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3D VISION...

Steely challenge solved with

onboard 3D image processing

Sick’s Ranger3 streaming camera set a new performance benchmark for high-speed,

high-definition onboard 3D image processing, when it was launched last year.
Powered with Sick’s ROCC (Rapid On-Chip Calculation) technology, the pocket-sized
Sick Ranger3 processes up to 15.4 gigapixels per second, enabling full-frame 3D
imaging (2,560 x 832 pixels) at 7 kHz
he Sick Ranger3’s outstanding
capability to capture dimensions,
contours and surface defects make it
Tideal for dimensioning and
inspection tasks in metal production
processes. High repeatability must be assured
regardless of the colour, contrast or brightness
of profiles, slabs and pipes, even as they
flicker with heat, and despite harsh
environments contaminated with tinder, dirt or
moisture.
One of the first to recognise the Ranger3’s
potential is German company, IMS Messesysteme. advantage and opening up new market
The international market leader offers a range of applications.
measurement technologies for steel and non-ferrous IMS’s X-3Dvision measurement system is used
metal production. for 360° inspection of profiles such as H beams, C
profiles, CZ profiles, sheet piling and tubes. To
Continuous casting capture the entire surface seamlessly, multiple
IMS has integrated the Ranger3 camera into its Ranger3 cameras and lasers are configured into a
optical X-3Dvision measurement system, used for single, circular measurement setup. While systems
3D inspection in thermal production processes in usually feature between three and eight cameras,
continuous casting plants, hot rolling mills and tube the latest plant contains 22 Sick Ranger3 cameras
rolling mills. With the Sick Ranger3, IMS has with eight lasers in one system.
refined the accuracy of the X-3Dvision system at the Using the highly light-sensitive M30 CMOS
sub-millimetre range, widening its competitive sensor and ROCC (Rapid On-Chip Calculation), the

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