Imaging Products Group Commitment

Imaging Products Group celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2007. Since its establishment, IPG has been committed to partnering with our customers to meet their unique Remote Visual Inspection needs. In doing so, we’ve earned the trust of our customers and we do not take this lightly.

We understand that being responsible to our customers goes far beyond the fundamental requirement of delivering an imaging product that meets our customer’s needs. We excel at making the entire customer experience – from product development to inventory management – an experience that allows our customers to focus on their business.

We welcome the opportunity to earn your trust.

  Bill Williams
  Chairman, IPG

Imaging Products Group Product Development

When you partner with IPG, you are partnering with a dedicated group of professionals who understand the needs of manufacturers and systems integrators.

IPG was formed ten years ago to support its parent company’s systems group. IPG’s purpose was to facilitate the development of custom products. It is from this base of experience that IPG expanded its support and grew its business to support other manufacturers in need of visual imaging product integration.

We understand our role. As a manufacturer, you require a stable, reliable vendor base and, at the same time, you need to control your costs. We believe that a comprehensive approach to our customer relationships fulfills both of these needs. And with that said, we understand that quality can not be compromised for the sake of cost control.

However, we also understand that cost control can not be defined solely by the price of our imaging products. Streamlined product development… product quality and performance…. product support…. inventory management… on-time deliveries…. compliance with your purchasing department procedures…. shipping documentation…. compliance with accounting invoicing requirements… all of these impact your total cost for our products and this is where we excel.

We assign a dedicated customer support representative to your account whose goal is to not to simply comply with your fundamental requirements but to act as an extension of your organization in order to save you both time and money. We understand that managing projects with multiple vendors can be a daunting task and our goal is to be a seamless part of your organization.

IPG Manufacturing Partners

When you partner with IPG, you are partnering with a dedicated group of professionals who understand the needs of manufacturers and systems integrators. To ensure that we provide the best solution for any visual inspection, we’ve joined forces with many of the leading manufacturers of RVI equipment – all of whom are experts in their fields. IPG’s distributorship with these companies, which are detailed below, goes far beyond a manufacturer – vendor association. We’ve developed close working relationships with each of these manufacturers built upon mutual trust and the understanding that IPG’s customers are their customers. Put our partnerships to work for you. Just one call to IPG and you have an extensive network of experts and pooled resources working together to solve your inspection requirements.

IT CONCEPTS

IT Concepts is a privately owned U.S. corporation with its headquarters in Pleasanton, California. The company has design and manufacturing expertise in areas such as optics, fiber optics, video electronics and fine mechanics. Since 1990, these broad-based resources have allowed IT Concepts to respond quickly to the demands of customers and create practical and cost effective solutions for demanding applications in the field of Remote Visual Inspection (RVI).

The company offers an extensive range of RVI products to customers throughout the world. They provide products with features that are necessary for the user without pushing customers to buy features that are expensive, but not really necessary. IT Concepts core is “Where RVI Performance Meets Value”.

The IT Concepts flagship product is the iTool System which features iSeries Videoscopes.

ZIBRA CORPORATION

Founded in 1984 to answer a need for high quality, small-diameter borescopes, Zibra Corporation has grown to become the premier designer and producer of today’s rigid, semi-rigid and flexible microborescope systems. Using the latest in subminiature optics and optical fiber, Zibra Corp. creates tools to navigate previously inaccessible areas, delivering images of unprecedented resolution. Headquartered in Westport, MA, their unique capability is providing both optical and mechanical design, production, and applications support all under one roof.

Committed to providing the highest levels of customer service, Zibra Corp has the capability to produce a wide variety of visual inspection equipment, including scopes to handle difficult applications such as pipe inspections, high radiation / temperature environments, non-metallic scopes, custom shaped probes and medical device design. These examples represent a sampling of the different problems they routinely solve for their long list of industrial, military and governmental customers. Whether it is one of their standard products or a custom solution, Zibra Corp can provide you with the equipment needed to complete your inspection both quickly and economically.

WOHLER

Wöhler designs and manufactures test equipment, visual inspection systems and innovative tools for Oilheat, Natural Gas and Propane, Plumbing and Heating, HVAC, Energy Conservation, NDT, and Chimney Sweep industries worldwide. Wöhler has a comprehensive line of inspection products employing modern, low light CCD and CMOS chips, pan and tilt technology, small 1 inch waterproof camera heads as well as rigid and flexible endoscopes.

