Services

Custom Technology

PLC Programming

We have a wide range of experience with all types of Programmable Controllers including Modicon, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, GE and Omron just to name a few. Programming can be implemented using IEC-1131 compliant standard ladder diagrams, sequential function charts, or structured text.

Hardware

One of our quality control methods is to combine our software and electrical controls skills into one deliverable package. In order to meet this objective, Saber maintains a 6000 square foot UL-508A rated panel fabrication facility. By providing control panels and the software to run them, we deliver a fully tested and functional system from the HMI to the PLC to the field termination points located in the panel

Machine Vision

Cognex Omniview System

Saber is proud to be one of only five nationally certified engineering firms that can deploy the Cognex OmniView Inspection System. Imagine how useful it would be to inspect the entire cylindrical surface of bottles, cans, vials, or cosmetic containers without the need for orientation or accurate positioning. This seemingly impossible capability is what OmniViewTM technology from Cognex provides. OmniView uses 4 cameras to obtain a 360-degree view of all features on the entire surface. It can read barcodes, verify text, inspect graphics and measure features at production line speeds of up to 1,200 parts per minute.

OmniView is a revolutionary vision software technology that uses images from multiple cameras to create one seamless and undistorted 360-degree image of any cylindrical surface. Obtaining such an image without OmniView requires stopping and rotating each cylindrical object in front of a line scan camera—a complex process that is too slow for today’s high-speed production lines.

Instead, OmniView uses images from multiple area cameras positioned around the cylindrical object to instantly generate a virtual 3D surface model. OmniView then creates a seamless, undistorted, “unwrapped” image of the complete surface to which optical character recognition (OCR), barcode reading, and other machine vision software tools can be applied. Eliminating the complex and expensive requirement to mechanically spin parts in order to inspect them dramatically reduces complexity, lowers cost and significantly boosts throughput.

“In the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical packaging industries, OmniView allows customers to more cost-effectively avoid mislabeling errors, comply with evolving safety standards, and ensure product quality,” said Marilyn Matz, Cognex Senior VP, PC Vision Products Group. “OmniView’s non-stop, no-spin inspection of directly-printed or labeled cylindrical containers is ideal for achieving accurate, reliable non-contact, 100-percent inspection on even the fastest-paced packaging lines.”

OmniView handles a wide range of packaging applications to ensure product quality and package integrity such as :

OmniView™ Cylindrical Product Inspection System

This system uses images acquired from one or more cameras, and combines those images to create a seamless and undistorted image of an object surface. As long as a feature of interest appears in one or more of the physical camera images, it can be inspected.

OmniView completely eliminates the complex and expensive requirement to mechanically spin parts in order to inspect them. This reduces production line complexity, lowers costs, and increases production speed.

Robotics

Programming

Motion Control