Quality Vision

Indispensable human element

Asked to describe the challenges attending the implementation of vision inspection systems at Nosco, Haraf explains the initial, psychological hurdle the company had to overcome.

"When we first went to vision technology, we innocently thought that the camera system was going to catch everything for us," he said. "What we quickly discovered, however, is that while there is tremendous power and validity in the technology's ability to identify defects, the really critical thing was having the skilled craft professionals make a determination whether the product would be acceptable to the customer."