Specim FX Series
The Specim FX Series brings hyperspectral material identification to industrial production lines, conveyor systems, sorting machines, and laboratory scanners.
Unlike conventional cameras that primarily evaluate color, shape, and surface appearance, an FX camera records spectral information for every spatial pixel. This makes it possible to distinguish visually similar materials according to differences in composition or spectral response.
All FX models use push-broom line-scan imaging, making them suitable for continuously moving products and materials. The series covers five spectral regions, allowing system designers to select the wavelength range that best matches the inspection task.
Specim FX10 – VNIR, 400–1000 nm
The FX10 covers the visible and near-infrared region and provides 1024 spatial pixels.
It is suitable for applications such as food inspection, agriculture and vegetation analysis, color and surface characterization, printing inspection, phenotyping, mineral analysis, and selected surface or coating inspections.
Specim FX17 – NIR, 900–1700 nm
The FX17 extends into the near-infrared region, where spectral measurements can distinguish properties that may not be visible to the human eye. Applications include food and feed quality control, plastics and waste sorting, recycling, moisture measurement, textile analysis, and security-related inspection.
Specim FX19 – Extended NIR/SWIR, 1130–1920 nm
The FX19 extends farther into the infrared range and is optimized for high-throughput material identification.
With 640 spatial pixels and frame rates up to 527 fps, it is particularly suited to plastics, paper, and electronic-waste sorting; textile recycling; foil and thin-film inspection; and selected pharmaceutical applications. Its GigE Vision interface, built-in image enhancement, and unified spectral calibration support integration into industrial and research systems
Specim FX50 – MWIR, 2.7–5.3 µm
The FX50 operates in the mid-wave infrared region, providing access to spectral features not available to VNIR or conventional NIR cameras. Typical applications include black-plastic sorting, mineral and hydrocarbon analysis, contamination detection on metal surfaces, scientific research, and selected safety or security applications.
Specim FX120 – LWIR, 7.7–12.3 µm
The FX120 captures spatial and spectral information across 160 bands in the long-wave infrared region.
Its LWIR coverage supports applications such as mineral mapping, drill-core analysis, environmental analysis, thermal-anomaly detection, gas classification, and safety or security inspection.
Inline Material Identification
The push-broom architecture of the FX Series is optimized for moving targets. Products pass beneath the camera while the system creates a hyperspectral dataset containing spatial and spectral information.
Depending on the selected model, an FX system can identify materials, detect contamination, inspect coatings, evaluate moisture-related variation, separate recyclables, or map mineral composition.
Inspection is optical and non-contact, allowing products to be analyzed without physical handling or damage.
Industrial Integration
Specim FX cameras use GigE Vision connectivity for integration with industrial computers, machine-vision software, and automated inspection equipment.
Applicable models also provide built-in image correction and unified spectral calibration. These functions reduce preprocessing requirements and support consistent measurements when multiple cameras are deployed.
