Vision) which
>will allow you to automate your vision inspection in LabVIEW. Of
>course, you will also need a camera, camera fixture, lighting, etc.
>all dependent upon your unique environment. Our framegrabbers allow
>you to bring the images into your PC to be processed or saved. Our
>driver (NI-IMAQ) comes with the hardware and is also available form
>our website.
>On the image processing side, Vision Builder is a great development
>tool which allows you to interactively design your image processing
>steps and then will build LabVIEW code for you. There is also
>NI-Vision which is the image processing toolkit for
LabVIEW. Here you
>have access to many different algorithms and functions unique to image
>processing.
>
>Check out this website for some other use cases for our machine vision
>tools:
>
>http://amp.ni.com/niwc/imaq/imaqapps.jsp?node=1286
>
>The one titled "Locating features on a printed circuit board" might be
>particularly interesting to you.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Jack Arnold
>Application Engineer
>National Instruments
Thank you.
This information was very helpful. However, I do not believe I have
the time or expertise to develope this in house.
Do you know if there is any intergration with some of the video
inspection equipment offered by companies such as OC White,
Scienscope, Vision Technologies (SuperVision) or others ?
My preference would be to purchase an off the shelf system and then
intergrate it into the Labview enviroment.
If you have any other suggestions or pointers, I would be greatful for
them.
Rick Barry
Manufacturing & Test Engineering
Warner Power LLc

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