Textiles/Plastics

More precise detection of wafer/chip defects

AI algorithms can accurately identify subtle nano-scale defects like scratches, stains, and indentations on wafer/chip surfaces, while traditional AOI systems have limited capabilities in detecting these minor defects.

Automated classification of defect types

AI not only can detect the presence of defects, but also automatically categorize them into different types like scratches or foreign particle adhesion based on their characteristics (shape, size, etc.), providing a basis for subsequent analysis and handling.

Stronger pattern defect detection capabilities

The AI vision system can accurately inspect circuit patterns on wafers/chips for issues like open circuits or short circuits, whereas traditional AOI has relatively weaker abilities in this regard.

Significantly improved detection efficiency

AI-based detection is far faster than traditional AOI, enabling high-volume, inline inspection without impacting production pace, thereby enhancing manufacturing efficiency.

Reduced human intervention and subjective errors

AI-based inspection has the advantages of automation and intelligence, minimizing the subjective biases introduced by manual operations, and greatly improving the consistency of inspection quality.

Enhancing defect detection for light guide plates and diffusion boards

Optoelectronic/display products have extremely high uniformity requirements for light guide plates and diffusion boards. Any minor scratches, stains, or deformations can cause uneven brightness. AI-based vision algorithms can detect these tiny defects with high precision, whereas traditional AOI has limited capabilities in this area.

Accurate detection of fine circuit pattern defects

The metal conductive layers and circuit patterns on panels are becoming increasingly miniaturized, making it difficult for traditional AOI to fully detect subtle defects like breaks and cracks. Leveraging powerful pattern recognition capabilities, AI vision systems can detect these fine circuit defects with high accuracy.

Improved detection rate for color filter and CF defects

Color filter defects come in diverse forms, requiring inspection for issues like bright spots, dark spots, and contamination. AI technology can simultaneously detect multiple defect types, achieving a far higher detection rate compared to traditional AOI focused on single defect types.
AOI utilizes high-speed, high-precision vision processing technology to automatically inspect various assembly errors and soldering defects on PCBs, ICs, and electronic components.
The scope of PCB, IC, and electronic components can range from fine-pitch, high-density boards to low-density, large-size boards.
Online inspection solutions are provided to improve production efficiency and soldering quality.
By using AOI as a tool to reduce defects, errors can be identified and eliminated early in the assembly process, achieving good process control.
Early detection of defects will prevent bad boards from moving to subsequent assembly stages.
AOI will reduce repair costs and avoid the scrapping of unrepairable PCBs, ICs, and electronic components.

Enhancing defect detection for complex metal/mechanical components

Mechanical and automotive parts often have complex shapes, and AI algorithms can better identify subtle defects such as cracks, scratches, and deformations on these intricate, high-precision components, improving the detection coverage and accuracy.

Handling diverse metal materials and surface characteristics

Different metals like steel and aluminum have varying reflective properties, which traditional AOI systems struggle to cover comprehensively. AI systems can self-adapt by learning from extensive sample data, flexibly handling various metal materials and surface conditions.

Improving defect detection for critical functional components

For core functional components in machinery and vehicles, such as engine blocks and brake discs, AI can more precisely detect minor defects that may impact safety and service life, enhancing quality control for these critical parts.

Shortening programming time for complex product inspections

With the wide variety of mechanical and automotive products, traditional AOI requires rewriting inspection programs for each new product. AI systems can quickly learn and adapt to new products, significantly reducing the programming and deployment time.

Enhancing high-speed production line inspection adaptability

Mechanical and automotive production lines often operate at very high speeds, making detection more challenging due to increased product motion. AI-based vision inspection algorithms can better handle high-speed scenarios, ensuring stable and reliable inspection.

Real-time problem identification and resolution

Using AOI fabric inspection or plastic molding machines can instantly detect defects, allowing factories to promptly resolve issues and reduce recalls and waste. Identifying defects before shipment helps improve customer satisfaction and increase the likelihood of repeat orders.

