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Functional Overview
1.3
Handling Multiple Products
A device may be used in several products, using different programs and tables depending
on the product. This makes it easy to use the same camera for performing different in-
spections. Just create one product for each inspection, and in each product associate the
program and table to be used for the specific inspection.
For example, there are three cameras set up by a production line, and we are producing
two different items on this production line – a transparent bottle and an opaque jar. For the
bottle we can use IVC-2D cameras to inspect both the label on the front and the fill level,
but for the jar we need to use an IVC-3D camera to inspect the fill level.
Device 1
Device 3
Device 1
Device 2
Product: Jar
Dev Program
Table
1 Label
Jar_Label_Table
3 Jar_FillLevel
Jar_FillLevel_Table
Product: Bottle
Dev Program
Table
1 Label
Bottle_Label_Table
2 Bottle_FillLevel Bottle_FillLevel_Table
To achieve this we create two products in IVC Studio with the following contents:
Product: Bottle
Device Program
Table
1 Label
Bottle_Label_Table
2 Bottle_FillLevel
Bottle_FillLevel_Table
Product: Jar
Device Program
Table
1 Label
Jar_Label_Table
3 Jar_FillLevel
Jar_FillLevel_Table
When switching between producing the two products, we can simply open the product in
IVC Studio to load the corresponding programs and tables into the devices. If we would
change the design of the label for the bottle, we can just change the values in the table
Bottle_Label_Table to suit the new design. If necessary we could also make a copy of the
program Label, modify it, and associate the modified program with device 1.
