...Yu Zhu; Jun Yang; Hongwei Zhang; Wenmin Zhu; Jie Wang; Zelin Zhou Purpose Marking and inspecting are key steps in hull structure construction. However, currently most marking and inspecting operations are still carried out manually, which leads to low assembly efficiency and quality. This paper...

... Image processing Inspection Fastening machine vision The assembly of critical fasteners usually involves a torque check to verify assembly completion. In the automotive industry, safety-critical fasteners include those in suspension, airbag, brake assemblies and others. Currently, pneumatic...

...Wen-Yang Chang; Chih-Ping Tsai Purpose – This study aims to investigate the spectral illumination characteristics and geometric features of bicycle parts and proposes an image stitching method for their automatic visual inspection. Design/methodology/approach – The unrealistic color casts...

...Quan Yu; Kesheng Wang Purpose Product quality inspection is of importance in manufacturing industries to ensure that low quality or unqualified products are not delivered to the consumer. Human inspection has many limitations such as low accuracy or speed due to factors such as tiredness...

...Shih‐Wei Yang; Chern‐Sheng Lin; Shir‐Kuan Lin; Shu‐Hsien Fu; Mau‐Shiun Yeh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an automatic optical inspection system for measuring the surface profile of a microlens array. Design/methodology/approach The system set‐up was constructed according...

... implementation, better communication protocol such as DeviceNET would be used to eliminate any significant latency in the system. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Assembly Sensors Image processing 3‐D image processing Sensor review Flaw detection Intelligent sensors Inspection...

...Shaniel Davrajh; Glen Bright Purpose Quality control and part inspection add no monetary value to a product, yet are essential processes for manufacturers who want to maintain product quality. Mass‐produced custom parts require processes that are able to perform high frequency of inspection...

...Karen Conneely; Chern‐Sheng Lin; Kuo‐Chun Wu; Yun‐Long Lay; Chi‐Chin Lin; Jim‐Min Lin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an automatic pattern matching template generating method for the automatic optical inspection system in TFT LCD assembly and positioning process, to improve...

...Mauro Onori; Robert Bogue Purpose This paper aims to describe a new optical geometrical inspection technique and its applications by Volvo Cars. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses the limitations of contact probe‐based coordinate measurement machines scanning, describes a new...

...Chern‐Sheng Lin; Yo‐Chang Liao; Yun‐Long Lay; Kun‐Chen Lee; Mau‐Shiun Yeh Purpose The purpose of this research is to develop an automatic optical inspection system for thin film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD). Design/methodology/approach A new algorithm that accounts...

... and ultrasonic weld inspection for parts assembly. Findings Over the space of the last three or four years, the management of BMW Group has increased significantly the stature of its UK manufacturing units with the aim of increasing the diversity of models produced, while at the same time achieving greater...

... to assessing damage and automatically repairing composite fibre structures. Design/methodology/approach Leading companies in design and construction of advanced composite fibre production machinery are teaming with other technology leaders to further automate the inspection, damage assessment and repair...

... in verifying the prescription, the image of the prescription order, a picture of the correct pill and the image of the bottle contents are displayed together on a screen for his inspection. If he determines anything is incorrect, he can “flag” the puck/bottle to be sent to a manual correction station...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Inspection Tracking Pharmaceutical products Technifor and Cognex guarantee complete security and traceability of biological samples for Central Labo Europe Keywords: Inspection, Tracking, Pharmaceutical products...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Inspection Image sensors No PLC required for new Cognex checker sensor Keywords: Inspection, Image sensors Cognex, a leading supplier of machine vision sensors, has announced Checker™101E, a new model...

... how today's systems have improved. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Inspection Pattern recognition Cameras This ability to recognise and accurately locate components regardless of their rotation is an advantage for automated assembly in many other industries, because...

...‐contacting CMM system for production line control and inspection, the “Advent”. Depending on the nature of the application and the measurement speed required, the price of the Advent system will be somewhere within the ∈200,000‐500,000 range. Whilst the first application was for car body measurements...

...E.R. Davies; Cao Qixin; Fu Zhuang; Xia Nianjiong; F.L. Lewis Purpose In this paper, an optical inspection method of the ball grid array package(BGA) is proposed using a binocular machine vision system. Design/methodology/approach The height of each solder ball is calculated based on spatial...

...E.R. Davies; Antonio López; Ernest Valveny; Juan José Villanueva Purpose In the last years, artificial vision systems have widely spread among quality control processes in many industries. In this paper we present an artificial vision system that automatically inspects sachets of surgical material...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Inspection Metronics' easy-to-use ”Go/No-Go” inspection set to USURP co-ordinate measuring Keywords: Inspection According to Jonathan Tate, Metrology Manager at control and inspection specialist ACI Europe “The co...