Smart Quality Control Station for Non-Contact Measurement of Cylindrical Parts Based on a Confocal Chromatic Sensor

In modern digital factories, in-line quality control on 100% of production has become a key strategy to keep production processes and products under control. The real time and early identification of deviations and trends, performed at the single process level, prevents generation of defects and their propagation to down-stream processes, enabling the entire manufacturing system to perform early detection of process deviations and self-adaptation to different conditions. This is done to approach the zero-defect target aimed for by the manufacturing sector.