5 Benefits You Need to Know about Automatic Inspection

If you’re producing precision components in a large volume, quality drives the entire manufacturing process. One of the ways to ensure the quality of products is automatic inspection. This technologically updated approach helps to overcome the problems associated with traditional inspection methods.

A glimpse into automatic inspection 

Automatic inspection refers to the automation of one or more of the steps involved in the inspection procedure. It can be generally divided into in-line, off-line, and near-line inspections. For example, when the inspection is done right after the products are manufactured, it can be called in-line inspection.

In this article, we will dig into the 3D automatic inspection. Automated inspection is a system that mainly consists of an automatic handling system, robot-mounted 3D scanner, and 3D measurement system. By largely replacing much of the tedious work of manual inspections, an automatic system can reduce errors to a great extent. It can also detect assembly problems in earlier stages, increase productivity and reduce costs.

Benefits of 3D automatic inspection

• Reduce costs of equipment

• Easy to operate

• Increase efficiency

• Generate more repeatable measurement results

• Improve upstream process

How can Scantech help?

The AutoScan-K lineup is an automatic inspection system from Scantech. It consists of a blue-laser 3D scanner, robotic arm, control system, and measurement system.

It mainly supports inspection of accuracy deviation, accuracy consistency, and automatic batch 3D scanning. Here is an example of how to compare 3D printed parts against the standard drawings with AutoScan-K.

How does it work? 

• Set the comparison template in advance and select inspection items, such as deviation of the section, center distance,
• Each piece is automatically inspected one by oneagainst the template, and an inspection report is then automatically generated.
• The report may include among others trend analysis, repeatability inspection, process monitoring, and geometric deformation inspection.