As has been the case, many requirements are made to the inspection system. Even more diversified requirements are seen because of its possible versatile applications. There are some industries in which, a short while back, it was thought to be hard to apply automatic inspection, but now because of more increased competition, some kind of automatic inspection would be a most effective means to be apart from the other competitors. The competition is not only among domestic but world-wide and is by all means intensifying.
As to the overall performance, there are two critical points in focus. The first is how to most effectively utilize the flaw data for the improvement of product quality and production yield. The inspection system was once regarded as a simple sensor, but the times have changed now and is required to provide an opportunity to becoming more competitive position in the market. The collected data is thought to be even more valuable if it were shared among operators via network. It would be further processed. like SQC analysis, to bring in more benefit.
The second is, needless to say, the sensitivity itself. Market is going to require defects detected which were used to be not required before. The more sensitive means, more data is gathered.
It is crucial to make the system more efficient in handling vast flaw data along with improved sensitivity. On top, how to most effectively share that flaw data internally in order to achieve the better result.
Here I describe briefly about how we can achieve the afore-mentioned balanced performance.
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