DIOPTIC ARGOS Nexus Pro
The Dioptic ARGOS nexus is an advanced automated solution designed to deliver objective, reliable inspection of optical surfaces. By combining high-resolution imaging with dark field illumination, the system ensures dependable detection of scratches and digs. In contrast, bright field techniques enable precise identification of coating defects, giving manufacturers full confidence in their inspection results.
The ARGOS nexus is designed to reduce inspection time, eliminate subjectivity, and extend automated inspection to a wider range of optical components and applications. ARGOS nexus is well suited for optical manufacturers producing precision optics, high-volume components, or high-value parts, as well as precision coating, R&D and process development environments.
The Dioptic ARGOS nexus is an advanced automated solution designed to deliver objective, reliable inspection of optical surfaces. By combining high-resolution imaging with dark field illumination, the system ensures dependable detection of scratches and digs. In contrast, bright field techniques enable precise identification of coating defects, giving manufacturers full confidence in their inspection results.
Objectivity, Traceability, and Efficiency with ARGOS
ARGOS replaces subjective visual inspection with automated analysis and standardised decision-making, enabling faster, more reliable quality decisions. Comprehensive inspection reports with full traceability provide valuable insights for process optimisation and simplify communication with customers and suppliers. In high-throughput production environments or where quality demands are increasing, ARGOS helps manufacturers boost efficiency, reduce inspection costs, and ensure consistently high product quality.
Faster Inspection Across More Optical Geometries
The growing complexity of optical components and increasingly strong surface curvatures push conventional inspection methods to their limits. ARGOS nexus and ARGOS nexus pro are designed to meet these challenges, enabling fast, reliable, and consistent defect detection across flat, curved, and strongly curved surfaces.
ARGOS nexus is optimised for high-throughput inspection of flat and slightly curved optics, delivering automated pass/fail decisions with full traceability.
ARGOS nexus pro extends these benefits to highly curved and complex optics through a tilt-enabled measurement head that maintains perpendicular inspection geometry, significantly reducing inspection time and enabling automated bright field and MIL inspections on curved optics.
One System for Multiple Inspection Modalities
ARGOS nexus combines dark field and bright field imaging within a single measurement head, eliminating the need for multiple setups or systems. This integrated approach enables a more complete understanding of surface defects while keeping inspection workflows simple and efficient.
Automated Inspection with Built-In Objectivity and Traceability
By replacing manual visual inspection with automated, size-based and visibility-based defect analysis, ARGOS nexus delivers objective and reproducible inspection results independent of operator experience. Automatically generated PDF reports provide clear pass/fail decisions, defect statistics, and full traceability, supporting quality assurance, process control, and customer communication.
These advantages make ARGOS nexus applicable to a broader range of optical manufacturing environments, from high-volume production to precision optics, R&D, and advanced components.
Support for Industry and Customer Standards
ARGOS nexus supports inspection according to ISO 10110-7, MIL-PRF-13830B, and custom customer specifications within a single workflow, allowing manufacturers to meet diverse quality requirements without changing systems or processes.
For an overview of the ARGOS technology view the DIOPTIC ARGOS Series - Automated Scratch/Dig Inspection Systems web page.
DIOPTIC ARGOS Nexus Specifications
