AI-powered PCB inspection system cuts need for human specialist skills
The VT-S10 Series PCB inspection system, says the company, eliminates the need for specialist skill requirements for high-precision inspection. As the inspection of in-vehicle electronic substrates becomes increasingly difficult with the growing need for the fifth-generation mobile communication system (5G), electric vehicles (EVs), and autonomous driving, the VT-S10 is designed to perform the high-precision inspection of such key components to maintain and enhance their quality.
As substrates become more dense and miniaturized, says the company, inspection becomes more challenging, with the result that conventional PCB inspection systems struggle to take an accurate image of solder shapes, which limits the scope and parameters of inspection. Meanwhile, on production floors, amid the growing shortage of skilled workforce and humanpower in general, workers are required to avoid congestion and close contact and to limit their movement as they work to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It has thus become urgent to reduce the frequency of visual inspections and lower the experience and skill requirements for setting and starting up automated inspection equipment, in addition to advancing inspection accuracy.
To help address this, the VT-S10 is equipped with the company’s proprietary MDMC (Multi-Direction Multi-Color) imaging technique, which automatically optimizes irradiation angles, colors, and light intensity of illumination during inspection of substrates according to characteristics such as the shapes of electronic components and soldering on the substrates, thus reducing the human-hours required for setup by approximately 70%, says the company. Further, with the assistance of AI that has been taught the imaging know-how that the company has accumulated over more than 30 years in the field of automated inspection, as well as knowledge in solder inspection, the VT-S10 PCB inspection system is capable of automating inspections that have previously had to rely on human senses, significantly improving inspection accuracy.
The VT-S10 is part of the company’s manufacturing “innovative-Automation” concept, which embodies three key innovations (three “i’s”): “integrated” (control evolution), “intelligent” (development of intelligence by (information and communications technology), and “interactive” (new harmonization between people and machines).
If you enjoyed this article, you will like the following ones: don't miss them by subscribing to :
