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Advanced Illumination

Over 30 years designing LED machine vision lighting for the demands of industrial inspection: intensity, repeatability and reliability as standard.

About Advanced Illumination

Advanced Illumination (AI) is one of the most established names in machine vision lighting. Founded in 1996 in Rochester, Vermont, AI designs and manufactures LED illuminators for industrial inspection, measurement and guidance, supplying OEMs, integrators and end users across manufacturing, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, electronics and logistics. Exaktera is the authorised distributor for Advanced Illumination across the UK and Europe.

30+Years in machine vision lighting
500+Standard product configurations
10+Illuminator families
IP67Washdown rating available
Product Range

The full range of illuminator geometries

The AI range covers every major illuminator geometry used in machine vision: ring lights, bar lights, backlights, dark-field illuminators, coaxial lights, dome lights, spot lights, line lights and UV systems. Each family is available in multiple wavelengths and form factors, with IP-rated and washdown-compatible models across most product families.

Where an application demands a specific optical geometry not met by the standard catalogue (a non-standard wavelength combination, an unusual form factor, or an OEM integration requiring a custom drive), AI’s custom engineering capability covers the gap.

Custom LED illumination module from ProPhotonix integrated into a machine vision system
Industrial Design

Built for the environments inspection runs in

AI illuminators are designed for the physical demands of industrial inspection: continuous operation at elevated ambient temperatures, chemical and washdown exposure in food and pharmaceutical environments, and the vibration and shock loads of high-throughput production lines. IP ratings, thermal management and electrical compliance are engineered in, not retrofitted.

The result is a product that maintains its photometric specification across the operating lifetime, not just at commissioning. For a machine vision system, illumination consistency is the foundation everything else is built on.

Electronics engineer inspecting a computer chip — precision LED illumination for semiconductor inspection

Specify the right Advanced Illumination product.

Our applications team has worked with the Advanced Illumination range for years. Tell us your inspection task, camera and environment and we’ll recommend the right illuminator.