Quality Control of Ceramic Tiles Using Image Processing

Ceramic tile production is a very complex process. The production process is an assembly of chemical, mechanical, thermo-dynamical and other processes which must be finely tuned for good and successful production.In the production chain there are numerous ways for things to go wrong. Every failure directly reflects on the final ceramic tile. The final production phase is visual inspection, classification and packing of ceramic tiles. In most cases the last phase is based on human perception capability. Human resources as controllers in this phase are very unreliable. During hard working conditions in plant and human visual perception limitations, a man as a controller chain could be a source of failures and decrease production yield and product quality which increases total production costs. To avoid or minimize human related failure causes as much as possible, This book presents one of the ways how to introduce automatics as the main worker for this stage in the ceramic tile production