How To Select The Best Industrial Camera

By Gretchen Alper, Adimec

Choosing the correct industrial camera for your system from the beginning can eliminate costly redesigns or upgrades in the future. The question is, how do you determine the best camera? Best is always subject to your needs. There are hundreds of options for just high-performance industrial camera, so where do you begin?

We suggest a step-by-step approach that will hopefully help in the camera selection process to find the best candidate. Here is an outline of the approach we will expand upon further.

• Identify your key camera parameters
• Preliminary camera selection
• Camera Evaluation

At the end of these steps, you should know what camera is the best for you. Of course then you still have to determine if the company offers the right support and manufacturing controls as well as consider pricing versus value. Or, if at the end of this, you determine that none of the existing products will meet your needs, perhaps some minor modifications will make for a perfect fit.