PPT Vision has announced the release of the new Impact A20 intelligent camera. Together with the bundled software suite, it delivers high-end machine vision power and flexibility in a vision sensor profile. The camera is industrially rugged yet compact, offering high-performance on-board image processing, a digital imaging sensor, real-time I/O and 256 MB of on-board memory. Within the software suite, the Vision Program Manager now has more than 120 tools, including OCR, blob analysis, circle gauge, circular pattern find, line find, sub-pixel gauging and many other advanced vision tools that allow users to create vision programs to suit a broad range of applications. A pre-configured operator panel is built within VPM so inspection data and pass/fail results can be displayed at the touch of a button, right within the same software application.