AOI Systems Expanded with Highly Flexible 9 Camera Configurations

Whether desktop or in-line, a system to exactly meet individual product requirements can be “built” on-line with Mek’s AOI Configurator at the new www.mek-europe website.

Newer generations of components and PCB designs with leads invisible by orthogonal camera’s, can now be inspected by side cameras with 45-degree angled simultaneous views at 10u resolution. The same cameras are used for defect verification/classification and repair using the simultaneous 9-view automatic microscope function. Typically, fewer operator mistakes will occur if defect images are presented in multi-angle views. The 45 degree views allow operators to see defects in a natural 3D projection.

Increasingly popular 45 degree space-saving circuitry designs can now be inspected easily by the 8-side camera configuration with straight views onto each specific component or lead.

Henk Biemans, Mek Managing Director further explained, “Everyone’s goal is to minimize human mistakes. Our sensors also provide high quality images that aid operators in the defects classification process, and those same images are stored in a database. Imagine having fingertip access to all products with 8x views of every component.”