Rochester Institute of Technology recently installed a MIRTEC MV3 OMNI automated, optical inspection machine in its Center for Electronics Manufacturing and Assembly (CEMA). The equipment enables ...

Jeff Johnson, mechatronics product manager, Beckhoff Automation Quality assurance bottlenecks are especially apparent when working with different components and in high-mix low-volume production. This ...

Building good automated models for inspection require more data to be collected, both good and bad. Vijay Thangamariappan, R&D engineer at Advantest, explains how to develop models for automating ...

Portable 3D optical inspection with 4Di InSpec transforms surface metrology, enhancing defect detection and quality assurance ...

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), also known as the “China Sky Eye”, is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Its reflector is a partial sphere of radius ...

When automated optical inspection (AOI) works, it is almost always preferable to human visual inspection. It can be faster, more accurate, more consistent, less expensive, and it never gets tired.

Provectron, a smart manufacturing partner focused on high-precision automation, today makes its official U.S. debut at CES in Las Vegas. Designed to support manufacturers looking to localize and ...

Veteran semiconductor equipment distributor Spirox has successfully entered the advanced packaging supply chain in the second ...

AXI is an effective technology for finding manufacturing defects in electronics assembly operations. Manufacturers of advanced electronics products know that simultaneously producing a ...

Nearly a year after a deal was initially announced, semiconductor equipment and services supplier KLA Corp. has completed its purchase of automated optical inspection equipment vendor Orbotech. “We ...

Optical 3D metrology enables fast, non-contact surface roughness measurement of defects and roughness for precise ...

Two new Omron automated optical inspection (AOI) systems have been released: the VT-Z600 and VT-S1040. The VT-Z600 is Omron’s fastest pre/post reflow AOI system. It features multi-direction and ...