Xing-Fei He is senior product manager at DALSA Corp.

Flawless brake operation is so essential to the safety of a vehicle that all brake systems have passed some type of safety testing before a driver ever gets behind the wheel. But how much better would you, as a driver, feel knowing that the raw brake discs of your motorcycle or minivan were inspected for any flaws even before brake assembly began? And from a manufacturing perspective, what if such an inspection yielded better quality while boosting profitability?

A custom-designed machine vision inspection system from Ibea GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, uses cameras from DALSA to provide these benefits and more for automotive suppliers, manufacturers, and customers alike.

Putting the brakes on faulty parts

Manufacturers tend to rely on manual inspections to detect nonconformities on raw brake discs. Frequent shift changes and the subjective nature of these inspections lead to lower reliability and, subsequently, to increased manufacturing costs resulting from returns.

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