Improve your visual quality inspection process

Neurala’s Vision Inspection Automation (VIA) software helps manufacturers improve their vision inspection and quality control processes to increase productivity, providing flexibility to scale to meet fluctuating demand. Easy to set up and integrate to existing hardware, Neurala VIA software reduces product defects while increasing inspection rates and preventing production downtime – all without requiring previous AI expertise.

How Neurala’s Vision AI software works

Understanding what your Vision AI is “seeing”

Neurala’s Explainability feature highlights the area of an image causing a vision AI model to make a specific decision about a defect. With this detailed understanding of the workings of the vision AI model, manufacturers can build better performing AI models that continuously improve processes and production efficiencies.

Multiple inspection points on complex products
Neurala's Multi-ROI (region of interest) feature helps ensure that all components of particular interest are in the right place and in the right orientation, without any defects. Multi-ROI can run from a single inspection camera, which dramatically reduces the cost per inspection, without slowing down the run time.

Innovation that’s fast, easy and affordable

Neurala VIA - Beyond machine vision
Defects that are easy for a human to see can be difficult for machine vision to detect. Adding vision AI dramatically increases your ability to detect challenging defect types such as surface anomalies and product variability. Neurala VIA helps improve inspection accuracy and the percentage of products being inspected. You can build data models in minutes, then easily modify and redeploy for changes on the production line.

As e-commerce expands at phenomenal rates, handling shipment is proving to be a herculean task. Effective supply chains that process more and deliver in less time are critical to managing consumer expectations and capitalizing on this upward trend.

JustPick Key Advantages

AI-powered vision systems help robots ‘see’ so they can perform tasks for order fulfillment much more cost-efficiently. With JustPick, robots no longer need to be trained to recognize objects, allowing them to sort and handle large quantities of unknown SKUs on the fly.

Process large, random inventories without programming

Automated sorting to increase throughput

Reduced overhead costs & uninterrupted operations

Compatible with over 20 major robot brands

JustPick Key Features
Created for the e-commerce picking process, JustPick’s custom-built functions help robots identify and pick packages of different shapes and sizes autonomously.

‘Unknown’ picking
JustPick eliminates the need for robots to ‘know’ what objects are in order to pick, allowing large inventories to be processed without having to learn each SKU one by one.

Intelligent gripper

Upon locating an item, JustPick automatically configures the optimum gripping approach, and if needed, adjusts the number of active suction cups to ensure a secure grasp.

Easy integration
JustPick is compatible with over 20 robot brands, numerous PLCs, and 3D cameras including ToF, structured light, and stereo vision.

Faster set up
No programming is required to operate JustPick. Our user-friendly UI allows users to drag-and-drop preset function blocks to create their unique workflow.

Vision-guided robot solution combines 3D-vision with machine learning

Increases manufacturing flexibility and efficiency

Solmotion is a system that automatically recognizes the product’s location and makes corrections to the robot path accordingly. The system reduces the need for fixtures and precise positioning in the manufacturing process, and can quickly identify the product’s features and changes. This helps the robot to react to any variations in the environment just as if it had eyes and a brain. The use of AI allows robots to break through the limitations of the past, providing users with high flexibility, even when dealing with previously unknown objects.

Solomon’s AI technology combines 2D and 3D vision algorithms, alternating them in different contexts. Through the use of neural networks, the robot is trained not only to see (Vision) but also to think (AI), and move (Control). This innovative technology was honored in the Gold Category at the Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards. In addition to providing a diverse and flexible vision system, Solmotion supports more than twenty world-known robot brands. This greatly reduces the time and cost of integrating or switching different robots, giving customers the ability to rapidly automate their production lines or quickly move them to a different location. This makes Solmotion a one-stop solution that provides system integrators and end-users with a full range of smart vision tools.

Through a modular and intelligent architecture, Solmotion can quickly identify product changes and make path adjustments in real-time, regardless of any modifications made to the production line. This results in a more -flexible manufacturing process while improving the production environment to become a zero mold, zero inventory smart production factory.

