Cutting-Edge Technology

Visual Inspection

Vision systems utilize visible light, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation to create images of the products passing the inspection station. Feature location and pattern matching algorithms allow for a variety of powerful measurement and defect detection processes to be implemented to verify correctness of the product and provide data for process control. Camera and vision based technologies can be integrated into a larger fully-automated inspection solutions and combined with other inspection technologies to create specific inspection results.

Laser Inspection

Laser systems are a variant of the camera and vision systems technology in which structured light from lasers is viewed with a camera system to map the surface of a product under inspection. Small variations in surface profile can be sensed with these devices, allowing for very accurate distance/size measurement and precise characterization of shape-based defects.

Laser based technologies can be integrated into a larger, fully-automated inspection solutions and combined with the other inspection technologies to create specific inspection results.

Automated Ultrasonic Inspection

Ultrasound systems utilize sound waves to produce data on the internal structure of a product. In an ultrasonic system, a transducer induces a sound wave in the product, and then detects the echoes that return off of features within the product. Transducers can be employed in a linear array to produce a 3D image of the internal structure of the product.

New Gate’s ultrasound technologies include high-speed scanning and measurement systems for:

• Flat surface, utilizing New Gate proprietary wet-to-dry coupling system
• Curved/radial, utilizing New Gate proprietary wet-to-dry coupling system with contour following
• Immersed flat surface, utilizing wet coupling technology
• Immersed curved/radial, utilizing wet coupling technology with contour following

Ultrasonic based technologies can be integrated into larger, fully-automated inspection solutions and combined with the other inspection technologies to create specific inspection results.