Fellows,
We are considering getting an AOI machine to inspect boards that our vendors are giving us (we outsource the assembly of PCBAs). We have low volumes of boards, but every time a defect does slip by our human inspectors, it causes a lot of problems down the line. Most of our defects come from solder defects (bridges and bad solder joints). We evaluated a MIRTEC MV-3 and have mixed feelings about it; it's quite easy to program, but the defects don't always show up that clearly with