Paul Joss
Marketing Manager, Industrial
Perceptron

Paul Joss is the Industrial Marketing Manager for Perceptron (NASDAQ: PRCP) in Plymouth, Michigan.  He has 12 years of experience working with non-contact inspection applications across various market sectors.   Paul started at Perceptron managing the installation of in-process dimensional gauging stations in automotive OEM plants.  His current role finds him working with manufacturers to identify strategic new applications where in-process and offline non-contact inspection can create competitive advantage.  Prior to Perceptron, Paul worked as an engineer doing computational fluid dynamics consulting and held critical roles within aviation and educational technology companies.  Paul holds a BSE in Aerospace Engineering and a MS in Business Administration.

PRESENTATION: Non-Contact Metrology: Eliminating the Cycle Time, Data Density & Price Trade-Off
30 years ago, the field of “machine vision” was born when engineers started connecting cameras to computers to see what problems they could solve.  Non-contact metrology – using sensors with cameras and light sources to perform dimensional measurements - has since become a common technique for quality and process control used by world class manufacturers.

Non-contact metrology has historically been deployed two different ways in manufacturing environments: in-process gauging or off-line inspection.  Due to cost constraints, most manufacturers have been forced to choose one technique or the other.  In-process gauging is a high speed/low data density approach where the dimensional characteristics of critical discrete features are measured on every part produced, commonly known as 100% inspection.  Off-line inspection today is often a low speed/high data density approach where a small sampling of production parts are measured very thoroughly using 3D scanning in a lab to assess shape & contours in addition to discrete features. 

Recent advances in non-contact metrology enable manufacturers to deploy high speed/high data density inspection where 3D scanning is utilized in production environments with short cycle times.  This presentation talks about the opportunities this breakthrough creates for manufacturers to alter their quality plans to leverage the strengths of each approach.