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MVIMPACT-CS
RELEASE 2.2 – PC
VERSION OF THE
SMART VISION
SOFTWARE NOW
AVAILABLE
MECHANICAL
SOFTWARE &
SYSTEMS
Release Version 2.2 of the
“mvIMPACT Configuration Studio”,
or mvIMPACT-CS for short, has
been issued; it comes with a
cascade of new features and is now
also available for use on a PC.
Stable but uninspired – this
describes the German component
distribution market during the
second quarter 2018.
Sales by companies registered with
the Fachverband Bauelemente
Distribution (FBDi e.V.) grew in the
months April, May and June by 5%
(compared with Q2/2017) to 949
million Euros. The order situation
performed better, and with 1.04
billion Euros exceeded the billion
Euro mark once again. With 1.09 the
book-to-bill rate (order intake to
revenue) remained on a high level.
Broken down by technology
the passive components grew
strongest with 14.4% (reaching
184
PECM Issue 34
137 million Euros), followed
by electromechanics (7.7%
growth to 100 million Euros) and
semiconductors (2.8% to 654
million Euros). Power supplies
recorded 13.7% growth to 27
million Euros, and displays lost
4.3% ending at 21 million Euros.
Regarding the breakdown of
sales there is slight changes:
semiconductors 68.9%,
passive components 14.4%,
electromechanics 10.6%, power
supplies 2.8% and others (sensors,
displays, assemblies) 3.3%.
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Until now, users of the
mvBlueGEMINI smart camera
could only use mvIMPACT-CS to
perform the full range of inspection
tasks in a visual, quick and cost-
effective manner if they possessed
programming expertise and
knowledge of image processing.
Using the PC version and with the
help of wizards, inspections can
now also be simply and intuitively
performed using PC and GigE
Vision and USB3 Vision-compatible
industrial cameras as a basis.
With the new “HALCON Script” tool,
which is available as an option, it is
now possible to load and execute
HALCON scripts in mvIMPACT-CS.
Here it does not matter whether
mvIMPACT-CS runs on the Smart
Camera or on a PC.
In addition, three essential
functions have been added to
the “Measure object” tool: First
of all, the distance measurement
between two lines has been
optimized.
The click point for selecting the
second line serves as a reference
point for the measurement,
whereby the measurement location
is clearly defined, even when the
lines are not exactly parallel.
Secondly, the intersection point
of two lines can be used as
the starting point for distance
measurement.
Thirdly, when used as starting
points, the edges of the image are
available to be used for X and Y
measurements.
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