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Quality Inspection With Machine Vision

MVTec machine vision software is used in virtually every type of industrial quality inspection. In modern automated production environments, machine vision replaces manual inspection because it is faster, objective, reproducible, and does not suffer from fatigue or attention loss. This ensures consistent inspection quality, even at high throughput.

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Machine vision systems support a wide range of quality inspection tasks.

Detecting different types of defects on products.

Identifying cosmetic flaws such as scratches, dents, or surface irregularities.

Comparing a product’s shape or geometry to a reference, for example a CAD model.

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Typical Application Examples

Quality inspection with machine vision is used across many industries, for example to:

  • Inspect laser-welded joints in lithium-ion battery production.
  • Identify hotspots during solar cell production to ensure full functionality.
  • Check whether ice cream products (e.g., popsicles) meet specifications for shape and size.
  • Inspect car seat covers for surface defects.
  • Detect defects on electrode sheets in battery manufacturing.
  • Check beverage bottles for correct filling and defects on, for example, the bottle mouth.

TECHNOLOGIES IN OUR SOFTWARE

Quality Inspection Methods

Blob analysis
Morphology
Rule-based classification
Deflectometry
Photometric stereo
Deep-learning-based object detection

Deep-learning-based semantic segmentation
Deep-learning-based anomaly detection
Deep-learning-based edge extraction
Shape-based matching
3D shape matching
Surface 3D matching

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Our Success Stories

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Robotic manufacturing cell assembling satellite panels with optical solar reflectors using machine vision.
Seeing robots process large work area with high precision
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Machine vision for every taste
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