Quality assurance with industrial image processing
visicontrol's solutions are used in a wide range of industries for automation and quality assurance with industrial image processing. The successful use of visicontrol solutions is guaranteed by intensive communication and familiarisation with the customer's processes and the industry-specific boundary conditions. In this way, not only are current tasks successfully processed, but further developments are also driven forward.
Automotive
The automotive industry and its suppliers place the highest demands on quality and costs. For decades, visicontrol systems have been used wherever the delivery quality of mass-produced parts needs to be guaranteed. visicontrol supports its customers in their zero-defect strategy.
Typical test tasks:
- Dimensional checks in the µm range
- Surface inspection (e.g. discolouration, rust, damage)
- Presence check
- Position and location
- Identification
(Barcode, DMC, QR) - Topographical defects
(scratches, dents, blowholes, grooves, chatter marks)
Electronic components
In the electronics industry, visicontrol's image processing solutions are used not only to monitor assembly lines but also to inspect components such as connectors, connecting elements, fuses and ceramic components.
The primary tasks are:
- Dimensional inaccuracy
- Completeness
- Position and location
- Surface defects
- Pin tip control
- 360° control
- Discolourations
- and much more
Food industry
In addition to the inspection of the food itself, packaging is of central importance for the automation of quality assurance in the food sector. Machine vision offers the ideal solution for this thanks to its person-independent 100% inspection with traceable inspection criteria.
The main tasks here are
- Packaging control
- Location and position
- Presence
- Identification via OCR
- Best before date (BBD)
- Shape and volume
- Colour
- Degree of browning
- Sprinkling
- Homogeneity
- and much more
Technical plastics
In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis on the automated inspection of parts and assembly monitoring, particularly in the field of injection moulding. visicontrol contributes its expertise in automation in addition to image processing.
The typical questions in this area relate to
- Dimensional inaccuracy
- Over and under injections
- Breakouts
- Cracks, blowholes
- Burns, discolouration
- webbed feet
- Nest recognition (OCR)
- Identification (Barcode, DMC, QR)
- Flow error
- and much more
Medical technology, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics
The pharmaceutical and medical technology industries face the particular challenge of absolute reliability and continuous documentation and traceability of results. Industrial image processing offers the ideal solution thanks to its 100% person-independent inspection with traceable test criteria.
The main tasks here are
- Packaging control
- Fill level control
- Contamination control
- Completeness check
- Location and position
- Presence check
- Identification via OCR, DMC, QR, Barcode
Special machine construction
Special machine builders and testing machine builders use specialised systems from visicontrol to solve complex tasks with image processing and other sensor technology. visicontrol provides support here as a system supplier with complete solutions or supplies the necessary individual components for integration by the special machine builder.
Metal processing
Wherever metal parts are manufactured, visicontrol can be found. Our systems inspect and sort mass-produced parts in machining centres with maximum precision and speed.
Typical test tasks:
- Turning
- Long turning
- Milling
- Punching
- Cold forming
- Pressing
- Casting
One focus here is on fasteners and sealing elements. The following topics in particular are examined in these areas:
- Dimensional inaccuracy
- Presence
- Position and location
- Surface defects
- Cracks
- Blowholes and pores
- Impact marks and grooves
- Chips
- OCR/Datamatrixcode
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