Wave Solder Inspection AI
Inspect every through-hole joint after the wave or selective solder machine for bridges, insufficient hole fill, icicles, solder balls, blowholes, and lifted leads.
Wave Solder Inspection AI for the Toughest Mixed-Technology and Through-Hole PCB Lines
Deploy Anywhere, Run Everywhere
Run wave solder inspection on post-wave, selective solder, and rework station cameras on the edge, on-prem, in your VPC, or via API.
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Tools every electronics team can adopt, from process and test engineers to quality leads, no separate ML team required.
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- Solder Bridges & Shorts Between Leads
- Insufficient Hole Fill & Barrel Fill
- Icicles, Flags & Solder Balls
- Blowholes, Pinholes & Voids
- Lifted Leads & Missing Solder
- Flux Residue & Mask Damage
“Roboflow has been instrumental in accelerating our deployment of innovative AI solutions.”
Travis Turnbull
Vice President & CIO, Pella Corporation
Talk to a Vision AI engineer who's shipped in electronics manufacturing.
Bring us your toughest wave solder inspection problem and we'll map a working solution.
Ask us about:
- Solution architecture that fits IPC-A-610 Class 2 and 3, IPC J-STD-001, and your customer quality requirements
- A live demo on your own post-wave or selective solder images
- Deployment options: edge, on-prem, air-gapped, VPC, or on the post-wave cameras and AOI stations your line already runs
- ROI modeling against manual touch-up labor, in-circuit test failures, field returns, and escapes to the customer
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- Rivian
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- USG Corporation
- BNSF Railway
- American Woodmark
Vision AI is transforming businesses
Customers across the board are solving complex challenges and driving meaningful impact.
- Automotive customer
$10 million
Saved by automatically detecting defects on the production line
- Logistics & freight company
90%
Less time spent manually tracking shipping inventory
- Building materials supplier
60%
Lower customer return rate with improved product quality
Inspect Every Through-Hole Joint After the Wave, from Solder Side to Final Touch-Up
Add a real-time inspection layer to every board leaving the wave with Roboflow Vision AI for wave solder inspection. Built for mixed-technology lines where a single bridge between connector pins or a half-filled barrel on a power component passes a quick visual check and turns up at in-circuit test or in the field.
Joint defects on the solder side:
- Detect bridges and shorts between leads on connectors, headers, and DIP packages with a model trained on your own boards and solder finish.
- Flag insufficient hole fill, missing solder, and lifted leads, including on high-thermal-mass pins where fill is hardest.
- Find icicles, flags, solder balls, blowholes, and pinholes that point to conveyor speed, preheat, or flux problems.
Component side and board condition:
- Check top-side fillet and barrel fill where it is visible, and flag solder that did not wet through.
- Detect flux residue, solder mask damage, and solder splash on the component side.
- Confirm pallet masking and selective solder keep-outs so no solder reaches areas that must stay clean.
Process drift and touch-up:
- Trend defect type by board, wave, nozzle, and shift so process engineers see preheat, contact time, or flux drift as it starts.
- Guide touch-up operators to the flagged joints with an image and location, instead of a full board search.
- Log a per-board image and result to the serial number for IPC-A-610 records and customer quality reviews.
Bring intelligence to every board after the wave today. Stop bridges and poor hole fill from becoming test failures, touch-up hours, and field returns.
Frequently asked questions
What is wave solder inspection with Vision AI?
Wave solder inspection with Vision AI uses cameras after the wave or selective solder machine and a trained computer vision model to inspect through-hole joints for bridges, insufficient hole fill, icicles, solder balls, blowholes, lifted leads, and flux residue. Results are logged per board and trended by process settings. It complements solder joint inspection, automated optical inspection, and PCB assembly inspection on SMT lines.
Can Vision AI judge hole fill on a through-hole joint?
Yes, a model trained on your own boards learns what good, marginal, and insufficient fill look like under your lighting.
Does wave solder inspection support IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001?
Wave solder inspection supports the acceptance criteria in IPC-A-610 (the acceptability standard for electronic assemblies, including through-hole solder joint and hole fill requirements by class) and IPC J-STD-001 (requirements for soldered electrical and electronic assemblies), with per-board image records for ISO 9001 quality systems and customer audits.
Roboflow serves as the inspection engine, and your quality and process engineering teams own the class, the acceptance criteria, and the touch-up and rework process.
Can it integrate with our wave solder machine, MES, and traceability?
Yes. Roboflow writes pass/fail per board to a PLC tag over OPC UA or MQTT, so the conveyor can divert a board to touch-up. Results and images can be sent over REST or written to a database for the MES and traceability layer, including Aegis FactoryLogix, Siemens Opcenter, and Cogiscan, and trends can be matched to wave solder settings from machines such as ERSA, Vitronics Soltec, and Pillarhouse.