Ensuring Print Quality on Radio Faceplates

Ensuring Print Quality on Radio Faceplates

Customer Problem:

A manufacturer of plastic radio faceplates and buttons needed to reduce inspection costs. The company required some type of inspection in order to meet it's customer's minimum rates for defects in laser-marked characters and icons. After deciding that manual inspection was inconsistent and expensive, the manufacturer tried installing a vision system to do the job.

However, the system was unable to tolerate normal variations in ambient lighting, and so gave incorrect results. The customer then turned to Cognex.

Cognex Solution:

Running three shifts a day, a Cognex machine vision system reduced inspection costs enough to pay for itself in just a few months. The system easily tolerates real-world variations in ambient lighting, providing reliable inspection that decreases defect rates beyond the point necessary to satisfy the company's customers. The vision system was so easy to program that the company's engineers configured and installed it themselves.

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Related Applications: 

Cognex has systems installed for other automotive interior applications including: 

• Guiding robotic assembly of instrument panel illumination systems 
• Calibrating readouts of instruments 
• Verifying correct assembly of instruments 
• Testing correct function of LEDs and lamps 
• Inspecting logo quality 
• Verifying correct installation of seat adjustment levers