On March 18th, at the China (Shanghai) Machine Vision Exhibition, Chen Dexi, deputy general manager of Ling Monkey Robot, accepted an exclusive interview with the reporter of the organizer. He talked about the new lens products brought by Ling Monkey at the exhibition and which application areas still bear the majority of the demand.
Interview with Monkey Robot
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The main new products of Lingmonkey this time are lens products, these products are mainly for measuring the inner wall, and also for measuring the outer wall, including some long-distance lighting lenses, as well as the liquid adaptive lens which is popular with the audience this year. So the whole of this year's Monkey Lens Light Source is a full range of showcases some new products to come.
From the point of view of key products, some of the liquid lenses mentioned just now are relatively popular products for customers, because this product can quickly respond to the imaging requirements of different focus and vitality. This is in many express industry, in many medical industry, it has a lot of application scenarios, so we got a lot of customer recognition and response from the exhibition this year. We believe that this product will be an important new product for China's automated optical lens this year.
Adaptive telecentric lens
Some highlights of this product are:
First of all, from the perspective of machine vision exhibition itself, Ling Monkey, as a true supplier of new technologies on display and a role in promoting the development of China's core components, is a true combination of many international new lens technologies. So from the point of liquid lens, it is the first now quickly within the 50 milliseconds, according to the customer's product highly focus quickly, within 50 milliseconds can quickly finish work focus, to avoid the customer may need original lens and lens solutions, to complete a more complex, the imaging of different height of sampling requirements. Second, like the 360-degree measurement of the inner wall, the customer originally may need a set of consecutive pictures taken from different angles in order to get a 360-degree image of the defects can be taken clearly. At the same time, if the detection of beverage bottles in some categories, as well as medical products, appearance defect detection or appearance identification, such technology can be used, which will greatly reduce the hardware investment of automation now, including the entire time investment, can be identified on a photo.
Kohler illuminated telecentric lens
Monkey's driving method is different from others. We use hardware, including measuring the outer wall, of course, there is also measuring the inner wall, and there is also measuring a part in 360 degrees. This concept lies in the lens itself, which is a core component of imaging, and it is not a fixed standard. Now most of the imaging methods that are seen on the market, there's not a lot of research done on this, there's just a product that has a fixed focal length of FA to do all kinds of imaging. However, the solution we provide is different because the lens has a lot of technology. One lens can take clear pictures of all the defects on all sides of the screw 360 degrees. All the thread could be as clear, a lens, is our another 360 degrees thread measuring technology, measuring the outer wall of the lining of the corresponding measure is the same, we can put our lens put our lens on the inside of the tube products, we can at 360 degrees to measure the products inside some of the imaging in some cases, the original lighting is dozen don't go in, The original traditional vision was that there was no way to see the image inside the cavity. Now some medical equipment can detect, for example, some specific situations in the exhibition. In this way, many imaging difficulties can be solved firstly, and the second is to greatly improve the difficulty of the whole automation. Monkey hardware can be improved, and the lens corresponding to the upgrade is really from the program fundamentals to solve this problem, and does not add too much burden, will simplify a lot of software behind the back of the work, which will greatly increase the cost of the entire solution automation including its time.
Which application areas are bearing the major market needs
Lingmonkey exists in the 3C industry and its parent company is Bozhong Group, so it has a high sensitivity to the 3C industry. In the 3C industry this year, driven by the demand for weapons and wireless Bluetooth headsets, the 3C industry has ushered in a wave of very large demand for automation. This is in the short term at present, and we believe that the market demand will continue for at least 2~3 years. Therefore, this is a peak of automation brought by 5G and wireless Bluetooth headsets in the 3C industry at present. Similarly, the demand for machine vision in assembly, detection and appearance detection is also very high. So this is part of the business segment where we think the big demand for automation in the 3C industry is going to continue to create some more demand.
The second plate, so we see our more traditional some original automation is unlikely to go to do, like small home appliance, including do fishing gear, vacuum cup, a lot of original we think is a traditional industry to do by hand, because the job difficult problem, more boss because outbreaks, many bosses have consciously to transform, Therefore, I can see that more and more small business owners and private business owners are doing 360 degrees. Originally, we thought it was difficult to replace automation. This part is an opportunity for us to see a new height of the real automation in China. There are more real owners like small home appliances do the thermos cup, it is automation needs, so this piece can bring a wave of new automation and machine vision growth.
The third is the epidemic, for our life, we will pay attention to health, so it is also for our medical industry in this aspect of automation is more and more high demand, more and more popular, so for machine vision, this demand will also be able to grow.
The fourth is the semiconductor industry advocated by the state, semiconductor technology requirements are very high, Ling Monkey based on semiconductor high-end demand. In the light source field, we are encouraging to prepare technology, to develop some products, to meet the requirements of the semiconductor machine vision market. Therefore, when the overall spirit monkey can see the cardinal group, it mainly consists of these four categories, and we also gradually inject the plate into the layout according to these four categories.
