Automated Optical Inspection (AOI)

What this topic covers

High-speed image-based inspection for manufactured products and electronics.

Core testing ideas

AOI compares captured images or features with programmed expectations.

Coverage is strongest for visible characteristics that the optics can resolve.

Programming, fixtures and reference libraries need change control.

Measurement and method limits

Machine vision and AI can scale inspection but can also scale systematic false accepts or false rejects.

Evidence and traceability

Digital records need stable part identity, units, revisions and audit trails.

Using the result

Robots and automated motion systems require engineered safeguarding outside this site's procedural scope.