NER Machine Vision Lighting products are manufactured under the brand name of NERLITE. NERLITE is widely recognized around the globe as the "standard" for machine vision illumination and machine vision imaging. Our products are designed with practical, cost-effective technologies. The NERLITE brand encompasses a wide selection of products, including:

• Area Arrays, Spot Lights, Linear Arrays (Line Lights), Ring Lights, or Dome Illuminators
• Backlight and Dark-Field Illuminators
• DOAL^® & COAL – Diffuse On-Axis Light^® & Collimated On-Axis Coaxial Lights
• SCDI^® – Square Continuous Diffuse Illuminator
• CDI^® – “Cloudy Day^®" Continuous Diffuse Illuminator
• MAXlite–Multi-Axis Light
• and also NERLITE designed custom illuminators for OEMs

NERLITE machine vision lighting products are designed to control "light delivery" to the CCD array (camera.) There are many lighting techniques to choose from including: ring lights, dark-field lights, backlights, coaxial (on axis) lights, continuous diffuse lights, dome lights, area arrays, line lights and spot lights. For a starting point in choosing the best lighting technique for your machine vision imaging application, see our light selection chart.

NERLITE Machine Vision Illumination Products are engineered and manufactured to high quality standards to meet the needs of industrial applications. By following the practices outlined in our Care and Maintenance sheet, your standard NERLITE products will meet warranty qualification requirements and provide years of trouble-free service.

NERLITE products can be found in the majority of applications that involve machine vision imaging. They are also found in automated identification applications, particularly those using 2-D symbologies (Data Matrix, PDF-417, Maxicode, etc.) with direct parts marking.

Markets served with NERLITE products include: electronics, semiconductor, automotive, pharmaceutical, packaging, mail-sorting, warehousing and general manufacturing.

NERLITE machine vision lighting products use a variety of sources to complement our lighting techniques. In addition to our core LED (light emitting diode) technology, the sources include fiber optic, xenon strobe, CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp), fluorescent, halogen, electro-luminescent panels and metal halide.