The Shelton WebSPECTOR® family of machine vision products can tackle a wide range of inspection tasks that until now have required bespoke engineering. The WebSPECTOR® range breaks inspection tasks or requirements into three groupings:
1. Tasks such as gauging, location and measurement where the objects being studied have a pattern or profile to match against are covered by the WebSPECTOR® Lite system.
2. Fault detection tasks involving unknown data are covered by the WebSPECTOR® Standard system.
3. Tasks requiring increased functionality such as database management, defect libraries and self training are included in the WebSPECTOR® Plus system.
Each of the above systems form the basis for a custom engineered solution which is scaled to suit the mechanical size and resolution of the task being undertaken. Their modular design enables a number of different camera planes to be integrated into the one vision system. A central PC system co-ordinates the overall vision system, so that all the various camera planes are started and stopped together ensuring that information from each plane is collected and analysed together.

Our design philosophy has led to the open modular architecture we deploy. The system can be built to speeds of between 5 to 600m/min, and resolutions of between 0.05mm to 5mm per pixel.

The WebSPECTOR® ‘s powerful automatic training and web-recording systems, a patent protected feature, developed onto the PC based image processors massively enhance the inspection accuracy and set-up efficiency.