Inspector Gadgets

100 percent vs. sampling

The term 100 percent inspection has been made very confusing over the years. But simply put, said Jim Doerr, president and CEO of TruColor Vision Systems, Inc. (LaGrange, Ga.), "One hundred percent inspection must meet the requirement that every single inch (or meter) of the substrate, both in the repeat and across the web is being processed, captured, and/or inspected 100 percent of the time during production. If this is not the case, then the system is sampling."