Vision and multisensor inspection goes mainstream

Miniaturization and advanced materials are cutting costs and improving the utility of all sorts of mechanical and electromechanical products. Manufacturing engineers are thereby looking for ways to measure and analyze such components quickly and accurately during product development and production....

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Veröffentlicht in:Machine Design 2011-01, Vol.83 (1), p.47
1. Verfasser: Stalker, Marc
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Miniaturization and advanced materials are cutting costs and improving the utility of all sorts of mechanical and electromechanical products. Manufacturing engineers are thereby looking for ways to measure and analyze such components quickly and accurately during product development and production. A big barrier to the primary use of vision and multi-sensor devices in advanced metrology has been the perception that adjusting systems for appropriate lighting, contrast, and edge-detection sensitivity took specialized knowledge beyond that of average users. Until recently, quality assurance (QA) was one of the biggest bottlenecks in product development for small high-tech components. Advances in vision and multisensor software technology now let many harried QA technicians keep up with the frenetic pace of development. Advanced inspection equipment can now operate within a broader enterprise metrology framework that allows for the integration of dimensional data and analyses into any phase of the manufacturing process from design through final inspection.
ISSN:0024-9114
1944-9577