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Technical Recommendation Date: 23/02/17
Analyst: José Luis Palmeros Technical leader: José Luis Palmeros
System: Diverse

TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATION
Migrating From Checkers to IS2000 Vision Sensors
And
Migrating From Elinchrom BRX 500 To L300 Cognex Illumination

PTC-955-U-16
Hot Rolling Mill
Tenaris Bay City

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 Hot Rolling Mill - Tenaris Bay City Version: 1.0
Technical Recommendation Date: 23/02/17
Analyst: José Luis Palmeros Technical leader: José Luis Palmeros
System: Diverse

Document History

Date Version Description Author

23/02/17 1.0 Initial Version José Luis Palmeros

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Analyst: José Luis Palmeros Technical leader: José Luis Palmeros
System: Diverse

Table of Contents

1 Recommendation...........................................................................................................................4
1.1 Team Members...................................................................................................................................4
1.2 Objective............................................................................................................................................4
1.3 Background........................................................................................................................................4
1.4 Recommending the adoption of equipment of the IS2000 family.....................................................4
1.5 Parts list..............................................................................................................................................5
1.6 Summary............................................................................................................................................5

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Analyst: José Luis Palmeros Technical leader: José Luis Palmeros
System: Diverse

1 Recommendation.

1.1 Team Members.

Customer: Efraín Hernández
Technical Leader: José Luis Palmeros

1.2 Objective.
Reporting a recommendation related to an issue that could impact the quality and performance
of some of the applications currently under development.

1.3 Background.

1.3.1 Cognex 4G7X Checker.

It can be seen that the initial materials list proposed by TenarisBayCity reflects the use of vision
sensor Cognex 4G7X Checker for the following applications:
· Mandrel Presence in Retainer Rack
· Hot-Pipe Tracking
· Cold-Pipe Tracking

In sought for the development of high quality, long life solutions we considered necessary to
review and evaluate that equipment and compare it against other options available. This way,
we initiated a dialog with specialized personnel at Cognex, obtaining the present
recommendation as a result.

1.3.2 Elinchrom BRX 500 Illumination.

It can also be seen that an Elinchrom BRX 500 Illumination is planned to be used for the Cold-
Pipe Tracking applications. In a similar way, a technical evaluation of the equipment was carried
out and a recommendation was produced.

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1.4 Recommending the adoption of equipment of the IS2000 family

In spite of the probable technical capability of the checkers to fulfill the requirements of the
applications mentioned above, Cognex highly discourages the use of that equipment on any
new long-lasting application. The reason for that is due to the fact that the checkers are now
close to be put out of production. The inclusion of this equipment in a solution would mean that
in short there could be no possibility of having access to replacements or support from the
manufacturer.

Consequently, in order to avoid foreseeable obsolescence issues, the most prudent approach
appears to be migrating to the vision sensor In-Sight 2000 family, which is currently being
promoted by the manufacturer as the natural substitute for the leaving checkers. Our
recommendation is, then, according to the manufacturer perspective, migrating to the
equipment listed in section 1.6.

1.5 Recommending the adoption of Cognex L300 Illumination.

The recommendation here is to migrate from Elinchrom BRX 500 to Cognex L300 Illumination.
The most important differences between theese equipments are as follows:
Unlike the BRX 500, the L300 equipoment is designed for use in an industrial environment. The
L300 can operate in strobo mode, in sync with the camera, so that the real power reached is
improved by a factor of 3x.

1.6 Parts list.

The following is a preliminary list of parts. This includes illumination equipment as
recommended by Cognex as a suitable option for the Cold-Pipe Tracking Applications. This also
includes lenses and other accessories.

# Product ID Product
1CIO-1400 In-Sight CIO-1400 I/O Expansion Module
2IVSL-5PM12-15 SVL 5 PIN 15 METER CABLE (49.2 FEET)
3CCB-84901-2001-15 Cognex X-Coded M12 Ethernet Cable (15M Length)
4CCB-PWRIO-15 Power and I/O Cable, M12-12 (15M Length)
5LM12-SPACER-25-01 In-Sight 2000 M12 25mm Lens Spacer
6IS2000M-130-40-125 In-Sight 2000-130 Vision Sensor
7IVSL-L300-625 SVL 300MM LINEAR LIGHT 625NM Red
8LM12-08-01 Lens, S-Mount M12 8mm f/2 (fixed aperture)

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As mentioned above, this is just a preliminary list and should be taken as a simple guide. In
some stations the product-IDs could vary according to particularities of the working area. For
example, some stations will probably need more than one illumination source. In the same way,
the length of the cables or the focal length of the camera could be different from the ones
exhibited, implying different part numbers. As for the lenses, the one showed in the list has a
focal length of 8mm (which is the de facto focal length). The other focal lengths available are
listed here: 3.6mm, 6mm, 12mm, 16mm, 25mm.

It is worthwhile to point out that the vision sensors of the In-Sight 2000 family, as the one
recommended, are more robust and more capable when compared to the originally intended
checkers. This represents an appreciated plus since this fact offers us a wider span of
possibilities during the development process.

1.7 Summary

As a summary, we are proposing the following two migrations:

1.- from Checkers to IS2000-130 sensors
(and their corresponding accessories like lenses and cables).
2.- from Elinchrom BRX 500 to Cognex L300 Illumination.

The study was performed with help from Cognex. Further detailed analysis of particularities of
the stations is still necessary.

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