One scratch on a critical surface can become a recall. The right measurement strategy stops it at the source.
Advanced Optical Metrology Handbook is a practical, industry-focused guide to choosing, deploying, and trusting non-contact measurement in real production environments. Perhaps, you run a quality lab, manage a production line, or are specifying instruments for the first time, the information contain in this book takes you from measurement strategy to automation, data integrity, and enterprise-level metrology programs.
Contain in this book, you will learn how to:
- Build a measurement plan and set pass/fail criteria that account for measurement uncertainty
- Choose between interferometry (CSI and PSI), imaging and chromatic confocal, focus variation, and structured-light 3D scanning
- Measure difficult surfaces: steep slopes, shiny or dark parts, transparent layers, and additively manufactured textures
- Integrate instruments into robotic cells, inline conveyors, and PLC-connected production lines, up to lights-out operation
- Apply machine learning to defect classification and predictive surface quality
- Establish traceability, uncertainty budgets, and ISO 17025-ready data integrity
- Diagnose the ten most common optical metrology errors and resolve disagreements between instruments
- Connect metrology to digital twins, QIF, OPC UA, and the model-based enterprise
Industry-ready coverage: optics manufacturing, semiconductors and advanced packaging, aerospace, medical devices, additive manufacturing, automotive, and consumer electronics, with
five production-floor case studies. Built to be used, not just read. You also get: - a step-by-step measurement plan template,
- a 10-point annual instrument calibration checklist,
- a 16-week implementation plan,
- a technology selection matrix,
- a standards directory, a glossary, and
- a 5-year roadmap for your metrology team.
If you are a quality engineer, metrologist, process engineer, manufacturing manager, or R&D lead who needs to reduce scrap, pass audits, and produce measurement data you can defend, this handbook is your working reference.
Get your copy and put precision to work.