Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 28 05:31:04 EST 2006 | egrice
Lou, You should look at the ERSA/Modus AOI System! The Modus AOI uses a high resolution industrial scanner rather than a camera mounted to a gantry. It's way faster (12 seconds for whole board ) and can do everything that a camera can do and more
Electronics Forum | Fri Jan 19 20:49:41 EST 2007 | Greg Ross
If you are using these "keycards" as a visual inspection aid for performing First Article Inspection or in Process inspection of SMT populated PCBs then you should consider an automated system which is optical scanner based. They are inexpensive comp
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 27 18:14:12 EDT 2019 | spoiltforchoice
You don't want an AOI machine you want an FAI (First Article Inspection) like one of these http://www.aoisystems.com/Scanner-Based-FA-Inspector.html (note some of the products here call themselves AOI, arguably they are not.) Or https://www.quins.de/
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 23 21:33:22 EST 2021 | stephendo
We haven't laser engraved PCBs but we have had 2D barcodes silk screened on. When I saw them I thought that they would not work because the white squares were blobs but they did work. With the Datamatrix format only the centre of each little square
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 30 16:31:34 EDT 2004 | aburgos
Mike: When you stated that you are looking for a different AOI to replace GSI Lumonics because of 0201 solder paste inspection. Does that mean that you have a 1X scanner and it is not giving you reliable results? Have you tried the 2X scanner from G
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 11 19:07:16 EST 2005 | primus
We are also looking for AOI machines, pre- and post-reflow. We already tried one machine from the UK (I don't remember the name, I perfer to forget we ever had it) and they told is it would do everything we wanted. Maybe so, but not well enough. It s
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 24 07:28:36 EDT 2018 | tech1
It will in a limited fashion. It is a scanner and when using it for solder or lead inspection you will probably get many false calls, Operators tend to fall asleep clicking "accept" all the time. Don't get me wrong, we run one of these systems and it
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 14 14:39:47 EDT 2019 | spoiltforchoice
Interesting, the scanner based FAI systems seen more than capable of reading text from what I've seen. I saw a demo of an ALeader AOI the other day @ WNIE and that certainly identifed test on resistors, but thinking back I don't know if it was readin
Electronics Forum | Tue May 17 16:10:35 EDT 2011 | bandjwet
Our shop builds lowere qty (2-40 pcs) high complexity electronics. When we get in to bd counts greater than 10 pcs with a high number of placements (3-4K) missings and polarity are issues that bite us. We have looked at different simpler scanner type
Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 16 05:24:40 EDT 1999 | Chris May
| I'm looking into vision inspection equipment to automatically inspect SMD placement and solder joint quality. Does anyone have any recommendations or know of any commonly used equipment? Do other manufacturers use vision systems at their inspecti
