(PPT VISION: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION Inc. announces a new standard API (application programming interface) that uses the Microsoft ActiveX platform to provide industry standard connectivity, linking, and embedding. ActiveX control is now built into PPT VISION’s IMPACT Software Suite 8.3, which runs on all PPT VISION IMPACT smart cameras, delivering easy-to-use, advanced inspection capabilities to a broad range of machine vision applications.

“Users requiring tightly integrated software control can now seamlessly embed PPT VISION inspection data and control into their own control or SCADA software,” says Sean O'Driscoll, executive vice president of PPT VISION. “With IMPACT 8.3, machine vision inspections can be integrated as a critical component of production process control.”

The new IMPACT ActiveX control API operates with common programming languages (such as VB.NET) and includes sample programs in VB.NET, C#, Visual Basic 6, and Microsoft Excel. Along with the new ActiveX control API, IMPACT 8.3 features Control Panel Manager (CPM), which provides a simpler way to create custom machine operator interfaces for monitoring and controlling PPT VISION inspections.

The new IMPACT 8.3 Software Suite also includes setups that reduce both the learning curve and time it takes to program PPT VISION inspections. Other IMPACT 8.3 features of note include:

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