New UKIVA members reflect growing trends

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(2004), "New UKIVA members reflect growing trends", Sensor Review, Vol. 24 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2004.08724aab.003

New UKIVA members reflect growing trends

New UKIVA members reflect growing trends

Keywords: UKIVA, Machine vision

Two of the growing trends in industrial vision applications are reflected in products offered by the most recent additions to the membership of the UK industrial vision association (UKIVA). Machine Vision Products and Telesis Eagle are involved in the fields of real time statistical process control and product identification respectively.

Machine vision products produce the AutoInspector of vision system which are designed to identify assembly defects on printed circuit boards and provide in-line statistical process control. The system alerts line operators immediately whenever any process exceeds preset limits, minimising the production of faulty boards.

Telesis Eagle manufactures permanent product markers, from floating pin markers to laser markers. All markers are capable of producing both OCR and 2D-Datamatrixe vision readable codes. These can be used for the automated mark and read of high volume parts. Components are automatically marked on a production line and then tracked throughout the manufacturing process using 2D- Datamatrix readers. The readers output are linked to a central SCADA system for the control and management of quality control date.

UKIVA Director, Don Briggins. commented: “There is an increasing move across a variety of industries for data from vision system to be fed back into statistical process control systems, either in real time or soon after collection. We have members whose systems are used in this way in the electronics, automotive and glass tube manufacturing sectors”.

With regard to product traceability, he continued: “The ability to trace product throughout the production process is becoming an accepted and necessary part of quality control procedures, particularly in the automotive supply chain. Contracts for components are said to be currently specifying no more than twenty components per million to be defective, and soon that figure will drop to ten per million.”

For further information, please contact: Jennie Harris or Don Braggins, UK Industrial Vision Association, PO Box 25, Royston, Herts, SG8 3TQ. Tel: +44(0)1763 261419; Fax: +44(0)1763 261961; E-mail: jennie@ukiva.org; Web site: www.ukiva.org