„That’s our way“: The new Kappa handbook shows you our way of working. We combine our competency in industrial production with the ability to understand specific application contexts, allowing us to work together with the client to develop a camera solution, and to produce it reliably, efficiently, and with quality assured – be it for 20 or 2000 at a time.
That’s our way.
Kappa is one of the few camera manufacturers with comprehensive knowhow in the development and manufacture of extremely rugged cameras. We develop, design and manufacture camera systems for applications in extreme environmental conditions. For
more than 15 years, Kappa cameras have been used in the aerospace industry, military vehicles and industrial machines. These environments require absolute resistance to mechanical, climatic and electromagnetic stress as well as to surrounding substances and environmental impacts.
In many cases, for reasons of availability and cost we have to use industrystandard components. This makes it difficult to meet the requirements on EMC, resistance to temperature, shock and vibration. Thus, from the beginning, the technical design has to focus on these specific requirements, for example by using heat sinks or shock absorbers. Standard circuits or modules may hardly ever be used. Proof of origin is required for all components. We prepare our special cameras to resist extreme stress such as:
All required technical characteristics are analytically defi ned and then metrologically verifi ed on the object. Specifi c knowledge and/or development environments are necessary,
e.g. for MTBF calculations, thermal analysis or mechanical stress analysis. The prototype tests for verifi cation of specifi c characteristics take place in specifi c installations. These are, for example, shock and vibration tests on shakers; temperature and climate tests
in climatic chambers; overvoltage, and EMC tests. We offer all these analytical methods and tests for our products and execute them either on our own or in cooperation with external partners.