Our Inline Flex solution is our automatic solution for a wide array of applications. The system is design to handle foils on carriers, foils in boxes or rigid circuit boards. The inspection would inspect substrates for excess paste, missing paste, smearing, narrowing, mouse bites, holes, via covering, sprayers, bleeding of paste, contamination, print shifts, substrate shrinking, screen aging, etc, and it differentiates between random and serial defects.

The materials that are inspected are usually conductor materials (like silver or silver palladium), resistor paste, cover glass, adhesives, gold, etc., and it detects all defects that are relevant in modern fine line screen printing. The tendency goes to even finer structures. On prints with less than 50 µm line widths, inspection with the human eye is not possible or very unreliable. The STRATUS VISION AOI systems can inspect a 10” x 10” substrate in less than 10 seconds and find defects between 0.2µm and 30µm (depends on pixel size).