Precision Under Pressure: Ruggedized Optics for High-Resolution Sensors

Webinar: 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 45 Minutes + Live Q&A

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As machine vision pushes toward higher resolutions and tighter tolerances, your entire system is only as strong as its weakest link. Even minor shocks and vibrations can degrade image quality, leading to focus drift, false rejects, and costly downtime.

This webinar provides a practical guide to designing and deploying vision systems that deliver stable, repeatable precision in demanding industrial environments. Learn how ruggedized optics and smart sensor-lens pairing can protect your investment, boost uptime, and ensure your system performs flawlessly under pressure.

What You Will Learn:

• Why Ruggedization Matters: See how shock and vibration degrade image quality and how ruggedized designs maintain critical MTF, contrast, and edge-to-edge sharpness on modern high-resolution sensors.
• Engineering the Durable Lens Stack: Go inside the lens to understand the mechanical retention, floating elements, and wide focus rotation that prevent focus drift and pixel blur, ensuring repeatable precision.
• Optimizing the Sensor–Lens Pairing: Get clear, practical guidance on matching focal length, image circle, and pixel size to avoid resolution bottlenecks. We'll demystify the trade-offs between F-number, Depth of Field (DOF), and working distance.
• Real-World Impact & ROI: Explore case studies in Automated Optical Inspection (AOI), robotics, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that show measurable improvements in uptime and yield. Plus, get a simple framework for calculating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to justify your investment.

Who Should Attend This Webinar?

This session is designed for any professional whose success depends on reliable, high-quality imaging.

• Engineers & Integrators who design and build machine vision systems.
• Manufacturing, Quality, & Operations Managers responsible for uptime, yield, and continuous improvement.
• Product & Hardware Architects developing robotics, embedded vision, or mobile platforms.
• R&D and Optical Engineers evaluating the limits of sensor and lens performance.
• Maintenance & Reliability Teams tasked with minimizing recalibration and system downtime.
• Procurement & Program Managers who need to make sound, long-term technology investments.

About Our Speaker

Jonathan Hackney | Director of West Coast Sales at Computar Optics
Jonathan is an experienced Application Engineer with a demonstrated history of more than 15 years in the industrial automation industry.

He has a Bachelor of Science from Texas Tech University, where he studied industrial engineering. He specializes in machine vision products and optics and has been with Computar Optics for over four years.

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