2010 Seminar Questionnaire

We conducted a brief survey at the International Imaging Seminar held concurrently with the International Technical Exhibition on Image Technology and Equipment in December.
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Here are the results. The numbers in parentheses () are actual numbers.
Breakdown of participants
Manufacturing 77%(55)
Software industry 11%(8)
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Issues with automatic visual inspection in operation
No problem 5%(2)
Difficult to operate 68%(26)
High cost of implementation 39%(15)
Defective products are still leaking 8%(3)
Considering that the participants include manufacturers, the number of "no problem" responses seems to be too small.
It can also be seen that there are major problems "after the introduction".
The reality may be that "we are struggling to operate the system even though we spent a lot of money to introduce it.
Equipment used
Image sensors 46%(33)
Image processing equipment 46%(33)
Custom-made 22%(16%)
It seems that the "top two" in image sensors and image processing equipment have a large market share.
However, when considered in conjunction with the above issues...
Looking only at newspapers and advertisements, the truth about automatic visual inspection is not clear.
Although the results of this survey are not large in number, they are almost in line with the information I obtain on a daily basis.
There is no doubt that the "top two" technologies have reached a very high level of perfection in terms of "detecting defects by making full use of image processing.
However, considering that we are lost in this methodology... what is the answer beyond that?