Electro-Optical sensors in industrial applications

Quality Assurance plays a key role in modern flexible manufacturing systems. This is the reason why an increasing demand for highly adapted automated measuring and inspection systems is noticeable that have to assure the quality performance of the products leaving the production lines. Once proven to be reliable and economic, they will be introduced into production as systems for in-line quality control. In the following different electro-optical systems will be described that deal with topics as optical geometrical measurements or the automated visual inspection as they are applied for industrial use.