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Many plastic components are made using the injection moulding process where molten plastic is forced into a mould and left to cool. Inspecting the mould and finished part is critical to ensuring quality is upheld, especially in high-speed production lines.
Even the sharpest human eye can miss critical defects. Fatigue, distractions, and boredom conspire to prevent defects from being spotted, particularly if they are not obvious. Manual detailed examination of injection moulded parts is a time-consuming process, and unsuitable for use in a production line.
There are a range of common defects found in plastic moulded components such as flow lines, sink marks, warping, weld lines, shorts shots, flashes, and burn marks. Depending on the application, such as in avionics and military, some of these may be critical to the application or appearance. Due to the manufacturing volume of these parts, manual human inspection is not be suitable.
The Inspekto S70 autonomous machine vision system is an out-of-the-box inspection solution, that can be set up in 30 minutes, learns like a human and inspects like a machine, combining machine precision with the adaptability of human sight to the production line. Its cutting-edge AI technology is trained from “good” components, not predefined defects, making it incredibly easy to set up. It intelligently identifies flaws in injection moulded parts while automatically ignoring non-critical variations like serial numbers.
The S70 is built for speed and efficiency. It is tolerant of orientation and positioning and can scan plastic components placed in the camera’s field of view, and on a conveyor belt, at rates exceeding 40ppm. These defects are identified in red on the displayed or recorded image to facilitate rework. This powerful blend of speed, accuracy, and autonomy transforms your quality control process, ensuring you catch what others miss with this AI inspection system.
The S70 can be used on many materials/components, including Electrical Components, Metal, PCBs, plastic, and rubber. This capability makes it an ideal solution for products such as injection moulded components where it can identifysink marks, pores, dents and flashing, electrical connectors-presence/missing/position, soldering on PCB’s, integrity & milling swarf in metal components, position and presence of labels, verification of coatings and O ring placement.
Toolmakers' Measuring Microscope
Unmatched precision for industrial metrology & quality controlThe eviXscan Quadro+ is an industrial structured light 3D Scanner designed for capturing intricate details on components in high resolution. It can be used for precision metrology, quality control, reverse engineering and rapid prototyping application and is unique in having dual scanning ranges.Utilising a blue LED light source and 4 high resolution cameras (two 12 Mpix for the inner range and two 9 Mpix for the outer range) to capture highly accurate 3D data. The inner range, designed for smaller, more intricate objects, offers a point density of 351 pts/mm² and the outer range, for larger objects, provides a point density of 88 pts/mm² allowing high resolution measurementThe eviXscan Quadro+ delivers exceptional measurement accuracy, validated by VDI/VDE 2634 Part 2 standards, with precision down to 0.007 mmDespite its unparalleled precision it can scan an object in as little as 1.2 seconds with an inner range measuring approximately 220 x 160 x 90 mm and large objects with an outer range of roughly 450 x 225 x 180 mm.Designed for the rigours of the production environment and provided with he intuitive eviXscan 3D Suite software, which provides powerful tools for point cloud processing, mesh editing, and data export to common formats like STL, OBJ, and PLY. This software also allows for the seamless combination of scan data from both inner and outer ranges, providing a complete 3D representation of an objectThe eviXscan Quadro plus many uses in many industries including Automotive, Aerospace and Defence, Heavy Industry and Machinery Manufacturing, Electronics & Consumer Goods, Tooling, Molds, and Dies, Research & Development / Academia and medical.
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