By Kalwinder KaurSep 29 2012
Teledyne DALSA has declared that its BOA Smart Cameras is available to support PROFINET IO that fosters industrial automation applications with its high-level network.
Based on standard Ethernet technologies, PROFINET IO has been developed and serves to be an absolute network structure for exchange of data, diagnostics, and alarms with automation controllers in the factory floor such as Programmable Controllers. PROFINET IO is considered as an extensively adopted open standard backed by "PROFIBUS and PROFINET International," the globally-established automation community.
The Teledyne DALSA BOA smart camera serves as a highly integrated optical inspection tool for enhancing productivity and for optimizing the quality. All the elements of an industrial machine vision system have been packed within a compact, smart camera style package. BOA smart cameras provide scalable vision solutions that can effectively cater to a broad range of application demands such as positioning of robotic handlers and also for overall assembly verifications. BOA is completely packed with iNspect Express, a set of click and apply tools to meet a broad series of optical automation operations.
The BOA Smart Camera is categorized as an IO-Device in the PROFINET environment, according to a GSD (Generic Station Description) file. The GSD file ensures a basis for planning the configuration of a PROFINET IO system for the IO-Controller. BOA’s defined IO modules can be adopted by the control program. BOA configuration for PROFINET is easy as it only requires selection from a series of supported communication protocols present in the iNspect Express user interface.
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