The head of the German producer of photonics packaging and integration technology shares his insights with EPIC's photonics technologies program manager.
The head of the German producer of photonics packaging and integration technology shares his insights with EPIC's photonics technologies program manager.
The use of AI for visual inspection is currently making great strides in sectors like automotive, metals and machinery manufacturing. However, those investing in the technology not only expect a system that will be superior to manual inspection, but an error rate close to zero in defect detection. Let us look at the importance of image quality and why the variability in the production environment is the single greatest challenge that AI engineers must face.
Adhesive bonding is an established joining technique with many applications in for example aerospace, lightweight construction, and the automotive industry. It places particularly high demands on materials, processes, and quality assurance, requiring extensive development and qualification procedures. Many process samples generated for testing are still evaluated manually by experts. The AdheScan provides a quantifiable, simplified and more accurate evaluation of adhesive failure surfaces.
Increasing the material ablation rate in micromachining of precise geometries by ultrashort-pulsed laser treatment with high average power causes a decrease of achievable surface quality due to heat accumulation. To overcome this drawback, combined laser processes offer a significant increase of the overall productivity by the implementation of laser cleaning and polishing processes that require negligible additional processing time, but allow material removal to be performed with maximum process efficiency.