High‐speed Assembly Force Monitoring for Quality Control Available to Purchase

Quality, as one of the principal factors in manufacturing success, must be controlled in a manner appropriate to the technology of manufacture. In a flexible, automated production environment, inspection and quality control systems must be effectively designed for automation and integration. Some of the considerations of quality system integration are addressed, and an application of automated inspection in assembly is described in its context as part of an integrated system of quality control. In this application, an analysis is used of the force signature of a high‐speed automated assembly operation to detect error conditions and report quality information.