AOI Programming - Standard Industry Practice

Thanks for the reply. We don't typically add non-placed parts to the program as well. I agree that on certain occasions it may be useful, but for us, they are few and far between. I guess between the increase in the amount of new part templates, programming time, potential false failure rate, and inspection time we did not see enough value would be added with including them in the program.

I would just like to get a consensus from others in the industry on this topic to better understand whether our current approach to not include non-placements would be considered bizarre or unconventional.

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As we are CM, our part numbers are specific to our Customers. So the "images" of NotPop parts do not vary quite as much. I basically use a COLOR INSPECTOR and choose the soldermask inside the silkscreen, which would be blocked if a part were present. You do have to shrink down the 'search box' in order to ensure it doesn't look at the GREEN soldermask next to the location though.

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jdengler, Thanks for the feedback!

Based on your experience, it appears that our concerns about false failures and programming are definitely valid.

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