By August 07, 2009 vision-OS, Bochum, has taken over the AOI segment (Automatical optical Inspection) from Siemens Electronics Assembly Systems, München. With this 3D AOI-Systems, which are well known for more than 20 years under the brand name Optrix for reliable and secure optical inspection, the company now offers professional service, software development and highly productive optical 3D inspection systems. In future the 3D inspection systems will again be distributed under the brand name Optrix.

CEO of vision-OS is Andreas Kuehne, who was, as technical director of opto-control and as Product and Sales Manager at Siplace, significantly involved in the development of the systems. Andreas Kuehne feels confident in the success of the outstanding AOI-Systems: "Since August, we were very successful in serving the existing Siplace OS and Optrix customers and now we step forward in offering the Optrix 3D AOI to the whole market. I am very confident, that we will continue the success story of the Optrix 3D-Inspectionsystems."

The real 3D inspection system of vision-OS can be used in different positions inside the SMT-line, starting with the solder paste inspection with real volume measurement, component inspection before the reflow oven and final inspection after the reflow process. Because of its real and highly precise 3D measurement also special applications or customized solutions are possible. Several tools with connection to the pick and place systems are available and allow a very fast exact localising of the error and its root cause and make the systems to an indispensable process tool.