Its chief executive officer, William Thrailkill, and his team of 12, create customized machine vision lighting solutions for customers located in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. An established and growing network of manufacturers' representatives and distributors market Advanced Illumination's lighting products.
Lighting plays a critical role in industry.
It is essential that images are clear, consistent and shadow-free to make superior inspections. The lighting component must deal with both the product and the dynamics of the production machine including the placement of the camera, and the speed and reflectivity of the object being inspected. These lights provide illumination for extremely brief bursts of light lasting only microseconds. The modern machine vision system's TV camera takes an image, magnifying it if necessary, of each product in the manufacturing procession. The image is then transmitted to a computer, which uses software to compare the characteristics of the new piece with the model of the ideal product in its memory.