SQIN

A Digital Product Quality Inspector

Manufacturers aim to deliver the highest quality at the lowest cost during the production or assembly process. At the same time regulations need to be met and worker safety must be guaranteed at all times.

A wide range of materials and products must be closely monitored for potential hazards, defects, and quality issues. Physical inspection of all this requires a vast amount of deep knowledge due to product variables and ever-changing circumstances on factory floors. If manufacturers fail to detect issues, they are unable to take immediate remedial action resulting in loss of margin, or worse. 

Digital inspectors can automatically assess the status and quality of a visible defect on any surface. Automatically recognize and classify deviations from plans and regulations, defects, and changes to trigger an immediate action.

INSPECH

A Digital Road Surface Inspector

Case MapXact

A Digital Radar Image Inspector

Although it may sound exotic, radar image inspection is a form of surface inspection. The surface is simply a two dimensional radar image.

For decades ground radar has been the great promise for soil mapping, to prevent excavation damage to cables and pipes. Hitting an underground gas pipe or high voltage cable can cause millions in damages and even serious injuries to field workers.

Interpreting the radar images, however, is such a painstaking job that VolkerWessels subsidiary MapXact almost stopped using ground radar altogether, until they started working with a digital inspector.

Digital inspectors can automatically assess the radar images to recognize the detailed fingerprints of different underground structures and objects. With a bit of spatial post processing a digital inspector can automatically recognize and classify deviations from plans and regulations to provide an accurate underground infrastructure map.