Flir, a Teledyne Technologies company, has developed the "Flir A6301", a highly sensitive, cooled mid-wave thermal imaging camera designed for 24/7 inspection and automation applications aimed at making production lines more efficient and improving product quality. This new camera provides a new level of thermal imaging capability for process control and quality assurance applications in the manufacturing industry.
The "A6301" camera captures high-speed product movement with up to 20 times less motion blur, and its fast integration times significantly reduce image blur, ensuring accurate temperature readings even on the move. It detects small thermal variations and accurately measures temperatures on moving products, providing machine builders and integrators with the state-of-the-art tool they need to tackle challenging machine vision applications, increase throughput, reduce disruptions and minimise downtime with sharper measurements.
“The ‘A6301’ camera offers a new level of thermal imagining capabilities to process control and quality assurance applications in the manufacturing industry. Flir is driving the market forward with the latest in thermal imaging automation innovation, meeting the demanding requirements for production floors, while also delivering the most platform flexibility for integrators, all in a single solution,” said Jerry Beeney, Business Development Director of Flir.
The company has developed the camera with customers and integrators in the forefront. Camera interfaces, commands and connectors are all designed to industry standards. Simple, standard GEV and GenICam" industry protocols make implementation easy, and the long-life cooler reduces concerns about costly annual maintenance. In addition, the "Flir A6301" is the smallest commercial cooled camera platform ever built by Flir, so size and weight don't get in the way of system integration. By integrating additional sensors into a broader automation system, advanced machine learning and deep learning methods, the "Flir A6301" can help ensure a smarter, more efficient process.
