Basler和西门子联手增强机器视觉和工厂自动化能力

Basler and Siemens Join Forces to Enhance Machine Vision and Factory Automation Capabilities
Basler和西门子联手增强机器视觉和工厂自动化能力

The cooperation between Basler and Siemens will bring significant benefits to customers. System integrators, machine builders, and professional end users looking to use computer vision will have easy access to innovative, automated, and easy-to-integrate solutions through this partnership. This will allow them to streamline their production process, increase efficiency, lower costs, as well as improving transparency and quality control—all aimed at maximizing overall productivity.

Basler与西门子的合作将为客户带来显著利益。通过这种合作关系，希望使用计算机视觉的系统集成商、机器制造商和专业最终用户将可以轻松获得创新、自动化且易于集成的解决方案。这将使他们能够简化生产流程、提高效率、降低成本以及提高透明度和质量控制——所有这些都旨在最大限度地提高整体生产力。

Basler Vision Connector: The interface between camera and automation portfolios
Basler Vision Connector：相机和自动化产品组合之间的接口

The first result of this alliance is the Basler Vision Connector—a powerful, easy-to-use app that allows Basler's vision components to be easily integrated into Siemens' Industrial Edge ecosystem.  "The Vision Connector is a game changer for our customers," explains Dr. Dietmar Ley, CEO of Basler AG. "By being an integral part of the ecosystem, it significantly lowers the bar for our customers to integrate computer vision into an existing automation system." In addition, the Basler Vision Connector will also be integrated into Siemens’ SIMATIC TIA ecosystem, enabling customers to freely choose the best-fitting solution for their applications.

该合作的第一个成果是Basler Vision Connector，这是一款功能强大、易用的应用程序，可让Basler的视觉组件轻松集成到西门子的工业边缘生态系统中。Basler公司首席执行官Dietmar Ley博士解释说:“对于我们的客户来说，Vision Connector是一个游戏规则的改变者。作为生态系统不可或缺的一部分，它大大降低了我们的客户将计算机视觉集成到现有自动化系统的门槛。”此外，Basler Vision Connector还将集成到西门子的SIMATIC TIA生态系统中，使客户能够自由选择最适合其应用的解决方案。

This connectivity represents a significant improvement in the use of machine vision. "We are very excited about our new partnership with Siemens", said Ley. "By combining our expertise in machine vision with Siemens' strong background in the automation and digitalization market, our collaboration will allow us to offer pre-tested application scenarios and aligned product portfolio options for customers to choose from. We are able to develop solutions that can help them significantly reduce their time-to-market."

这种连接代表了机器视觉应用的重大进步。“我们对与西门子的新合作伙伴关系感到非常兴奋，”Ley说道。“通过将我们在机器视觉方面的专业知识与西门子在自动化和数字化市场的强大背景相结合，我们的合作将使我们能够提供预测试的应用场景和一致的产品组合选项供客户选择。我们能够开发能够帮助他们显著缩短上市时间的解决方案。”

This is only the initial phase of the partnership; plans are in place to broaden its scope to encompass a wider array of computer vision applications by offering Basler's pylon SDK on Siemens’ automation devices. This will allow customers to easily and seamlessly integrate vision applications into their automation processes, including conventional computer vision functionality as well as performing evaluations based on machine learning. The partnership also includes aligning customer support between the two companies to ensure that customers have a single point of contact for information and advice.

这只是伙伴关系的初始阶段；通过在西门子的自动化设备上提供Basler的pylon SDK，计划将其范围扩大到更广泛的计算机视觉应用。这将允许客户轻松无缝地将视觉应用集成到他们的自动化流程中，包括传统的计算机视觉功能以及基于机器学习的评估。此次合作还包括协调两家公司之间的客户支持，以确保客户可以通过单一联系点获取信息和建议。

“Together we’re integrating machine vision into automation," said Rainer Brehm, CEO Factory Automation at Siemens. "This helps with many tasks, for example when it comes to difficult quality control or to reduce errors and thus defects in industrial production, or to react to the shortage of skilled workers. In doing so, we are taking an important step towards an adaptable, sustainable production and increasingly autonomous production processes."

西门子工厂自动化首席执行官Rainer Brehm表示：“我们正携手将机器视觉融入自动化。这有助于完成许多任务，例如当涉及到困难的质量控制或减少工业生产中的错误和缺陷，或应对熟练工人的短缺时。在此过程中，我们朝着适应性强、可持续的生产和日益自主的生产流程迈出了重要一步。”