ZEISS modular fixture with clamps and probes for coordinate measuring machine inspection.
Zeiss electronics industry solutions​

Quality Assurance
for Cold Plate​

Cold plates are core thermal components for AI servers, so rigorous quality inspection is critical to guarantee stable high-power computing. Defects like internal channel burrs, weld leaks, uneven surface flatness or coating flaws can reduce heat dissipation efficiency, trigger local overheating and even cause AI chip shutdown during heavy workloads.​

Inspection covers dimensional accuracy, surface roughness, thermal resistance verification. Consistent quality screening prevents liquid coolant leakage that may damage expensive computing hardware. Reliable cold plate quality directly lifts AI cluster uptime, cuts maintenance costs and ensures sustained performance for large-model training and inference tasks.​

Cold plate quality solutions​

ZEISS modular fixture with highlighted blue components for coordinate measuring machine inspection.

Incoming quality control​

Dimension & flatness measurement​

The flatness of cold plates must be tightly controlled to ensure full intimate contact with heat sources such as CPUs and GPUs, enabling efficient thermal conduction.

ZEISS Inspect X-ray analysis showing a volume defect with nominal, actual and deviation values.

In-process quality control​

Automatic defects inspection for mass production​

Automatic defects inspection for mass production cold plate enables fast, full-field 3D detection and quantitative evaluation of surface and internal defects on cold plates in high-volume manufacturing.​

ZEISS industrial CT scan showing an internal view of a manufactured component.

Outgoing quality control​

Microchannel liquid cooling plate defect inspection​

Microchannel liquid cooling plate defect inspection delivers fast automatic flaw detection for high-volume cold plate manufacturing.

ZEISS industrial CT scan revealing internal gears, springs and components in a mechanical assembly.

Failure analysis​

Surface inspection for failure analysis​

​Nondestructive defect inspection for failure analysis enables non-contact detection and characterization of hidden defects to support root-cause analysis of component failures.

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