Inspection Market
In today’s environment being able to ensure the quality, reliability and safety of products and components is critical in maintaining the confidence and satisfaction of customers and in reducing the threat of potential litigation resulting from product failure or contamination.
In the case of high volume safety critical and /or high value added components and assemblies, there is an increasing requirement for manufacturers to have to verify to their customers that 100% of the products have been correctly assembled.
Simple functional testing, if possible, will not confirm the position, size, and integrity of concealed components within a system, nor detect the presence of hidden foreign bodies that could lead to premature failure of the system or even in extreme cases injury to an end user.
Batch sample testing alone may not be sufficient to meet many customers’ demands for zero failure rates, demonstrating the need for in-line, 100% testing of both internal and external features.
Conventional industry practice has been to employ in-line inspection techniques based on optical or metal detector solutions to find faults or contaminants. However, optical methods may not accurately discover product faults where features are concealed, and metal detectors have poor performance when the product is either contained in metal foil or the contaminant is non-metallic (e.g.: glass, stone, bone or dense plastic). These limitations have particular relevance for the automotive, pharmaceutical and food/beverage industries.
Responding to market needs for better inspection tools, the Image Scan Group has developed a range of powerful 3D and 2D X-ray inspection tools which can be incorporated into the production line to inspect 100% of the products at full production speed.
