From feasibility to maintenance, a single contact
A technical team with many skills, vision, automation, industrial IT, mechanics and electrics, supporting you at every step.
Six steps, with the same contact throughout
Feasibility
Your parts go through our laboratory: cameras, optics and lighting are tested to establish what vision can guarantee.
Proposal
Shared specification: checks, line speed, expected detection rate, interface and communication.
Design
Lighting developed for your production; optics, mechanics, electrics and software designed in-house.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing, wiring and programming, then validation on your parts before shipping.
Commissioning
On-site installation, adjustment in production, acceptance and training of your teams.
Support
Telephone support, remote maintenance, on-site service and annual maintenance contract.
Feasibility and audit
A laboratory with a full range of cameras, lenses and lighting to quickly assess the feasibility of your project.
- Tests on your good and defective parts
- Audit of an existing installation: image quality, optical settings, lighting, processing tools
- Report with the solutions to bring your installation back into service
Design and integration
Because a successful vision project depends on good lighting, Opales develops lighting suited to your production, your environment and your available space.
- Inspection machines based entirely on cameras
- Vision systems suited to every stage of production
- Traceability: results, statistics and image archiving
- Area-scan, line-scan or 3D cameras; visible, infrared, UV, X-rays
Commissioning and training
On-site installation, adjustment in production and acceptance with your teams, then training of the operators and technicians who will run the system.
- Adjustment on the line, at real speed
- Training for operators and maintenance staff
- Documentation and program backup
Maintenance and technical support
In addition to turnkey integration and the sale of vision products, Opales supports your installations over the long term.
- Telephone support during business hours
- Remote maintenance
- On-site service
- Annual maintenance contract
What speeds up a feasibility study
The more complete your request, the sooner we can tell you what vision can guarantee.
- Parts, good and defective, representative of the defects to be detected.
- The line speed and the time available for the decision.
- The expected tolerance and the defects that would be most costly if they got through.
- The environment: available space, dust, temperature, vibration.
- Integration: PLC, robot, MES, what must be traced.
Before starting a vision project
What is needed to study the feasibility of an inspection?
Representative parts, good and defective, the line speed, the available space and the environment (dust, temperature, vibration), and what the PLC must receive in return. We run the parts through our laboratory, equipped with a full range of cameras, lenses and lighting.
Do you build complete machines or only the vision part?
Both. Opales designs and builds turnkey inspection machines based entirely on cameras, and also integrates vision into your own machine or line. The team covers vision, mechanics, electrics, automation and industrial IT.
Do you work only with Cognex?
Opales has been an official Cognex integration partner (PSI) since 2006 and uses the Cognex range when it is the right answer. We also develop our VisiOpal software, which drives Basler and IDS cameras with our own processing tools, with no third-party licence; Cognex VisionPro tools remain available as an option.
Can you take over an existing or faulty installation?
Yes. An audit assesses image quality, optical settings, lighting and processing tools, and concludes with a report of solutions to bring the installation back into service. For end-of-life cameras, we offer retrofit.
Do you work abroad?
Opales has worked in 30 countries on 5 continents. Remote maintenance also lets us assist your teams from a distance.
How are results traced?
Depending on the project: image archiving, production statistics, database, MES link and an operator interface suited to your plant.
An inspection to set up, an installation to take over?
Send us your parts, good and defective: we run them through our laboratory and show you what vision can guarantee on your line.
