Recording systems for process analysis and quality assurance

Do you know the scenario? Your quality control system reports a defective part. Something must have happened, but what and at what point in the process? Wouldn't it be good to have an overview of everything that happened just before the defect occurred?

This is precisely where systems for monitoring production processes come into play, which record image and video sequences at high speed over long periods of time and make them available for subsequent slow-motion analysis as a basis for diagnosis and troubleshooting in production.

Food industry

process control in the food industy, example cookies production

The production of foodstuffs is a sequence of complex processes that requires targeted control of the individual steps due to continuously increasing production speeds and growing demands on quality and hygiene.

Based on consistent process monitoring, individual processes can be analysed and optimised, a consistent quality of the products can be ensured, and the efficiency of the production process can be increased. Recording systems are often used here to record longer procedures or rapidly successive individual events in the production process. The images are stored in real time and can subsequently be analysed in detail.

Electronics industry

In semiconductor production or in the chemical industry, many processes take place in closed reactors that are difficult to access. Here, too, permanently increasing production speeds and quality requirements demand continuous optimisation of processes and sequences. Real-time monitoring of the processes taking place in combustion chambers, for example, can only be carried out remotely. To check these processes, an endoscope is often inserted into the reactor with a high-resolution camera head at the end of which (outside the reactor) is the camera control unit, which archives the images and simultaneously sends them directly to a computer for further processing.

process monitoring in semiconductor industry, example silicium wafer

Pharmaceutical industry

For the production of pharmaceutical products, the highest standards of quality and safety apply. In addition, numerous legal regulations make a flawless production process indispensable. By using recording systems, processes can be consistently monitored, analysed, and optimised. This ensures high quality and increases the efficiency of the production process.

Packaging industry

The packaging industry also has a wide variety of constantly growing requirements regarding process efficiency. Fast and reliable process chains are essential for success. The use of recording systems enables targeted control and is the basis for improving the entire process chain.

Recording systems for high speed process monitoring

In general, wherever motion sequences need to be isolated to detect error sources of during a process, recording systems help the monitoring of processes and enable archiving and subsequent detailed process analysis and process optimisation by means of slow-motion recordings.

The flexible recording systems of the pvRecord family simultaneously enable automated image processing that analyses the video data while the data is archived for later analysis.

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