Solmotion Key Advantages:

Cuts mechanical tooling costs
Saves the costs of fixture and storage space
Reduces changeover time
Decreases the accumulated tolerance caused by placing position

Solmotion Key Features:
CAD/CAM software support (offline instead of off-line)

Graphical User Interface, easy for editing program logic

Automatic object recognition, and corresponding path loading

Automatic/manual point cloud data editing
User-friendly path edition/creation/modification

Project Management/Robot Program Backup

Support for more than 20 world-known robot and PLC brands

ROS automatic obstacle avoidance function

AI Deep Learning tool

Neural networks can be used to train the AI to learn to identify object features/defects on the surface of the items. Comparing it to traditional “rule-based” AOI, AI inspection application scenarios are wider, smarter, and do not require deep technical knowledge. Together with the Solmotion vision-guided robot technology, a camera mounted on a robot can perform just like human eyes and inspect each detail on the surface of the objects.

Applications :
Painting defects and welding inspection, mold repairing, metal defect inspection, and food sortation.

3D vision positioning system

The objects can be placed randomly without the need for precision fixtures or a positioning mechanism. Through the use of visual recognition of partial features, AI can locate the position of the parts in space, generating their displacement and rotation coordinates in real-time, which are then fed back to the robot for direct processing. Also, to achieve flexible production, the system uses a path-loading function based on an object feature recognition function. The software can also generate the robot path through off-line programming, making it a suitable solution for Hi-Mix or Low-Volume, mixed production scenarios.

Applications:
Various Robot Machine Tending Applications.

Robotic path planning auto-generation

There is no need to manually set the robot path, Solomon’s AI will learn the edge and automatically generate the path planning. The processing angle can be adjusted to “vertical” or “specified” according to the situation. The surface-filling path generating and corner path optimization functions are also available. Supporting more than 20 robot and PLC brands; our solution is suitable for products that are time-consuming, Hi-Mix or Low-Volume, and highly variable in path teaching.

Applications:
Cutting, Gluing, Edge trimming, Painting.

3D Matching Defect Inspection

The software will perform a comparison between the generated 3D point cloud data of the object and the standard CAD in real-time, generating a report according to the pre-set difference threshold. The report will contain the differences in height, width, and volume data. This data can also be used to automatically generate the robot path. This solution is suitable for object matching and deformation compensation applications.

Applications:
Inspection,Trimming,Repairing,Milling, and 3D Printing.

A NEW GENERATION OF MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE

MVTec MERLIC is an all-in-one software product for quickly building machine vision applications without any need for programming.

It is based on MVTec's extensive machine vision expertise and combines reliable, fast performance with ease of use. An image-centered user interface and intuitive interaction concepts like easyTouch provide an efficient workflow, which leads to time and cost savings.

MERLIC provides powerful tools to design and build complete machine vision applications with a graphical user interface, integrated PLC communication, and image acquisition based on industry standards. All standard machine vision tools such as calibration, measuring, counting, checking, reading, position determination, as well as 3D vision with height images are included in MVTec MERLIC.

MERLIC 5

MERLIC 5 introduces a new licensing model for greatest possible flexibility. It allows customers to choose the package – and price – that exactly fits the scope of their application. Depending on the required number of image sources and features (“add-ons”) for the application, the packages Small, Medium, Large and X-Large as well as a free trial version is available. This new "package" concept replaces the previous "editions" model.


With the release of MERLIC 5, MVTec’s state-of-the-art deep learning technologies are finding their way into the all-in-one machine vision software MERLIC. Easier than ever before, users can now harness the power of deep learning for their vision applications.

MERLIC 5 includes Anomaly Detection and Classification deep learning technologies:

The "Detect Anomalies" tool allows to perform all training and processing steps to detect anomalies directly in MERLIC.
The "Classify Image" tool enables using classifiers (e.g., trained with MVTec's Deep Learning Tool) to easily classify objects in MERLIC.

Random bin picking solution focused on the performances and predictability.

Moonflower Blue is our random bin picking solution. A bin picking process can be explained as follows: a robot (composed of six or more axis) has to pick from a box an object in a stable way to place it properly.

It generates trajectories to pick parts in a bin with a robot. Products are localized using 3D data provided by one of the supported scanners: fast and robust matching algorithms are exploited to find the 3D position and orientation of an object starting from its CAD model.

