Improve your visual inspection program

From: Manufacturing Engineering | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

QUALITY SCAN

Although visual inspection is cost-effective, users of this technique experience certain common problems. For one thing, an inspector's ability to replicate his or her inspection results is often poor. At best, an inspector can only find about 85% of all the defects present in a manufacturing lot. Looking for such defects is similar to looking at the newspaper cartoon that asks you to find ten differences the artist has included in two similar pictures. Despite your best efforts, it's sometimes impossible to pick out those differences, even when you know they are there.

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