One of the major technological tasks in Japan is saving labor. Although progress in labor saving in the inspection process has been considerably behind other processes, the necessity for it has recently become increasingly apparent. The high dependency on human ability which persists especially in sensory inspection urgently calls for instrumentation.
The question concerning the instrumentation of sensory inspection involves the selection or adjustment of physical sensors so that they may fulfill the required sensory characteristics or criteria concerning the specific items for inspection.
We refer also about automatic presentation of stimuli and processing of data in experiments.
The articles of this report are the following six.
1. Importance of industrial inspection. 2. Concept of automotic measurement and it's classification. 3. Case studies of instrumentation of inspection process. 4. Sensory measurement devices 5. Automatic presentation of stimuli and processing of data in experiments. 6. Interface of man and instrument.

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As the automatic wicket system is consisted of machine which have the fuculty of a ticket examiner, and passengers who are not necessarily be acquainted with wicket system, we can not better the system characteristics without the research on the relation between a man and the machine.
For this purpose, we tried the pilot simulation on field the man machine system of automatic wicket device, then field test on system availability was pursued and, at last, the system evaluation was investigated by means of questionaire method and its statiscal analysis.
Through these testsand investigation, we foud what are the important factors to promote the automation of wicket system.

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Iron and steel making plants continue to depend on the naked eye method for detecting of surface flaw during the course of inspection. However, when the naked eye inspection method is adopted for the inspection of surface flaw on steel strip, there might be many problems.
As the ways of approach to the analysis of these problems, the pursuit of inspector's eye movements useing an electro-oculograph-method and the study of visual efficiency are performed. From these analyses, most important points for the accurate on-line-naked-eye-inspection of surface flaw of steel strip are picked out.
On these back grounds and needs. wedeveloped automatic inspection system of surface flaw on steel strip, and achived the systems for electrolytic tin-plate lines and chromium coated sted steel-strip lines. Now, these systems are working enough and showing the achievement of a future full automatic inspection system.

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