Omron FQ2 Vision Sensor for product inspections

Omron’s FQ2 Vision Sensor is suitable for product inspections in a wide variety of industry sectors, including food and beverage, packaging and pharmaceutical applications.

The sensor is suitable for inspecting caps on plastic bottles to determine whether the cap is damaged, missing or is not inserted properly. It can check for the level of liquid - whether too high or low - for beverages such as fruit juice or soft drinks, and can check for scratches on metal surfaces or whether there has been any damage to labels.

The sensors are IP67 water resistant, meaning they can be used in wet environments; and as all cables from the camera are flexible, the sensor can be used safely on moving parts.

The main benefits of the sensors are reduced labour costs and increased accuracy (claimed to be between 99-99.9%).

Other features include: low maintenance requirements; good image quality and clarity base on 16.7 million colours; power LEDs; high dynamic range (HDR); polarisation and halation filters enabling stable inspections on surfaces that cannot be achieved by conventional vision sensors; fast and easy real-time parameter adjustment.