Projects

Real projects on real production lines

Vision systems we've designed and installed, from medical devices to smart cards.

Projects shown
11
Industries
>8
In service since
2001

Project case studies

IV drip chamber samples: good, missing tube, twisted tube and short insertion

<0.01%defect rate, too rare for manual checks

Medical

IV drip chamber

Rare twisted or short tube insertions escaped repeated manual inspection.

  • Tube present
  • Insertion depth
  • Twisted tube
  • Short insert
Vision images checking the injection tube on a dialysate solution bag

100%on-line, inspected on the fly

Dialysate solution bag
Medical

Dialysis solution bag

Automatically inserted injection tubes could go missing, short, twisted or slanted.

  • Insertion depth
  • Tube present
  • Twisted
  • Slanted
Vision check of rubber insertion in a row of pharmaceutical tubes, with one fault circled

2camera stations

Calibrated height measurement Seal width measurement
Medical

Pharmaceutical tub insertion

Quality issues in rubber insertion and PVC sealing, checked at two stations.

  • Rubber insertion
  • PVC sealing
  • Seal height
Epoxy dispensing inspection showing glue presence, absence, insufficient glue and a glue break

4glue conditions detected

Epoxy dispenser vision system Epoxy inspection regions Epoxy inspection software
Epoxy

Epoxy dispensing

Glue wasn't dispensed with 100% assurance.

  • Glue present
  • Size
  • Position
  • Breaks
Capacitor epoxy fill inspection: good unit, under-fill and overflow defects

2camera angles

Horizontal camera view of capacitor epoxy
Epoxy

Capacitor epoxy fill

Every capacitor checked for correct epoxy fill from two angles.

  • Under-fill
  • Over-fill
  • Overflow on cap
  • Damaged lead
3D design of the turnkey gasket measurement machine

Turnkeymachine + vision

Gasket outline measurement Gasket hole measurement Gasket edge measurement
Rubber

Gasket measurement

100% measurement to cut direct labour cost.

  • Intrusion
  • Deformation
  • Protrusion
Inspection software checking a black rubber part for surface defects

10defect types

Rubber

Hard-disk rubber parts

Defects on black rubber were hard to see and subjective to judge.

  • Cracks
  • Flash
  • Non-fill & torn
  • Chip-off
  • Metal offset
Vision software reading the lot number, expiry date and barcode on a pharmaceutical carton label

2labels matched per carton

Pharmaceutical carton labels
OCR · Pharma

Pharma label verification

Mixed-up labels or wrong expiry dates on the two sides of a carton.

  • OCR
  • Barcode
  • Expiry date
  • Side-to-side match
Four corner guide pins of a plastic part combined into one camera image

4 → 1corners in one image

Optics set-up Guide pin close-up
Plastics

Plastic guide pins

Four corner pins needed four cameras, until optics combined them into one image.

  • Pin presence
  • 4-corner optics
Connector pins, the inspection station and the results screen

In-lineinspection

Electronics

Connector inspection

In-line vision inspection of connector pins.

  • Connector pins
  • Results logging
TagView measuring gaps and shifts between smart-card tag tracks

118 msper part at 450 mm/s

Smart cards

TagView high-speed gauging

On-the-fly gauging of smart-card tags with ±0.1 mm accuracy.

  • Gap
  • Y-shift
  • Beta-shift
  • ±0.1 mm

Industries

Where we work

  • Electronics & semiconductor
  • Medical & pharma
  • Connectors
  • Rubber
  • Plastics
  • Epoxy
  • OCR & traceability
  • Smart cards & more

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