Machine Vision & Fixed Scanning

The complete system, not just the hardware

1. 1
   Physical capture

   A fixed camera or fixed-mount scanner images every item at line speed and decides pass or fail without a person present.

   Optics, lighting, and part presentation decide whether this works. The application study happens on your actual parts before hardware is quoted, because a vision system that was specified from a drawing usually fails on the line.

   How it is captured

   Machine vision and fixed industrial scanning

   Hardware at the capture point

   • ·Fixed industrial scanners — Read codes on every item at line speed without an operator (opens the Arrowhead store in a new tab)
   • ·Smart cameras and vision sensors — Inspect presence, position, and print quality and return a pass or fail
   • ·Lighting, optics, and mounts — Hold the part, the light, and the lens in the geometry the inspection needs (opens the Arrowhead store in a new tab)

2. 2
   Mobi software

   What Mobi does with what was captured

   The vision system performs the inspection. Arrowhead's Integrations capability carries the pass, fail, and read result into the quality system or line control, and Print Studio addresses the print quality problems a verification failure usually points at.

   IntegrationsControlled ReleasePrint StudioPreview

   Current limits

   Mobi does not perform machine vision inspection. Inspection logic belongs to the vision hardware and its configuration; Mobi's role is limited to approved integration and reporting where a deployment includes it.

3. 3
   System of record

   Where the result has to land

   Pass, fail, and decoded values are sent to the quality system or the line controller so a bad part can be rejected in the same cycle rather than reviewed later.

   Systems this connects to

   MES · Quality management system · ERP · Line control or PLC

   What you provide

   The line control interface, the reject mechanism, the acceptance criteria for a defect, and the part samples the study runs on.

4. 4
   Delivery and lifecycle

   Who builds it, who runs it, and who answers when it breaks

   1. Application study on sample parts
   2. Optics and lighting selection
   3. Mounting and line integration
   4. Acceptance testing
   5. Training
   6. Support

   What Arrowhead supplies and configures

   • Application study on your parts, including good and defective samples
   • Lighting, lens, and camera or scanner selection
   • Mounting design and line integration
   • Configuration and acceptance testing against your criteria
   • Operator and maintenance training
   • Ongoing support and adjustment as the part mix changes

   What you provide

   • Representative good and defective parts for the study
   • Line speed, part presentation, and available mounting space
   • The reject or alarm mechanism and its interface
   • Documented accept and reject criteria

   When something stops working

   Arrowhead owns the capture and the integration to the line. Detection thresholds are re-validated with the customer when parts, packaging, or line speed change, because a vision system drifts with the process rather than on its own.

What the proof actually shows

Every claim below is labeled with who produced it. Arrowhead delivering a system, a vendor publishing a result from another partner's deployment, a credential a third party issued us, software we run ourselves, a capability we offer, and a direction we have not shipped are different things, and they are labeled differently.

• General capability

  Arrowhead is an early partner in Zebra's machine vision and fixed industrial scanning initiative.

  This is a partner status and a capability Arrowhead is building; no published Arrowhead machine vision customer result is claimed.

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• Vendor-supported result

  Zebra publishes machine vision and fixed scanning capability material for its product line.

  Vendor product capability published by Zebra Technologies, not evidence of an Arrowhead-delivered deployment.

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• Future direction

  Inspection models that adapt themselves to new part variants without review.

  Not offered. Changes to inspection criteria are reviewed, tested, and accepted with the customer before they run in production.

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