Sony Image Sensing Solutions partnership TORDIVEL

Weybridge, UK - July 26, 2005

 

Sony Europe's ISS (Image Sensing Solutions) division has anounced a move to engage suppliers and offer end users integrated solutions based on its machine vision component cameras. The aim is to save customers time and effort through delivering approved products that will enhance productivity. For the first such deal Sony teamed up with Tordivel A.S., a leading supplier of firewire/IEEE1394 imaging based vision solutions, to deliver the Sony Scorpion Vision Starter Kit.

 

The starter kit provides a framework that is well suited for individual real-world applications. It contains everything production engineers require to develop and maintain their own vision solutions with ease, and removes the need to rely on a contracted vision system integrator. Users do not need to have a deep knowledge of control software nor be any type of programmer or software specialist. It is well suited to a wide range end users and manufacturers including those in the automotive and inspection industries.

 

The Sony Scorpion Vision Starter Kit includes a Scorpion Enterprise software license, a high quality Sony XCD-V50 IEEE1394.b camera and a two day training course focusing on using the Scorpion Vision Software. The standard and configurable user interface of the software paired with innovative and easy-to-use imaging tools quickly enables engineers to plan, implement and test complete Scorpion applications so that they are ready to communicate with control systems.

 

The Sony XCD-V50 is one of the first digital machine vision cameras based on the new IEEE1394.b standard which offers twice the bandwidth of existing IEEE1394.a systems, allowing systems to handle more cameras and / or run at higher resolutions.

 

Pascal Wojciechowski, Divisional Director, at Sony ISS said, "Customer satisfaction is our prime focus. By seeking out Sony partners to provide integrated end user solutions we are taking the leg work out of the process, thus speeding development and easing deployment We will only team up with partners that provide the highest calibre solutions to match our cameras performance and capabilities."

 

The Sony approved Scorpion Vision Starter Kit is available now from Tordivel A.S: www.tordivel.com

 

ENDS

 

Editor's note: Scorpion Vision Software is a registered trademark of TORDIVELAS.

For more information, please contact:

Oliver Davies, Publitek Tel. +44 (0) 1225 470000 / fax +44 (0) 1225 470047 / email: oliver.davies@publitek.com

Clemens Schuette, Sony Corporate Communications Europe Tel. +44 (0) 1932 817402 / fax +44 (0) 1932 816649 / email: clemens.schuette@eu.sony.com

 

About Sony: Sony manufactures audio, video, communications and information technology products for the global consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, game and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be one of the World´s Leading Consumer Brands. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of EUR 53.43 billion (yen 7,160 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 and it employs approximately 151,400 people worldwide. In Europe, Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of EUR 12.03 billion (yen 1,613 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, based on an average market exchange rate for the same period of yen 134 to the EUR.

 

Sony Europe, headquartered at the SonyCenter am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, is responsible for the company's European electronics business and registered consolidated sales of EUR 8.87 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. About Sony Image Sensing Solutions division: Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions division has an in-depth range of component cameras and image sensing products. Industry leading products include colour and monochrome CCD video cameras for analogue and digital (IEEE 1394 and CameraLink) vision systems, which satisfy numerous market sectors and applications, including manufacturing (industrial vision solutions), security/monitoring, webcasting, videoconferencing, scientific and medical markets. This division is based in the UK and France and continues to be supported by over 25 years of technologically-advanced design and development, delivered today in world-class products.

 

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