Reducing human errors

Before replacing manual inspection, factory workers had to rely on their eyes to visually identify defects for long periods. Human errors, fatigue, and inadequate lighting can all impact manual inspection, causing defective products to slip through unnoticed. AOI fabric or plastic molding machines can mitigate such risks.

Reducing customer complaints and increasing ROI

With a well-trained identification model, AOI can easily detect a variety of fabric defects. Not only is the inspection process more streamlined, but it also reduces human oversights. Factories can then take on large-scale orders, increasing their profit potential and investment returns.

Lowering production costs

Manual fabric inspection has a limit of 20-30 minutes of concentrated effort before fatigue sets in, and prolonged operation can be harmful to eye health. Automated inspection machines effectively solve issues like labor turnover, worker fatigue, and recruitment challenges that can cause production capacity fluctuations.

More precise detection of food surface defects

AI algorithms can better identify subtle scratches, cracks, and indentations on food surfaces, whereas traditional AOI systems have limited capabilities in detecting these minor defects.

Accurate identification of foreign objects within food

Leveraging auxiliary equipment like X-rays or infrared, AI can effectively inspect food products for the presence of foreign objects, impurities, or metal contaminants, improving control over the internal quality of food.

Automated food shape recognition and grading

AI can grade and sort food products based on parameters like shape and size, ensuring they meet the specified standards, which aids in product packaging and shipping.

Rapid inspection of food packaging integrity

AI can automatically check for issues like damage or poor sealing in food packaging, enabling immediate detection of any unexpected harm during transportation.

Improved detection of subtle surface defects on medical devices

AI algorithms can precisely identify nano-scale defects like scratches, burrs, and indentations on the surfaces of medical devices such as syringes and catheters. Traditional AOI systems have limited capabilities in detecting these minor defects.

Accurate inspection of medical packaging integrity

The AI vision system can automatically inspect medical product packaging for issues like damage and seal integrity, ensuring the completeness of the sterile barrier and avoiding contamination risks during transportation.

Realization of medical label character recognition

Some medical products feature complex labels with information like batch numbers and expiration dates. AI's powerful optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities can accurately identify and verify the correctness of these labeling data.

Improved inspection efficiency and reduced human risks

The AI inspection process is highly automated and fast, enabling high-volume inline detection. This reduces the safety risks and judgment biases associated with manual operations, improving the consistency of inspection quality.

Improved detection accuracy

AI can learn the features of small, complex defects through deep learning from large datasets, surpassing human visual inspection capabilities. However, it also requires capturing high-quality images and integrating multiple feature extraction techniques to detect the smallest defects.

Flexible defect definition and classification

AI can self-learn defect characteristics, significantly reducing the manual definition efforts. It can detect defect types missed by traditional rule-based approaches, and also perform accurate classification of defect categories (e.g. scratches, bubbles). But when the defect samples are imbalanced, strategies like data augmentation and class weighting adjustments are needed.

Highly adaptive optimization of inspection

AI can automatically optimize the inspection parameters and strategies based on different glass properties, improving robustness. For curved glass surfaces, AI can integrate techniques like 3D vision to adapt to these complex 3D scenarios.

Automated, unattended operation

AI-based inspection systems can run continuously in an automated manner, improving efficiency and reducing labor costs. However, it is important to handle complex background interference issues and enhance the model's resilience to such environmental noises.

Improved detection of small defects on printed products

AI algorithms can precisely identify subtle defects on labels/printed products, such as small stains, scratches, and color variations, while traditional AOI systems have limited capabilities in detecting these minor defects.

Accurate text/code recognition Labels/printed products often feature text, barcodes, and other encoded information.

AI has powerful optical character recognition (OCR) and barcode recognition capabilities, allowing it to accurately identify and verify the correctness of these encoded data.

