BOA M1280 High-Resolution Smart Camera Captures 2011 Award for Machine Vision category

WATERLOO, Ontario – March 17, 2011 – Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, will be awarded the 2011 Engineers’ Choice Award by Control Engineering in the machine vision category. The award ceremony will take place on March 20 as part of the Manufacturing Automation Summit in Chicago.

The 24th annual Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Awards shines a light on 30 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2010 as chosen by Control Engineering’s print and online subscribers. More than 100 product nominations from 65 companies were listed on ballots for evaluation. Automation professionals from Control Engineering’s subscriber lists voted to identify the products they felt were the most exceptional based on technological advancement, service to the industry, and market impact.

“We are thrilled to have the BOA 1280 smart camera chosen as the Engineers’ Choice for machine vision by Control Engineering readers,” says Steve Geraghty, director of Teledyne DALSA Industrial Products. “The BOA family of smart cameras has been praised by customers, and been integrated into automation systems around the world with market demand exceeding expectations.”

Teledyne DALSA's BOA M1280 is a high resolution, highly integrated smart camera that comprises all the elements of an industrial machine vision system. Offering superior image quality at a resolution of 1280 x 960 and operating up to 24 frames per second, BOA M1280 is designed to satisfy a wide range of application needs from positioning robotic handlers to complete assembly verification. Quality inspection and factory automation are ideal applications for the BOA smart camera.

The BOA M1280 is differentiated from other smart camera technology by offering greater value than any competitive product in its class. It incorporates multiple processing engines (CPU, DSP and FPGA), requires no software installation (application embedded) and is packaged to simplify factory integration. The 44mm cube style format and IP67 rated enclosure allows the BOA M1280 to easily fit into existing production lines, machinery or moving equipment without additional protective housing.

For a downloadable image of the BOA M1280 high-resolution smart camera, please visit our online media kit.

About Teledyne DALSA’s Machine Vision Products and Services
Teledyne DALSA is a world leader in the design, manufacture and deployment of digital imaging components for the machine vision market. Teledyne DALSA image sensors, cameras, smart cameras, frame grabbers, software, and vision solutions are used in thousands of automated inspection systems around the world and across multiple industries including semiconductor, solar cell, flat panel display, electronics, automotive, medical, packaging and general manufacturing.
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About Teledyne DALSA, Inc.
Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company, is an international leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors with approximately 1,000 employees worldwide, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1980, the company designs, develops, manufactures and markets digital imaging products and solutions, in addition to providing MEMS products and services.
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