INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

In automotive manufacturing, the quality of screwdriving operations has a direct impact on product safety, service life, and compliance. A single defective bolted joint can result in significant costs and product recalls. Consequently, screwdriving technology has undergone substantial development in recent years: from traditional mechanical torque wrenches to intelligent, data-driven systems. Screwdriving Technology 4.0 describes this transformation, where precision is comple

Visual quality inspection is no longer purely a human task. Production lines are getting faster, quality expectations are becom ing stricter, and defects are becoming smaller and harder to detect. In this environment, the key question is no longer whether machine vision should be used, but whether a rule-based image processing approach, AI-based evaluation, or a hybrid of the two is the right choice for a given use case. This article provides practical decision criteria, espe