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1. Enhancing the Efficiency of Material
Testing with Opto-Digital Microscopy

2. Executive Summary
• The Geneva-based SGS Group is a world leader in testing and
certification of a wide variety of parts and products of different
shapes and sizes.

3. Executive Summary
• The Geneva-based SGS Group is a world leader in testing and
certification of a wide variety of parts and products of different
shapes and sizes.
• Specializing in the automotive, aerospace and medical
technology sectors, their subsidiary, SGS Institut Fresenius
GmbH in Dortmund employs a range of methods for detailed
inspection of materials and parts.

4. Executive Summary
• The Geneva-based SGS Group is a world leader in testing and
certification of a wide variety of parts and products of different
shapes and sizes.
• Specializing in the automotive, aerospace and medical
technology sectors, their subsidiary, SGS Institut Fresenius
GmbH in Dortmund employs a range of methods for detailed
inspection of materials and parts.
• Enhancing the efficiency of such testing, the institute recently
added the DSX500 opto-digital microscope from Olympus to its
equipment portfolio.

5. Executive Summary
Time is money when it comes to industrial workflows, and efficiency is
a key priority. This is especially true with regard to one of the SGS
Institute's most recent projects: quality control of carbon-fiber reinforced
polymer (CFRP) parts for the new BMW i3 electric car, which has since
gone into production.

6. Quality Improved: Time Saved
As part of the quality control
process, some 300 CFRP
micrographs have to be prepared
and examined in detail before the
initial sample can be approved.

7. Quality Improved: Time Saved
As a reliable assessment of the
micrograph requires a complete
image, this was previously
accomplished at higher
magnifications by using a
microscope to capture about 20
single frames and manually
compiling them to create the full
image.

8. Quality Improved: Time Saved
This cumbersome manual
process was very time-consuming,
with each micrograph
taking between 15 and 20
minutes to compose.

9. Quality Improved: Time Saved
The arrival of the Olympus automated
DSX500 has transformed this process,
greatly reducing the time of micrograph
production to about five minutes, which
has delighted the SGS team in Dortmund
for a number of reasons.

10. Quality Improved: Time Saved
Firstly, jobs can be handled more quickly,
incredibly important for meeting customer
deadlines – which are often very tight.
Secondly, by reducing preparation time,
highly qualified staff are instead able to
focus on the important job of evaluating
the images.

11. Quality Improved: Time Saved
Employing the DSX500 has already
proved worthwhile for SGS not only
financially but also in terms of optimized
quality.

12. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
These advances have been made possible thanks to the operating
simplicity of the DSX500, together with its automated image stitching
capability.

13. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
The DSX works with an astonishing degree of accuracy when overlaying
individual images, and unlike other microscopes, single frames no longer
have to be defined manually – with a motorized table controlled by a fully
automated, high-precision fine adjustment mechanism.

14. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
This can even handle very regular structures, such as memory chips,
where multiple locations are repeated and it is difficult to determine where
the first frame ends and the next begins, even at high magnifications.

15. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
DSX500 users benefit from improved ease of use, as the microscope
generates a selection of preview images from which users can choose the
most suitable imaging method. Selecting the method automatically selects the
necessary parameters without having to input additional information.

16. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
DSX500 users benefit from improved ease of use, as the microscope
generates a selection of preview images from which users can choose the
most suitable imaging method. Selecting the method automatically selects the
necessary parameters without having to input additional information.

17. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
Users are never in danger of losing orientation on the specimen, even when
the image is reduced in size or enlarged, as the Macro Map function always
displays the viewpoint on-screen. Inspection is also facilitated with a 13-times
optical zoom and a 30-times digital zoom.

18. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
According to the team at SGS, the
DSX500 offers many great
advantages, especially in everyday
quality assurance. For example,
they routinely investigate very
homogeneous looking micrographs
of turbine blades from aircraft
engines for potential material
inclusions.

19. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
When the magnifications are
relatively high, it is not that
challenging for a metallographer to
hunt for possible irregularities, and
the intuitive user interface of the
DSX500 also enables fast
configuration for efficiently detecting
possible material faults.

20. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
Specialized functions of the
microscope, such as the High
Dynamic Range (HDR) and the
proprietary WiDER algorithm,
provide outstanding options for
inspecting objects with defects or
extreme differences in reflectance.

21. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
Thanks to the automatic system and
ease of use, essentially any staff
member can switch samples and
capture images - all the material
experts have to do is evaluate the
captured images.

22. Opto-digital Microscopy: Innovations in Quality Assurance
This presents yet another way in
which the DSX500 can enhance
efficiency, especially within the
routine testing of large numbers of
material samples, providing a
competitive edge for the laboratory.

23. Picture perfect with DIC
The experts at SGS regard the time-saving
attributes of the DSX500 as a real
advantage in optimizing analysis
workflows, but they also greatly
appreciate its advanced technical
features. The microscope's LED
illumination allows brightfield and
darkfield observation methods to be
combined, enabling the easy detection of
defects or irregularities.

24. Picture perfect with DIC
The Differential Interference Contrast
(DIC) function has also become greatly
valued, allowing uneven surfaces to be
analyzed for defects or irregularities
down to the micro- scale. A customer in
the dental technology field commissioned
SGS to analyze material separation
between two plastic parts.

25. Conclusion
After delivery of the final micrographs, the
delighted customer called to say that he
had never seen such impressive and
informative images. DIC is not new in
itself, but Olympus's enhancement with
opto-digital technology really opens up
new perspectives, and the customers of
SGS greatly appreciate the possibilities
offered by digital microscopy in general.

26. Conclusion
Thanks to the equipment and its imaging
capabilities, SGS are more often
witnessing the generation of repeat
business that they would otherwise likely
not have obtained.

27. Thank you!
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