Industrialized Camera Captures Images of Open Arc Welds

Xiris Automation has released the XVC-1000e weld camera, an industrialized version of the company’s XVC-1000 weld camera. It is a high-dynamic-range camera capable of capturing images of open arc welds to simultaneously see all features of the weld arc, its surrounding environment, and its position relative to the weld seam.

The camera comes includes integrated solid-state lighting, motorized focus, and a replaceable front window, all in an IP67-rated housing that can be air- or liquid-cooled.

Operators can remotely monitor the quality of their welding processes and make adjustments as necessary on-the-fly up to 330 ft. away.

The combination of welding-specific features such as image triggering, general-purpose I/O, image windowing capability, and a weld arc photodetector with a full suite of welding-specific imaging software tools, creates high image quality of a variety of welding and laser processes.