The advent of the Industry 4.0 initiative has made it so that manufacturing environments are
becoming more and more dynamic, connected but also inherently more complex, with …

Personalized production is moving the progress of industrial automation forward, and
demanding new tools for improving the decision-making of the operators. This paper …

Existing augmented reality (AR) assembly mainly provides visual instructions for operators
from a first-person perspective, and it is hard to share individual working intents for co …

Advances of industry 4.0 are enabling augmented reality (AR) devices to be deployed
across the manufacturing sector to enhance worker engagement and performance. This …

Augmented reality (AR) has demonstrated its superior performance to benefit manual
assembly tasks by delivering intuitive guidance on the workbench directly, alleviating the …

The implementation of machine vision based quality inspection systems increases
productivity and reduces human error during visual inspection, thus improving product …

Defect identification of tiny-scaled electronics components with high-speed throughput
remains an issue in quality inspection technology. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) …

To increase the reliability of the printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing process,
automated optical inspection is often employed for soldering defect detection. However …

The Industry 4.0 paradigm is based on transparency and co-operation and, hence, on
monitoring and pervasive data collection. In highly standardized contexts, it is usually easy …

Overkill and leakage are common problems in automated optical inspection (AOI) systems
that have harmed firms to devote in intensive manual reinspection and seek the best CCD …