美国BitFlow  www.bitflow.com
美国BitFlow 公司成立于1993年，是专业生产工业图像采集卡的开发商，并为军事、医学、科研领域及OEM提供接口板卡，在全球具有完备的销售网络。产品主要应用于机器视觉、邮政/档案检测、系列动态图像捕捉及分析、集成电路零部件检测、网络检测等。BitFlow可满足客户各方面需求，例如，相机／应用控制灵活性，零反应数据传输等
BitFlow was founded in 1993 by a group of people that had been in the imaging industry for years. The founders, having spent years developing custom hardware and specialized sub-systems, saw the emergence of the Personal Computer and thought that it could be a real machine vision tool. Moore's law, dropping memory prices, and ever increasing bus speeds opened up (and still are opening up) new opportunities to apply the PC to imaging applications. All that was needed was a fast, flexible camera interface. BitFlow's first product was based on the VESA local bus. It was the first frame grabber that didn't need an on-board display circuit. For the first time, a bus in the PC was fast enough to capture and display video in real time. For a chronological list of BitFlow firsts, click here.

BitFlow's success has largely been because of its focus on the camera interface slice of the imaging industry. We are an engineering based company. We mostly sell our own engineering, thus the support you will get will come from the office next to the person that designed the hardware/software you're using. You may even end up talking directly to the designer. We work hard on solving the difficult interfacing applications, and we work hard to make sure our solutions are flexible enough to solve your problems, no matter how complicated. Yet we strive to make our products easy to use, and painless to learn. Finally, if your having trouble or are on a tight deadline, we will support you better than anyone in the industry.

BitFlow designs all its hardware and software with the OEM in mind. Everything is designed and built to the highest possible quality standards. Most of our customers are running their equipment 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. These are in rugged environments, with constant high speed data requirements. Should something go wrong, we will be there to help get your equipment back on line as quickly as possible. Should you be looking to upgrade your systems, we'll make transistion to newer, faster equpiment as painless as possible.

Another reason to choose BitFlow is our experience. We have been designing systems that move camera data into computers since the 80's, always working on the toughest interfacing problems. We understand cameras almost as well as the people who make them. But our experience doesn't stop there, we understand that our products are only one component in a big system. Our boards have to interact with a variety of signals coming from other equipment. They have to integrate seamlessly into an wide range of applications. We know what it takes to get a machine vision application running on the factory floor, not just in the lab.

The VESA local bus is long gone, and now we are moving data at gigabytes per second, but our founding principles remain. Because of the economies of scale, the PC is, and probably always will be, the most cost effective platform for machine vision applications. All that is needed is to get the data into the machine. BitFlow combines this strategy with high quality standards, deep knowledge of the machine vision industry, a comprehensive understanding of camera interfacing, and the best support in the industry. Give us a call or shoot us an e-mail, we'll solve your imaging problems, and you can go home early.