Overview
Flexibility and High-Performance AI for Challenging Inspections
Customize your setup, run advanced AI models, and handle high-complexity workloads with the In-Sight 6900 Vision Controller. Configurable hardware meets application-specific requirements, GPU acceleration powers demanding AI workloads, and unified software with the industry’s largest vision toolset ensures flexible deployment and easy integration.
Modular hardware for flexible deployment
- Customize your system with a range of resolutions, sensors, and mounting options
- Handle complex workloads and large datasets with expanded on-device memory and storage
- Adapt to different automation needs with fully configurable hardware
High-capacity processing, built for advanced AI
- Run advanced applications – directly at the edge – with integrated GPU acceleration
- Deploy high-throughput, low-latency AI inference powered by NVIDIA-based architecture
- Support next-generation AI models, including transformer-based frameworks
Consistent user experience, fully integrated portfolio
- Unified software platform simplifies integration across production lines and sites
- Point-and-click setup and advanced programming support flexible deployment
- Industry’s largest library of vision tools enables application-specific configuration
Key Features
Core capabilities powering next-generation quality control
Advanced image processing
Supports advanced AI inference, delivering inspection capabilities beyond conventional controllers.
Up to 65 MP resolution
Captures subtle defects on both small and large parts, while maximizing the field-of-view.
256 GB onboard storage
Handles large image sets and complex AI models for advanced dataset retention and continuous model refinement.
Smart, plug-and-play lighting
Enables quick connection and control for reliable performance without complex setup.
Native factory-ready integration
Supports leading industrial protocols for seamless PLC and motion controller synchronization, simplifying deployment.
High-bandwidth Ethernet ports
Provides real-time data transfer and image offloading to enable high-throughput inspections at full production speed.
Adaptive hardware for any industrial challenge
Cognex Industrial Cameras (CICs) come in a variety of resolutions and sensor formats, delivering reliable performance for both standard and advanced machine vision inspections.
C-mount lenses – available in standard, large-format, and telecentric options – ensure optimal resolution and field-of-view for every inspection.
High-intensity industrial lighting enhances contrast and detects defects on reflective, transparent, and low-contrast surfaces.
Set up advanced lighting controls quickly and easily for consistent, repeatable inspections – no complex configuration required.
Powered by NVIDIA Jetson™
With the NVIDIA Jetson module, the In-Sight Vision Controller becomes a high-performance AI engine, running complex neural networks right at the edge with speed and precision.
- Embedded GPU Performance: Execute advanced AI models without slowing down production.
- Real-Time AI Inference: Get low-latency inspection results at full production line speed.
Targeted AI for advanced inspections
The In-Sight Vision Controller uses advanced AI tool modes to handle the most challenging machine vision tasks. These modes work reliably in variable environments without requiring precise part positioning or consistent lighting, outperforming traditional inspection methods.
Few-Sample Classification
Detect part variants and defect types reliably with just 10-20 training images, powered by a transformer-based AI model.
Robust Segmentation
Isolate inspection regions from complex, noisy, or low-contrast backgrounds, ensuring only the relevant features are analyzed.
More application coverage with Advanced AI
Train AI models centrally, adapt them locally, and run high-performance inspections on any Cognex device – with OneVision. OneVision brings together model development, cross-team collaboration, and multi-device deployment in a single platform.
Pair it with the In-Sight Vision Controller to access Advanced AI tools, handle more complex inspections, and solve a wider range of applications than competitive solutions.
Unified Software Architecture
In-Sight Vision Suite provides a universal software platform across all In-Sight systems, making it easy to deploy and scale from basic inspections to complex, high-performance AI and machine vision applications. Unified software ensures consistent configuration, seamless integration, and faster setup for industrial automation.
Comprehensive Vision Tool Library
Pre-trained AI models make deployment fast and simple, requiring only a few training images. Ideal for standard inspections such as defect detection, classification, assembly verification, and OCR.
Configurable, customizable AI models tackle complex inspections with high variability, subtle defects, or highly specific requirements. Ideal for high-precision machine vision in demanding manufacturing environments.
*Available on OneVision-enabled models
Industry-proven rule-based vision tools for precise, deterministic applications. Ideal for measurement, blob analysis, pixel counting, pattern matching, 1D/2D code reading, robotic guidance, and logic operations.
Applications
Flexible, high-performance machine vision for challenging industrial applications
The In-Sight Vision Controller adjusts to your specific inspection needs, delivering accurate and reliable results across a wide range of manufacturing environments and industries.
Foreign object detection
Detect foreign objects in densely packed parts, products, and components, even with varying shapes, orientations, or positions
Large-area defect detection
Identify subtle surface defects across large parts and wide fields of view with extreme accuracy and consistency.
Specifications
In-Sight Vision Controller Specifications
| In-Sight Vision Controller 6900 | Value |
|---|---|
| Discrete Inputs | 4 general purpose inputs |
| Discrete Outputs | 4 high-speed and 4 low-speed general purpose outputs |
| Status Outputs | Pass/Fail LED and Indicator Ring, Network LED and Error LED, EtherCAT Status LEDs |
| Network Communications | 2x 5Gb Ethernet ports, 1x 1Gb Port for Data Communication & Configuration 1x 1Gb Port for Industrial Ethernet |
| Communication Protocols | Industrial Ethernet(PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, SLMP, ModbusTCP) & Data Communication(MQTT, TCP/IP, (S)FTP) |
| In-Sight Vision Controller 6900 | Value |
|---|---|
| Weight (g) | 570 |
| Maximum Operating Temperature (°C) | 40 |
| Minimum Operating Temperature (°C) | 0 |
| Maximum Storage Temperature (°C) | 80 |
| Minimum Storage Temperature (°C) | -20 |
| Materials | Die-cast aluminum and zinc housing. |
| In-Sight Vision Controller 6900 | Value |
|---|---|
| Shock (Shipping and Storage) | IEC 60068-2-27: 30g over 18ms, half-sine, |
| Vibration (Shipping and Storage) | EC 60068-2-6: vibration test in each of the three main axis for 10 cycles from 10Hz to 500Hz with 100m/s² acceleration or 0.75mm amplitude. |
| In-Sight Vision Controller 6900 | Value |
|---|---|
| Job Program Memory (GB) | 16 |
| Image Storage | 256GB non-volatile flash memory; unlimited storage via remote network device. |
Support
Best-in-class technology and tailored guidance to easily plan, deploy, and expand any vision project
Our devices can see even the smallest details with unrivaled accuracy, every time. Our industry-leading support works the way you want, from self-service resources to a global network of experts.
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