Network-based production quality control

Yongjin Kwon; Tzu-Liang B. Tseng; Richard Chiou

doi:10.1117/12.732503

10 October 2007 Network-based production quality control

Yongjin Kwon, Tzu-Liang B. Tseng, Richard Chiou

Proceedings Volume 6762, Two- and Three-Dimensional Methods for Inspection and Metrology V; 67620G (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.732503
Event: Optics East, 2007, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

This study investigates the feasibility of remote quality control using a host of advanced automation equipment with Internet accessibility. Recent emphasis on product quality and reduction of waste stems from the dynamic, globalized and customer-driven market, which brings opportunities and threats to companies, depending on the response speed and production strategies. The current trends in industry also include a wide spread of distributed manufacturing systems, where design, production, and management facilities are geographically dispersed. This situation mandates not only the accessibility to remotely located production equipment for monitoring and control, but efficient means of responding to changing environment to counter process variations and diverse customer demands. To compete under such an environment, companies are striving to achieve 100%, sensor-based, automated inspection for zero-defect manufacturing. In this study, the Internet-based quality control scheme is referred to as "E-Quality for Manufacturing" or "EQM" for short. By its definition, EQM refers to a holistic approach to design and to embed efficient quality control functions in the context of network integrated manufacturing systems. Such system let designers located far away from the production facility to monitor, control and adjust the quality inspection processes as production design evolves.

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Yongjin Kwon, Tzu-Liang B. Tseng, and Richard Chiou "Network-based production quality control", Proc. SPIE 6762, Two- and Three-Dimensional Methods for Inspection and Metrology V, 67620G (10 October 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.732503

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