Efficient inspection of complex patterns and image defects

Labels and packaging often have intricate graphic designs. The AI vision system can effectively detect issues like pattern segmentation, image quality, and missing elements, whereas traditional AOI has limited abilities in handling image-related defects.

Significantly improved inspection efficiency

The AI inspection process is highly automated and fast, enabling high-volume inline detection without disrupting the production line, greatly enhancing the overall inspection efficiency.

Textiles/Plastics

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At present, most yarn factories still rely on manual inspection, which has a high missed detection rate and consumes a long time. There are many types of yarn defects, such as paper tube stains, deformation, dirty yarn, broken yarn, thrown yarn, fluff, and two-color yarn. Manual inspection is not conducive to actual quality requirements, and automatic optical inspection (AOI) is also difficult to detect when facing non-fixed defects, and the false detection rate is high, and manual re-inspection is still required. In order to allocate labor costs to more efficient work, yarn inspection should seek higher efficiency inspection solutions.Using SolVision's Segmentation technology, feature extraction is performed on various defects on paper tubes and yarns, and AI model training is performed to enable AI to learn to identify defect features and quickly and accurately find various defects. It can effectively improve the detection rate, finished product yield and reduce the quality inspection burden. With the increase in the number of learning samples, the ability of AI to identify defects can be continuously optimized, and the learning results can also be quickly introduced into various production lines.

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  1. High-speed inspection with a maximum inspection capacity of 60PCS/second (2M).
  2. AI deep learning identifies defects.
  3. Simultaneous inspection quantity can detect up to 10 areas at the same time.
  4. Inspection area 2mm2-200mm2.
  5. The inspection camera uses a 2M-25M high-speed area camera.
  6. The inspection accuracy camera is equipped with a lens resolution of 0.001mm-0.05mm.
  7. Measurement capability can detect 2M 60 frames/second or 5M 4 frames/second per second.
  8. Detailed measurement data classification is stored in different directory folders according to camera sequence, by date and order. Automatically create file names based on date and time.
  9. NG photo processing automatically generates directory folders and automatically creates file names based on date and time. During the inspection, click on the NG thumbnail or tile in the screen, and the complete photo can be popped up.
  10. Real-time measurement trend chart can display the data of the last 1000 points of each axis.
  11. The operation mode has operation mode (only display data), engineering mode (including real-time images) and commissioning mode.
Software / Hardware

Socks have a variety of defect forms, including snags, wrinkles, and tears. The shape, size and position of these defects are not fixed. Traditional AOI is suitable for the inspection of whole pieces of cloth, but it has difficulty in detecting defects that are not fixed, and it is easy to make false detections. Therefore, manual re-inspection is still required.By collecting images of sock defects such as snags and wrinkles, and using SolVision's Segmentation technology to complete the training of the AI model, it is possible to quickly and accurately find defects, classify different defects and remove defective products. This can help to control product quality and improve production efficiency. By classifying and analyzing defects, it is also possible to optimize the overall manufacturing process.

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Semi-automatic inspection equipment, fully automatic discharge, high-speed and high-precision detection, precise defect marking, authority management, size confirmation, appearance inspection, intelligent inspection data statistics, non-conforming product analysis, report output, support for remote calibration management

Software / Hardware

Engineers can use the Cognex Deep Learning defect detection tool in unsupervised mode to train the software on a set of "good" airbag images to create a reference model of the airbag. All features that deviate from the normal appearance of the model will be depicted as anomalies. In this way, Cognex Deep Learning can reliably and consistently detect all anomalies, such as pinholes, cracks, holes and unusual stitching patterns. It quickly identifies and reports areas of fabric defects, completely eliminating the need for expensive defect databases.

