AI Visual Inspection for Electronics and PCB Manufacturing
Electronics defects are microscopic, high-volume, and costly. A single solder bridge on a PCB can cause field failures that cost 10x the part value to detect and repair downstream. Manual optical inspection slows lines and introduces subjectivity.
DeepVision delivers consistent, high-speed automated optical inspection (AOI) that adapts to new board designs without re-programming.
Electronics Inspection Applications
- PCB solder inspection — bridges, insufficient solder, cold joints, lifted leads
- Component presence — missing, wrong-value, rotated, tombstoned components
- Surface mount inspection — pad alignment, flux residue, component co-planarity
- Connector inspection — bent pins, missing contacts, contamination
- Display and screen inspection — dead pixels, scratches, bonding defects
- Cable assembly — wire routing, connector seating, crimp quality
Advantages Over Rule-Based AOI
Traditional rule-based AOI requires days of programming for each new PCB revision. DeepVision learns from images instead, so a new board revision is added by training on its images rather than writing new rules. On a live flat-panel board line, a 10-camera DeepVision setup covers 100% of each board with at least 98% defect detection.