Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State Drive

The enterprise or data center does not use the M2 SATA because of the cooling problem. Therefore, SSDs employ metal cases similar to the traditional 2.5” or 3.5” hard disk. The metal case is made of aluminum, which must be ground after the metal plate forming process. Conventionally, quality control...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chun-Jen Chen, Cheng-Feng Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
Series:Engineering Proceedings
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/92/1/96
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1850167525250170880
author Chun-Jen Chen
Cheng-Feng Tsai
author_facet Chun-Jen Chen
Cheng-Feng Tsai
author_sort Chun-Jen Chen
collection DOAJ
description The enterprise or data center does not use the M2 SATA because of the cooling problem. Therefore, SSDs employ metal cases similar to the traditional 2.5” or 3.5” hard disk. The metal case is made of aluminum, which must be ground after the metal plate forming process. Conventionally, quality control is conducted to check the ground quality of aluminum cases manually. This method is not accurate as the data are difficult to digitize. To improve the quality control, speed, and efficiency. We established a digital imaging-based inspection system for the aluminum case grinding quality control. The inspection system consists of a digital industrial camera, a closed-circuit TV lens, a light-emitting diode (LED) light source, and a personal computer. If the loading and unloading time is ignored, the test time is less than five seconds for one case. When the tested case is uploaded to the inspection system, the camera captures and sends images to the computer. The image was processed to evaluate the quality and record the tested results. Then, the tested case is classified by a robot or an operator.
format Article
id doaj-art-2fec3559f8de4dcb97ca80b860914cc0
institution OA Journals
issn 2673-4591
language English
publishDate 2025-06-01
publisher MDPI AG
record_format Article
series Engineering Proceedings
spelling doaj-art-2fec3559f8de4dcb97ca80b860914cc02025-08-20T02:21:11ZengMDPI AGEngineering Proceedings2673-45912025-06-019219610.3390/engproc2025092096Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State DriveChun-Jen Chen0Cheng-Feng Tsai1Department of Automation Engineering and Smart Machinery, Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632301, TaiwanDepartment of Automation Engineering and Smart Machinery, Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632301, TaiwanThe enterprise or data center does not use the M2 SATA because of the cooling problem. Therefore, SSDs employ metal cases similar to the traditional 2.5” or 3.5” hard disk. The metal case is made of aluminum, which must be ground after the metal plate forming process. Conventionally, quality control is conducted to check the ground quality of aluminum cases manually. This method is not accurate as the data are difficult to digitize. To improve the quality control, speed, and efficiency. We established a digital imaging-based inspection system for the aluminum case grinding quality control. The inspection system consists of a digital industrial camera, a closed-circuit TV lens, a light-emitting diode (LED) light source, and a personal computer. If the loading and unloading time is ignored, the test time is less than five seconds for one case. When the tested case is uploaded to the inspection system, the camera captures and sends images to the computer. The image was processed to evaluate the quality and record the tested results. Then, the tested case is classified by a robot or an operator.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/92/1/96aluminum case grindingmachine visiondigitalized quality control
spellingShingle Chun-Jen Chen
Cheng-Feng Tsai
Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State Drive
Engineering Proceedings
aluminum case grinding
machine vision
digitalized quality control
title Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State Drive
title_full Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State Drive
title_fullStr Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State Drive
title_full_unstemmed Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State Drive
title_short Digital Imaging Inspection System for Aluminum Case Grinding Quality Control of Solid-State Drive
title_sort digital imaging inspection system for aluminum case grinding quality control of solid state drive
topic aluminum case grinding
machine vision
digitalized quality control
url https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/92/1/96
work_keys_str_mv AT chunjenchen digitalimaginginspectionsystemforaluminumcasegrindingqualitycontrolofsolidstatedrive
AT chengfengtsai digitalimaginginspectionsystemforaluminumcasegrindingqualitycontrolofsolidstatedrive