ZEISS ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS

Quality Assurance for Camera Module

Name: Quality assurance for camera module
Brand: ZEISS

Close-up image of a ZEISS miniature camera module

Quality at every stage of production

ZEISS solutions for camera modules

In today’s world of ever-developing technological advancements, camera technology has firmly established itself at the heart of the modern electronics industry. Its impact covers everything from automotive autonomous navigation to security monitoring devices. And it is of course crucial to the virtual meeting systems and smartphone cameras that keep us more connected than ever.

Step 1: Tool manufacturing

Challenges

Ensure compliance with extremely tight tolerances on lens and lens barrel mold
Enable high stability and repeatability of injection molding process and high-precision glass molding process
Non-contact measurement of nanoscale surface roughness, plus contour and topography analysis

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Reliable and reproducible results with maximum accuracy with the coordinate measuring machines ZEISS PRISMO

ZEISS CMMs
Step 2: Lens barrel and module

Challenges

Measurement of diameter, roundness, and coaxiality for proper lens mounting
Defect detection of flashes, sink marks, or black spots on lens barrels caused by incorrect molding parameters
Understand the matching accuracy, check for lens tilt, identify de-center deviation
Lens spacing and thickness measurement
In-situ experiment to study deformation after temperature variation

Your benefits with ZEISS

Multi-sensor measuring machines enable to optimally measure each characteristic in compliance by ZEISS O-INSPECT
Industrial quality assurance and failure analysis with scanning electron microscope ZEISS EVO

ZEISS Industrial Microscopy Solutions
ZEISS Microscopy Software
Step 3: Carrier

Challenges

Dimension Measurement: Ensure accurate measurements for proper mounting and fastening of the various components
Focus on Micro Steps: Measure the glue slot line profile to guarantee the image quality of the lens module

Your benefits with ZEISS

Multi-sensor measuring machines enable to optimally measure each characteristic in compliance by ZEISS O-INSPECT

ZEISS Vision Measuring Machine
Step 4: IR Cut Filter / Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor

Challenges

Incoming quality control of final assembly components to avoid rework of large batches
Identify root cause of product failure through morphology characterization and elemental analysis
Inspect surface topography characteristics and analyze elements to understand component behavior

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Industrial quality assurance and failure analysis with scanning electron microscope ZEISS EVO

ZEISS Industrial Microscopy Solutions
ZEISS Microscopy Software
Step 5: Final assembly

Challenges

Failure analysis in the event of insufficient image quality
Assembly status inspection with extreme resolution
Measurement of assembled parts and inspection of individual component state

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3D X-Ray imaging at submicron resolution with ZEISS Versa X-Ray Microscopes

ZEISS Industrial Microscopy Solutions
ZEISS Microscopy Software