Improved Profitability Through Labor Saving and Reliability

How to save labor while maintaining quality levels?

There are two approaches to expand production profit: increasing production volume and reducing production costs. The approach of increasing production volume to improve profitability was described in "Improved profitability by increased production takt/equipment takt." This page focuses on the approach of reducing production costs.

Modern manufacturing has to offer high quality levels and inspection has become indispensable in every process. This requires expensive inspection equipment, and 100% inspection has become necessary to prevent the outflow of defective workpieces. As a result, labor costs and equipment investments for inspections are increasing.

For these reasons, it is extremely difficult to achieve both high quality and low cost. Maintaining quality inevitably requires certain costs. Inspection using an image processing system can be a solution for the issue of achieving both high quality and low cost.

100% inspection through the use of an image processing system

Inspections have become a heavy burden on the production sites that have to provide high quality. An increasing number of companies have been introducing image processing systems as a remedy for this problem. Using an image processing system to conduct inspections that are done visually will significantly reduce labor costs. Image processing allows inline inspection, which is effective for yield rate improvement and enables 100% inspection.

Have you ever experienced problems like these?

If you have experienced any of the following, you can expect to see profitability improvements by introducing an image processing system.

A high-speed, high-pixel image processing system will solve your problems.

21 megapixel camera

Capabilities of a 21 megapixel camera
A large capacity image of 21 million effective pixels (5104 x 4092 pixels) can be transmitted quickly at 16x speed, just 110 ms. This allows detection of minute defects or details on large targets, which were impossible with conventional cameras.

0.31 megapixel

The entire image looks blurred and nothing can be identified

5 megapixels

The profiles of chips appear blurred and accurate detection is difficult.

21 megapixels

Everything is clear and detailed, so accurate judgment is possible.

It was difficult to use common 0.31 or 2 megapixel cameras to conduct inspection that satisfies requirements for high accuracy. Their transmission speed and processing speed were limited and 100% inspection was sometimes impossible on high-speed lines.

To solve these problems, KEYENCE added an ultra high-pixel camera delivering 21 megapixels (5104 x 4092) to the lineup. 16x high-speed transfer in 109.9 ms allows detection of minute defects even during inline inspection. Large targets or multiple targets can be captured as one image, which helps improve the efficiency of inspections.

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