Software / Hardware
  1. High-speed inspection with an inspection capacity of 30 meters/minute.
  2. Maximum inspection width 360mm.
  3. Maximum roll diameter 450mm.
  4. High-resolution line scan camera uses color 8K and black and white 16K.
  5. Learning function has AI artificial intelligence function to learn to identify OK/NG products, and then inspect defects.
  6. Inspection capability can detect defects of 0.12mm2 for color and 0.06mm2 for black and white.
  7. Defect threshold can set the defect length and width threshold, and all above the threshold can be detected.
  8. Defect marking has defect marking capability, and you can choose to use a brush or laser marking.
  9. Management function has management level, engineer and operator level, and can set operation permissions.
  10. Real-time display has real-time display of scan image thumbnails and full images.
  11. Automatic recording can record the number of defects, and the statistics table and curve chart are displayed on the screen.
  12. Defect photos can be selected whether to save the defect photos.
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RGI Double-Sided Series uses conveyor belt flipping or double glass disc inspection to simultaneously inspect double-sided defects, but defects may not be screened out due to refraction or dirt through the glass.

Software / Hardware
  1. High-speed inspection with a maximum inspection capacity of 1000PCS/minute.
  2. Inspection turntable diameter 250mm-700mm.
  3. Standard machine size 850mm×width 850mm×height 1800mm.
  4. High-resolution area camera uses 1.3M-25M.
  5. Learning function has AI automatic learning function to identify OK products and then check NG defective products.
  6. Inspection capability can detect defects of 0.01mm2 for color and 0.005mm2 for black and white.
  7. Defect threshold can set the defect length and width threshold, and all above the threshold can be detected.
  8. Defect marking has defect marking capability, and the selector can be used to separate the materials into OK/NG/NULL three hoppers.
  9. Management function has management level, engineer and operator level, and can set operation permissions.
  10. Real-time display has real-time display of inspection thumbnails and full images.
  11. Automatic recording can record the number of defects, and the statistics table and curve chart are displayed on the screen.
  12. Defect photos can be selected whether to save the defect photos.
Software / Hardware

The colorful nature of ribbons makes automatic optical inspection difficult. Due to the complex fabric patterns, it is difficult to find specific feature points. Automatic optical inspection (AOI) is prone to missed detection or misjudgment of defects due to changes in patterns and colors.Using the Segmentation technology in SolVision to detect ribbons of various colors and patterns can accurately find the location, size and shape of defects such as holes and loose threads. Both the detection speed and accuracy can meet the standards. By recording and analyzing the appearance of defects, it is possible to trace back the problems in the manufacturing process and improve the product process.

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  1. Common appearance defect inspection of textile fabrics: broken warp, hairiness, color difference, dirt, white spots, creases, indentations, damage, etc.
  2. Inspectable fabrics: plain weave, knitted fabric, glass fiber fabric, non-woven fabric, bonded fabric and brushed fabric
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When using traditional automatic optical inspection to detect plastic defects, it is difficult to quantify the defects due to the variety and changing positions of the defects. It is easy to encounter the problem of insufficient defect samples, which makes it difficult to quantify the defects. This leads to insufficient detection accuracy. If manual inspection is maintained, the detection speed is relatively slow and the quality is inconsistent. There are still many difficulties in identification.By using SolVision's Segmentation technology, a defect database is established for the shape and color of rubber product defects, and then AI is used to learn the characteristics of the defects. This can identify defects of various types and positions. With the increase of learning images, the ability of AI visual inspection is continuously optimized, which significantly improves the accuracy of rubber defect identification and effectively solves the problem of unstable detection of rubber product defects.

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In the production of fasteners, the most common injection molding defects are mold release agent oil stains, white spots, burrs and debris, of which oil stains are the most difficult to detect. White spots, burrs and debris have obvious features in the image, while products with oil stains are very similar in appearance to general good products, which are difficult to detect.Using the Segmentation and Classification technology of Solomon SolVision AI image platform, deep learning is performed for each type of surface defect. After the AI model is trained, it can immediately detect all types of defects including oil stains.

