/ 03 - Integration
PLC // MES // Robotics // OPC UA
A vision system is only as good as the line it lives on. We wire our systems into the PLCs, MES platforms and robotics you already operate, so inspection results drive real actions on the floor.
Six integration disciplines, each commissioned by the same engineers who built the vision cell. Click through the dossier.
Siemens, Rockwell and Beckhoff integration on Profinet and EtherNet/IP.
We speak fluent Siemens S7, Rockwell ControlLogix and Beckhoff TwinCAT. Vision results land on the PLC as structured tags — pass/fail, defect class, measurement value and timestamp — using Profinet, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP or raw TCP/IP. Handshake bits are scoped and tested with your controls team on the bench before we ever set foot on site, and we hand back a tag map your engineers can read at 3am.
Per-part reporting, recipes and audit data into MES and historian.
Every inspected part is published to your MES, SCADA or historian over OPC UA or REST — batch, recipe, operator, image reference and full measurement payload. Recipes are pulled down per job so a product changeover is a barcode scan, not a half-hour of menu clicks. Works with Tulip, Ignition, Wonderware, SAP DMC and bespoke L3 platforms.
2D and 3D vision-guided pick, place and weld cell positioning.
Calibrated 2D and 3D vision feeding offsets directly to ABB, Fanuc, KUKA, Yaskawa and Universal Robots. We handle hand-eye calibration, frame transforms and cycle-time budgeting so the robot moves to the right place, first time, every time — bin picking, weld seam tracking, adhesive bead following, kit assembly and palletising included.
Pneumatic and servo divert actuation tied to inspection result.
Closed-loop reject: inspection result, encoder tracking, shift register, actuator fire — verified with a downstream sensor and reconciled per shift. Pneumatic pushers, servo diverters, drop gates and lane splitters all wired through our cell so a missed reject is impossible, not just unlikely. Reject counters and reason codes flow straight to MES.
Line-level integration with site-level serialisation platforms.
Full L2 ↔ L3 integration with Systech, Antares, SAP ATTP, TraceLink and Optel. Unique codes are requested, printed, verified and committed in a single atomic transaction — no orphan codes, no duplicate commits, no aggregation gaps. Aggregation to case and pallet handled with parent/child reconciliation and full rollback on reject.
User roles, audit trail and e-signature on inspection and reject.
GxP-ready from day one: role-based access via Active Directory, immutable audit trail, electronic signatures on recipe change, reject override and batch release. Validation pack (URS, FRS, IQ, OQ, PQ) authored alongside your QA team, with traceability matrix and change-control hooks. Annex 11 and EU GMP equivalents covered.
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