Moonflower Blue generates a picking trajectory starting from the pose of a localized product, checking for collisions between robot and surrounding environment. It can be configured to use multiple grippers and different picking strategies. In addition, when shape and distribution of products inside a bin are very complex, an automatic extraction strategy can be defined for a product model to allow the robot to take out the grasped part in a clean way.

Moonflower is focused on the performances and predictability of its solutions, as opposed to the latest year's trend in bin picking with the claim of „easy to use”.

Self-developed by HIKROBOT, VM is a machine vision software that is committed to providing customers with algorithm tools to quickly build vision applications and solve visual inspection problems. Can be used in various applications such as visual positioning, size measurement, defect detection, and information recognition.

Multiple development modes

Graphical interface development
Graphical software interface, intuitive and easy-to-understand function modules, and fast visual solutions


SDK secondary development model
Customized product development can be completed by using the control and data acquisition interface provided by the VM


Operator design mode
Package the operator into a unique visual tool and integrate it into the user-defined inspection process.

Integrated Vision Master platform with 1000+ image processing operators
The VM provides 1000+ completely self-developed operators and several interactive development tools, supporting a variety of <br/>image acquisition equipment, can meet vision requirements of positioning, measurement, identification, and detection.

Positioning
Measurement
Identification
Detection

Efficient positioning tool matching tool can overcome the differences caused by sample translation, rotation, zoom and illumination, and quickly and accurately find the position of geometric objects such as circles, lines, spots, edges, and vertices. Provide location information and presence information, which can be used in robot guidance and other vision tools.

Provide continuous, accurate and high-speed reading of ID information required for component tracking: OCR algorithm based on deep learning can adapt to the recognition of complex background, low-contrast, and deformed characters; One-dimensional code and two-dimensional code recognition algorithms can recognize information codes of multiple formats, different positions, angles, illumination, and effectively overcome the impact of image distortion.

Accurately identify defects in the surface, shape, and contour of the workpiece: it can detect small surface scratches and spots based on deep learning technology, which can overcome the surface texture, color, and noise interference of the workpiece; accurately detect the shape and contour defects of the workpiece, which can overcome burrs, colors. The interference of noise. Reliable standard parts comparison tool can locate small differences in workpieces.

High-performance deep learning algorithm

The VM algorithm platform is equipped with high-performance deep learning algorithms. After a large number of cases, the optimized algorithm can have good adaptability to common detection products. The deep learning algorithm provides algorithm modules such as classification, target detection, character positioning and recognition, and segmentation. Through the built-in graphical data annotation interface, the complete process from collection, training to detection can be completed within the VM algorithm platform.

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  predict the location of various defects in the picture and present it in the form of a heat map

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  including text positioning and character recognition, which are used to predict the text position and the text truth value in the graph respectively.

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  to determine the type of objects in the picture

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  Determine the category of the object appearing in the picture and predict its location

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  Search for images with similar characteristics to the input image in the specified image dataset

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  Determine the object category and simulate its contour position

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  Present in heatmaps, detect abnormal locations of objects in images based on normal samples

Graphical interface & easy-to-use interaction

The VM provides a fully graphical interactive interface, with intuitive and easy-to-understand function icons, simple and easy-to-use interactive logic and drag-and-drop operation to quickly build a visual solution.

Complete external resource management, can control cameras, IOs, light sources, etc.
The VM integrates the SDKs of various interfaces of industrial cameras, smart cameras, vision controllers and other devices, and embeds efficient and stable occupation and control logic, which has good compatibility with external device resources and can establish a complete management mechanism.

PEKAT VISION^© is software for industrial visual inspection and quality assurance. Together with a smart camera it is a perfect solution for those who would like a ready-to-use AI solution running inside a camera.

For all the companies that would like to enjoy all possibilities that our software brings and cannot work with computers, there is an option to obtain our software bundled with a camera. It is an alternative to computers – all the advantages of PEKAT VISION in one small device.

Smart Camera Solution
PEKAT VISION and ADLINK Smart Camera offer a compact solution for defect detection. The only thing you need to improve the quality control of your products is a small camera which is perfectly able to run PEKAT software.

AI Industrial Smart Camera

Integrated NVIDIA Jetson

IP-67 Certified

USB Type C for video, power and connectivity