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Thanks everyone for your responses! One other question my project group and I keep asking ourselves as we set up our configuration is, "What is the actual function of each component in lamens terms?" Note, I have attached a wiring diagram of the donated Omron F160 system. From the responses, we know that the NS10-TV00B-V2 Interactive Display is used in conjunction with the F160-C10E-2 Vision Controller to set up the scenes used to inspect the parts. But why is the vision system connected in the way in the attached wiring diagram? In other words, why is the vision controller connected to the PLC controller? And then the HMI connected to the communications card of the PLC? Why not just have the one RS-232 connection to the PLC? It maybe our lack of experience, but if anyone could elaborate the specific function of each vision component and/or how it functions as a whole. Again, our goal is to use this vision system to inspect a part. When determined a good or a bad part, we need to use that determination in RSLogix 5000 in ladder logic to operate the rest of the machine. Also a side note, we purchased a 1769-ASCII communications card to use with our Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLC, since the donated configuration had a serial communications card as well. *I can provide additional documentation if needed. Wring Diagram (Omron).pdf

Thank you a bunch to both of you! That was exactly what I was looking for.   I appologize I wasn't clear in my wording but yea I just want the vision system to send a pass fail signal to the plc in order to track bad parts vs good parts in a tracking subroutine within the rest of the plc program.   We have acquired all of the manuals and have looked into and read most of them pretty extensively I just more was curious as to what people with experience with the vision system had for thoughts on the project and to make sure we weren't overlooking something huge as none of us in our group have worked with Omron ever and we have very limited knowledge of vision systems in general thus far.   Again thank you very much for your replys! Justin

Hello, Myself and my teammates are working on our senior capstone project for our Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology degree at Ferris State University in Michigan.  Since all three of us are planning to go into Controls Engineering careers we decided to use some of the recently donated Omron F-160 vision systems to place on a two belt conveyor system to check good part/bad part by taking an image and sending it to an Allen Bradley plc.  The only issue being that we have zero experience with omron products.  That being said the plc we are using is a CompactLogix chassis (since that is what we have used throughout our college classes thus far) and through research we believe that we can communicate using ASCII commands (rs-232 protocol) using the Allen Bradley 1769 ASCII communications card in conjunction with our existing cards from our classes.  We also have the Omron NS10-TV00B-V2 HMI with an Omron NS-CA002 video card that we will use with the vision system and in connection with the plc as well.  So ultimately our question is for some of you who are familiar with the F-160 system and its capabilities.  Will this even work?  What was used for programming the HMI as we have seen various different programs though research?  Is the software still available?  To obtain the software would it be something that would need to be acquired through Omron?