Why Are Machine Vision Cables Important To Your Vision Systems

The Importance of Machine Vision Cable 

Industrial users prudently search for machine vision cameras to find appropriate ones to meet their demands. However, the users may ignore a complimentary product, a cable. It's unwise to ignore its importance; the quality may even affect the overall performance. 
A quality machine vision cable can withstand industrial environments and applications. It also plays a key role in the high-quality performance in transmission and output between cameras and computers.    

The machine vision system is often applied in the fields of inspections, evaluations, and image identification. The vision may be a static or moving system.  The constantly moving imaging head is relatively challenging in cable selections.  The spectrum of robot or metrology systems’ motions varies, from slight motion to multi-axis motion. Some cables are required to tolerate constantly moving stress from vision systems, such as collaborative robots, SCAR robots, and metrology systems.  In terms of the multi-axis-motion machine vision systems, it needs bespoke cable designs to fit the direction of the motion to release the stress from the connection points to keep its performance and its lifespan.  The key parts of cable include the overmold of connectors, the connector material, the design of strain relief, and the wire.   

Comoss' Custom Machine Vision Cable Solution

At COMOSS, we design individualized connectivity solutions, customizing the overmold of the connector and the grade of cable to meet the environmental constraints and the direction of machine movement. For example, if the environment is too narrow to use thick cables, we offer various outer diameters of cable for selection, or design suitable connectors according to the machine movement and reinforce SR to disperse stress, making sure the cable can withstand the environment and the application. Eventually, it aims to reduce the damage and the material wastage. 

When selecting a cable for machine vision, it does not just depend on a bending report that easily. There was a client who bought a machine vision cable from a manufacturer after finding out it showed 10 million times in the bending test report. But after two months, he came back to us. It turned out that the cable was broken in less than two months. Let the client realize that the bending test is not the only consideration to evaluate the cable. It still depends on the overall environment; choosing a suitable one is the best way to ensure the optimization of a machine vision system. This is why COMOSS emphasizes that to customizes the most appropriate solution of machine vision connectors. Besides being durable, our RD team also creates different design ingenuity; otherwise, bad quality and unsuitable design may cause you a lot of money on material consumption, and even shut down the whole production line, resulting in serious losses. 

Statiac Standard Cables and High Flex Cables are 100% tested

We can identify whether a cable is qualified by observing the production process, testing report, and product life cycle. COMOSS offers three types of quality wire for you to choose from: Static Standard, and High Flex, which are suitable for static & slight movement, and frequent movement, respectively. Once, a client used the static standard cable on a motion machine; surprisingly, the cable was working perfectly, and although we do not encourage this application, it did prove the great quality of our cable. 
 
Different from the products that do not have any test report in the market, COMOSS tests all the products 100% before handing them over to the client. Our Golden Sample can pass the high-frequency test, and of course, all the mass production. For example, long-distance USB protocol test, data packet test, frame rate test, and certification of USB-IF. In addition, for machine vision-related products, we have three stages to test the signals to ensure stable quality. 

COMOSS has been in the machine vision field for over thirty years, and we have always insisted on the importance of quality. Though we don't spend much money on marketing, still, COMOSS has accumulated many loyal partners over the years.  

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