Visual inspection of products: a comparison of the methods used to evaluate surface anomalies

Universitéde Savoie, Laboratoire SYMME, Annecy, France

^⋆ Correspondence: nathalie.baudet@univ-savoie.fr
^⋆⋆ Correspondence: maurice.pillet@univ-savoie.fr
^⋆⋆⋆ Correspondence: jean-luc.maire@univ-savoie.fr

Received: 28 February 2011
Accepted: 3 March 2011

Abstract

This paper presents and compares different approaches currently used to assess surface anomalies identified on a product. The common point between these methods is that they are based on a document presented in the form of a table, which is to help the inspector to assess the anomaly detected in a repeatable and reproducible way. We will present three types of table: criteria/level table, tree-like presentation table and an indexed table. As each of these tables presents certain limits when applied to the inspection of a product surface, we will describe the table proposed in order to help the inspector determine the intensity to attribute to the identified anomaly.