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Official page behind FlexInspector?

MJP Corporation, the company in charge of FlexInspector sales, has completely renewed its website. Please visit https://www.maxjp.co.jp/.

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Developer's Aside
Specificity of visual inspection

When we talk with equipment manufacturers in particular, we often say that "the quality of automatic visual inspection is determined by the user's subjective judgment. Neither we, image makers nor equipment makers, can judge whether it is good or bad. In other words [...].

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Developer's Aside
Blind spots in lighting selection

What is the most important aspect of lighting selection? High contrast of defects? No, it is not. The image should be similar when the same object is imaged. Good products should have similar images. It is often the case that the contrast of defects is forced to be high [...].

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Developer's Aside
False Sampachi

When I visited one of our clients the other day, I heard the term "false sampachi". He said it is "a figure without any basis to put in for the time being" when he is worried. Come to think of it, "inspection specifications" often include things like "±0.03mm" ( [...]).

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Developer's Aside
The last sentence of the inspection specifications

Most inspection equipment is probably built based on inspection specifications submitted by the user. However, at the end of the inspection specifications is a sentence that reads, "No other defects. After all, what the inspection equipment must look for is "all [...]".

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Developer's Aside
What is important in quality inspection

Here is a part. Compared to other parts, the part is obviously bent. However, the amount of deformation is within the range of a good product according to the standard value. What would you think if you received the part? What is a "standard value" in the first place? Good [...].

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Developer's Aside
Omron and MVTec Form Alliance

The above article appeared on the front page of today's Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun. I think this is the first big topic in a while in this industry, which has been a bit stagnant. OMRON is one of the top two companies in the "image sensor" industry, along with Keyence. On the other hand, MVTec is a "custom [...]...

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Developer's Aside
Flexinspector's power in the know

Today, a person from an imaging-related company asked me if he could see what the FlexInspector was all about. I gave him an overview of the system (an inspection stage with automatic X-axis and manual Y-axis), which was just being adjusted before shipment. The image [...].

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Developer's Aside
Surprisingly large variation in objects

We receive and test a variety of samples, and we find that there is quite a large variation in the quality of the samples. For example, 0.1% distortion is 1 pixel distortion per 1000 pixels. 1 million pixel camera is 1000 x 1000 pixels, so 0.1% distortion is 1 pixel distortion [...].

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Developer's Aside
XC-HR90

This camera is very cost-effective, but it is a jajama. It is very difficult to use. Symptoms that are currently plaguing me. The first image taken after a certain period of time is extremely dark. The gain at fixed gain is too high, or the image has a strong roughness to it. [...].

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