Department of Mechanical Engineering

Subject - Automation Engineering

Subject Code -7ME04

Semester – Seventh

Unit No.- 06
 Unit No.- 06

Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)

Lecture No. – 04

Prepared By – Prof .N. W. Suroshe

 Automated inspection and testing

AUTOMATED INSPECTION

• An alternative to manual inspection is automated inspection.

Automation of the inspec­tion procedure will almost always
reduce inspection time per piece.

• and automated machines do not experience the fatigue and

mental errors suffered by human inspectors.
• Economic justification of an automated inspection system
depends on whether the sav­ings in labor cost

• And improvement in accuracy will more than offset the

investment and/or development costs of the system.

• Automated inspection can be defined as the automation of

one or more of the steps involved in the inspection
procedure.
 Feed Back control system

Action steps resulting from automated inspection: (a) feedback process control and
(b) sortalion of parts into two or more quality levels
 Method of inspection
(Off-Line and On-Line Inspection)
Three inspection
alternatives are

(a) Off Line

inspection ,

(b) on-line/in-
process inspection,

(e) on-line/post
process inspection
 Method of inspection
(Off-Line and On-Line Inspection)
• Off - Line Inspection.

• Off-line inspection is performed away from manufacturing

process, and there is generally a lime delay between processing
and inspection.

• Off-line inspection is often accomplished using statistical

sampling methods. Manual inspection is common.
 Off-Line and On-Line Inspection

• On-Line Inspection –

• The alternative to off-line- inspection is on-line inspection

performed when the parts are made, either as an integral step in
the processing or assembly operation, or immediately
afterword
 Two Basic Types of
Inspection Techniques

1. Contact inspection
– Makes contact with object being inspected

2. Noncontact inspection
– Does not make contact with object being inspected
 Contact Inspection Techniques

Uses a mechanical probe that makes contact with the object being
measured or gauged.

• Principal techniques:

– Conventional measuring and gaging instruments, manual

and automated.

– Coordinate measuring machines.

– Stylus type surface texture measuring machines.

 Noncontact Inspection Techniques

Uses a sensor or probe located a certain distance

away from object being measured or gauged

• Two categories:

– Optical – uses light to accomplish the inspection

– Nonoptical - uses energy form other than light

 Advantages of noncontact inspection:

– Avoids possible damage to surface of object

– Inherently faster than contact inspection

– Can often be accomplished in production without

additional part handling

– Increased opportunity for 100% inspection

 Questions

• Explain the Method of Automated inspection

• Explain Feed back control system
• Explain Contact and noncontact inspection system