Since now i only have experience with systems from Keyence, where all components and the software are from them. Mainly we check for position of contact pins (in 2d and 3d) and all sorts of faults for injection moulding parts.
At first this seems pretty easy with keyence but its pretty expensive as well as limiting if you need anything else. With a strong software background its pretty frustrating how limited they are. Also there is not really a possibility for deep learning fault detection.
So i was looking for alternatives. I was thinking about Halcon, Cognex Vision Pro or even opencv (but i am not sure if it is suitable/less time consuming for industrial applications).
But how do I even get started? The softwares itself for programming the vision programm seem more flexible and better suited but i have no idea where to start in terms of the following, hardware related, points:
which PC to take (or how to set it up according to your requirements like how many cameras and how fast the computation should be)
how to esure real time behaviour (or at least fast enough computation of the vision programm)
how to connect the PC to my PLC (ETHERCAT/PROFINET)
which drivers i need for the communication from PC to camera
frame graber etc for 3d profile sensors?
How to deal with these kind of problems for Halcon, cognex and opencv? Which is best suitable for industrial applications? Is there another library which is better suited? Are there any books or blogs for practical applications with these libraries?