K-VFinder/K-VStereo? Does anyone have experience with these?

    I'm looking at ways to improve the cycle times for one of my lines and I was curious if anyone had experience with the Kawasaki proprietary vision systems (K-VFinder/K-VStereo)? How is it to set up and support? I'm sure it can be used for simple part/shape identification? Right now the robot does a 300 mm/s -800 draw through two mechanical limit switches that are used to check the presence of casted battery terminal posts. I'm pretty sure we could cut that time in half with a vision camera verifying the posts are present. If anyone has had experience with the Kawasaki systems I'd love to hear your critiques. I'll also be looking at Keyence and Cognex as well.

    Sadly I have never used them and from all accounts, not all that popular either as integrators tend to stick with their own developed/integrated solutions.

    I do believe in Kawasaki's wisdom that it is not just a software application that this consists of, I think arbitrary hardware is supplied with it also, including PC, Lighting Unit and Controller and License USB hardware dongle.

    I believe the software has many different 'learning/training' tools though and would speculate (as with many Kawasaki products) a high degree of flexibility.

    For this reason, I doubt it would be a cheap price tag either and therefore I would certainly contact your local distributor for more accurate information and it wouldn't surprise me if they offer demo units or at least be in a position to demonstrate the products full capabilities.

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