An integrated virtual instrumentation system using statistical process control and image processing

The product life cycle of Hi-Tech industry become shorter and shorter in recent years. Production line must work as fast as it can when products design finish. Otherwise, industry is very difficult to survive in the Hi-Tech industry with keen competition. As the result, it is difficult to satisfy production rate and defective rate at the same time. Production line in traditional factory is that quality controller needs to use vision sense to confirm manufacture procedure and controls the situation of production line such as they should adjust production parameter at any time, control procedure to reduce defective rate, increasing effective output products, reduce production cost, and increase profitability. In our research, we want to reduce burdens for quality controller. We use image processing intend of using vision sense by quality controller before. Our research develops a virtual instrumentation system to reach our goal.