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In addition to judging whether the packaging is sealed, in order to find the root cause of the problem, it is necessary to further confirm the type and cause of the incomplete seal. However, because the different types of sealing defects are very different, and the surface of the object is highly reflective, it is not easy to find and classify the defects with either the naked eye or automatic optical inspection (AOI).Combining machine vision and artificial intelligence, Solomon uses the Classification tool of SolVision to define the state of good seal from the image and compare it with multiple defects, including incomplete bottom seal, no seal on both bottom and side, and incomplete seal on both bottom and side. It can instantly detect incompletely sealed packages and classify the defects.

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NGI Glass Disc Series is a series of glass disc inspection machines that use the light transmission properties of glass to automatically detect defects on both the top and bottom of the glass disc.

Software / Hardware

NCI Conveyor Belt Series is an entry-level automatic inspection machine that is ideal for budget-conscious buyers who need to inspect products for single-sided defects.

Software / Hardware

Matrox DA4.0 software uses a flowchart-based user interface, allowing users to easily perform bottle inspection tasks through the built-in software development kit (SDK), including liquid level detection, cap, safety ring, and label height detection.

Software
  1. Full color/multi-spectral scanning (RGB CCD sensor), wide range of defect detection
  2. Multiple flash exposure technology, can simultaneously detect defects under different light sources
  3. Module linearity calibration (CCD), can effectively detect wide range of color difference defects
  4. Defect stitching is available to inspect large-sized defects
  5. Integrated encoder, can output defect map
Software / Hardware
  1. High-speed inspection with a maximum inspection capacity of 1PCS/second (2M)
  2. AI deep learning identifies defects.
  3. Adjustable inspection track.
  4. Inspection area 2mm2 -200mm2.
  5. The inspection camera uses a 2M-25M high-speed area camera.
  6. The inspection accuracy camera is equipped with a lens resolution of 0.001mm-0.05mm.
  7. Measurement capability can detect 2M 60 frames/second or 5M 4 frames/second per second.
  8. Detailed measurement data classification is stored in different directory folders according to camera sequence, by date and order. Automatically create file names based on date and time.
  9. NG photo processing automatically generates directory folders and automatically creates file names based on date and time. During the inspection, click on the NG thumbnail or tile in the screen, and the complete photo can be popped up.
  10. Real-time measurement trend chart can display the data of the last 1000 points of each axis.
  11. The operation mode has operation mode (only display data), engineering mode (including real-time images) and commissioning mode.
Software / Hardware
  1. Built-in special lens and light source
  2. Full Chinese operation interface
  3. Quick adjustment page for product fine-tuning
  4. Statistical functions (total inspected/qualified/defective quantities)
  5. Defective image storage and classification
  6. Ability to adjust settings during inspection
  7. Complete rejection mechanism planning (low/medium/high speed, contact/non-contact type)
  8. The equipment can handle up to 1000pcs/minute at the fastest
Software / Hardware
  1. Fully Chinese one-to-many operation interface
  2. One-to-many screen micro-adjustment quick page
  3. Independent statistical functions for each screen (total inspected/qualified/defective quantities)
  4. Independent defective image storage and classification for each screen
  5. Ability to adjust settings during inspection
  6. Complete rejection mechanism planning (low/medium/high speed, contact/non-contact type)
  7. Equipment can process up to 800 pcs/minute at maximum speed
  8. Separate independent mechanisms for each station
Software / Hardware

Fully automatic inspection equipment, fully automatic loading and unloading, high-speed and high-precision inspection, precise defect marking, real-time yield statistics chart, authority management, size confirmation, appearance inspection, intelligent inspection data statistics, defect analysis, report output, support remote calibration management

Software / Hardware

The system can detect defects such as line defects, area defects, foreign objects, scratches, and blisters. It also provides intelligent inspection data statistics, non-conforming product analysis, report output, and support for remote calibration management.

Software / Hardware

Combining the AI Image Recognition Platform AIWinOps delivers intelligent manufacturing solutions, applying AI + AOI techniques to industries such as petrochemicals, golf club manufacturing, semiconductors, mechanical part fabrication, and textiles.

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