With its ICR890-4 Pro Color, Sick, one of the world's leading manufacturers of sensors for the automation of production sites, processes and logistics systems, is launching a line-scan camera with dynamic focusing. According to the manufacturer, this is the world's first camera that can both dynamically adjust its focus and produce additional color images for tracking and tracing systems.
Applications include 1D and 2D code reading tasks in transport and logistics processes. With its improved modular design, LED illumination and focus control units, and high-performance decoder, Sick believes the line-scan camera sets new standards for tracking and tracing systems.
It automatically digitizes incoming items, both at goods-in and during returns processing in the retail and CEP sectors.
The camera also manages their direct integration into automated logistics processes, enabling them to be seamlessly documented, for example by distinguishing boxes from bags, identifying hazard symbols or classifying objects according to the color of their labels. All in all, this makes it possible to create comprehensive master data for every item.
With a throughput of over 18,000 objects per second and transport speeds of up to 4.5 m/s, the ICR890-4 Pro Color offers high image quality for OCR, video coding and vision applications, thanks to parallel output of a color and grayscale image.
The images and data produced by the system can then be interpreted using software applications developed by Sick.
This not only reduces the manual workload, but also speeds up the arrival of goods at their destination thanks to automated verification.