With over 100 years of combined machine vision system design and development experience within the company, Shelton Vision are able to provide a level of expertise to create unique and creative solutions to problems that can be resolved using machine vision and automation.
Our systems and solutions operate within the production facilities of some of the worlds leading manufacturers of aerospace, automotive, textile apparel and medical fabrics and products.
We provide integrated or turnkey solutions and take care in the early stages to ensure a detailed understanding of expectations to ensure a positive outcome.
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Shelton Vision are specialists in the design, manufacture and application of digital camera systems for surface and product inspection.
The Shelton company was established in 1971 and quickly gained a reputation for pioneering developments in textile equipment and machinery, which was transformed into a market leading industrial vision systems technology company by the current CEO, Mark Shelton
The spirit of continuous and focused development remains a key strength of the current machine vision design and manufacturing business with no better example than the unique features and benefits developed and incorporated in the unrivalled Shelton Vision WebSPECTOR System, a technical leader in surface inspection machine vision systems for demanding applications.
For successful outcomes it requires the ability to get a detailed understanding of the clients business and at the same time provide the client with a level of information and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of machine vision technology.
We are able to log onto all systems remotely to enable timely investigation and apply solutions should issues arise, the users require additional training, or additional features added.
Shelton Vision provide unparalleled vision system support from dedicated Technical Account Managers (TAM’s).
The TAM’s build up a knowledge of our clients businesses and requirements and often can suggest ways that system operation can add further benefit.
allows clients to make and store recordings of products they may feel they want some assistance with, or to investigate settings and performance. Our support team can then replay the recordings on the client system with the client participating and take them through options for revised settings.
During commissioning the TAM’s get involved in assisting our clients to write SOP’s and providing further operational advice.
The support is provided under long term support agreements and includes software upgrades and minor adaptations on a fair use policy.
Shelton Machines Limited is committed to minimising the impact of its industrial vision systems activities on the environment.
Minimise toxic emissions through the selection and use of our vehicles and the source of power requirement.
Source and promote a product range to minimise the environmental impact of both production and distribution.
Meet or exceed all the environmental legislation that relates to the Company.
The system operates on a PC processing platform. This provides high processing speeds as well as system flexibility to run many of the unique features of the
Each has benefits; online provides reduced handling and an inspected batch directly off the process (and for some processes, such as coating, the severity/length of defects can be reduced to a minimum). Whereas a purpose built high speed batch to batch machine often allows the output from more than one process line to be inspected with a single system.
However there is a wider consideration in terms of the best use of vision systems in a manufacturing process (which may not be completed on one site). This involves a broader implementation of the technology throughout the production process stages, creating significant saving by replacing high cost external waste (customer claims/reject), with lower cost, early internal intervention to remove sub-standard product. The same total volume of scrap is removed from the system in both cases, but internal control is generally much more cost effective before full value has been added and (critically) before it gets to your customer, where additional costs may be incurred and claimed, such as shipment costs, lost process time, additional added value from their process etc.
Often an increasing proportion of value is added at later stages of manufacture that involve higher process/component costs, so substantial costs can be avoided by early detection and not processing already substandard product.
Generally the defect map is then reviewed for commercial acceptability and used to create an optimised cutting plan which provides the highest yield possible for a batch. This is calculated in terms of delivering the highest value to your business whilst operating within a pre-determined set of ‘rules’ or customer/product specification.
The system is specified from our experience and a set of typical borderline defects provided by you and evaluated by us. During commissioning our engineer will use the
In order to provide the optimum inspection settings for a large and ever changing range of styles/products the system has been designed to automatically train itself on each individual style/product. This means that there are no compromises in the settings and ensures that thousands of different styles can be handled at optimum performance without operator intervention when new styles are introduced.
6. How does the system know which product it is inspecting?
The inspection system can accept input product data from networked production control systems, bar code scanners and manual keyboard entry of running, or scheduled, product data. It is important to know when one product finishes and the next starts so that the settings can be automatically adjusted for each product. This may be provided from the process control system or from other sensors that detect joins, either visually or by the introduction of metal tape for example.