Since 1916, Wöhler has developed and produced high quality inspection equipment for use in such diverse fields and areas as building maintenance, power plants, home inspection, military, search and rescue, heating and ventilation, plumbing and sewer pipe inspection, and even underwater inspections. The company’s product range covers more than 3,000 items, from combustion analyzing computers to complete pipe inspection kits often referred to as sewer cameras. Wöhler’s design team of physicists, chemists, and electrical and mechanical engineers works closely with customers to ensure products exceed the most exacting quality, performance, and regulatory standards. In addition, all work is done in close cooperation with the German Environmental Protection Agency, the Chimney Sweep Federation, and the Heating Trade Union according to the current guidelines.

EFER

Manufacturing endoscopes since 1980, EFER offers a full endoscopic product line including Swing Prism, Orbital Scan, Measuring, Zoom, Ultra-Violet, and Nuclear borescopes; Videoscopes such as the ARGUS 600 Videoendoprobe system; and Fiberscopes. EFER also manufactures an innovative line of lighting and optical accessories zoom or fixed focal length video couplers, and insertion tools to compliment their endoscopic equipment. The wide range of technical expertise granted by EFER also permits the design and manufacture of complex endoscopic vision systems to specific customer requirements.

Widely established in the aeronautical, automotive, and nuclear fields, EFER has references from prestigious companies such as Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, Rolls Royce, Bombardier, Framatome, and many more. EFER is at the forefront of a borescopic tooling range supplied for the inspection of the main military and commercial aircraft engines in service worldwide.

Approved by the American FDA and the Japanese JETRO, EFER is well accepted as a designer and mass producer for specific medical and dental endoscopic OEM products. EFER's Modular EFER-DUMON bronchoscope is the "reference" in bronchoscopic instrumentation for over 20 countries.

HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC AMERICA

Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd (formerly Hitachi Denshi America) was formed in 1963, and is headquartered in Woodbury, New York. Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. is a worldwide supplier of video cameras and related video equipment to the industrial, medical, scientific, security, telecommunications and broadcast markets.

For over 40 years, the Industrial Video Systems Division (IVS), of Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. has been selling miniaturized, solid state, analog and digital cameras that are used in the imaging, vision and security markets. Hitachi offers one of the largest families of cameras of any manufacturer in the imaging industry. From high definition to board cameras, Hitachi is committed to manufacturing cameras to the highest quality standards. All of the cameras in the product line are manufactured under quality control certification in accordance with the ISO 9002 international standards. This assures the end user of a quality camera that works properly “out of the box”.

MORITEX

Since its establishment in 1973, Moritex has provided the market with continuously improved fiberoptic, machine vision, automated optical alignment equipment, automated bio equipment, and spherical and optical technologies as Moritex Core Technologies. Moritex products are key devices and systems which help lead the world market towards the 21st Century.

Moritex products support high tech industries such as semiconductor manufacturing, electronic equipment, electro-optical systems, machine vision imaging systems, telecommunications, information technology (IT), bio-science and laboratory automation. Moritex has steadily expanded and grown by providing various products developed through carefully reading and reacting to the markets' messages, trends and information and listed its stock market of JASDAQ in 1997. Moritex entered the 1st section of Tokyo Stock Exchange in December, 2000.

TOSHIBA IMAGING SYSTEMS DIVISION

Toshiba Imaging Systems Division (Irvine, CA) is the premier supplier of high quality video cameras for machine vision, R&D and scientific applications. Advanced video imaging technology and high resolution cameras such as Toshibas innovative 3-chip CCD color cameras and their remote head camera family has earned Toshiba Imaging Systems Division the distinctive reputation for offering the most advanced imaging solutions to the industrial and scientific communities.

A leader in advanced 3CCD video imaging, Toshiba Imaging recently introduced the world’s smallest high definition camera head and ultra-compact control unit, the IK-HD1 3CCD HDTV Camera. Small (1.6 in.) and lightweight (only 2.3 oz.), the revolutionary HD color camera system is ideal for applications where size and weight are critical.