addaScan, based in Johannesburg, designs and integrates machine vision inspection systems for manufacturers across South Africa. Our automated inspection solutions cover label verification, date code inspection, surface defect detection and dimensional measurement, with each station developed around your products, inspection requirements and production line. An addanode brand.
// Service coverage
Johannesburg engineering for South Africa and cross-border projects
From Johannesburg, addaScan also assesses projects for manufacturers in the African countries listed in its country guidance. Equipment supply and any installation, site acceptance, training or support are agreed per project; engineers travel from Johannesburg for agreed site work.
Initial enquiries can be submitted in English, French or Portuguese. The working language of technical documents, training and ongoing support is agreed for each project.
Machine vision inspection stations: design, build, integration, commissioning and support.
Sister brand
CISH
Complete production lines for African manufacturers. CISH coordinates the line project; vision inspection stations on those lines are delivered by addaScan.
addaScan projects are run by an addanode team. The same people take a project from the first sample test to handover and support after handover; their full profiles are on the addanode team page.
More than twenty years across hardware and software design, with a strong academic grounding, and experience leading large international engineering collaborations. At addaScan Frank defines the inspection requirement with the customer, reviews each station design and signs off the factory acceptance test. He also writes the technical articles and guides on this website.
Machine vision project delivery
Factory and site acceptance testing
Hardware and software product design
Gary Mumford
Software, data & system architecture
More than thirty years in electronics and software design, specialising in system architecture, database design, data security and cloud services. At addaScan Gary is responsible for what happens to inspection results after the decision: how images, batch records and reject reasons are stored, secured and handed to MES, ERP or reporting systems, so a station leaves a traceable record.
Inspection data and traceability
System integration and databases
Data security
Alice Lee
Procurement & logistics
More than eleven years running complex global supply-chain operations, with strategic supplier partnerships, quality-assurance protocols and responsible procurement. At addaScan Alice sources the cameras, lenses, lighting and vision controllers for each station, checks incoming hardware, manages import and delivery, and keeps lead times for recommended spare parts visible.
Vision hardware sourcing
Incoming quality checks
Import and delivery
Mosa Lebombo
Automation, integration & commissioning
Qualified Millwright (trade test), N Diploma in Electrical Engineering and certified Siemens programmer, with more than ten years in heavy industrial automation. Mosa has commissioned and modernised ceramic-tile factories, working with Sacmi and Nuova Era lines, Omron and Siemens PLCs and SCADA, and worked as an instrumentation technician and integrator on a gold-mine start-up. At addaScan he leads the PLC and reject integration, installation and site acceptance: the part where a station has to work on a real South African line.
PLC and reject integration
Siemens and Omron PLCs, SCADA
Installation and commissioning
Thomas Tau
Programme delivery & governance
Qualified in law and in project and programme management, with more than fifteen years in infrastructure finance and programme delivery across local government and mining. At addaScan Thomas supports larger inspection programmes where procurement documents, contracts and approval steps have to be in place before anything is built or installed.
Programme management
Procurement and contracts
Project governance
// How we work
Four working principles
These decide how every project runs, from the first reply to the handover. Technical articles on this website are written by Frank Guo.
01
Samples before proposals
We prove the defect is visible on your own parts before we specify hardware or quote.
02
Limits agreed up front
False rejects, missed defects and how they are measured are written into the proposal.
03
Part of the line
Optics, mounting, PLC signals and the reject are designed together with your line.
04
Documented handover
Recipes, backups, documentation and training, so the station stays useful after we leave.
// Scope
What we do and what we do not do
What we do not do
Boxed cameras. We do not sell cameras without checking the application.
Quotes without evidence. We do not quote a station before the defect has been shown to be visible.
Promises of perfection. We do not promise zero missed defects; every threshold is a trade-off agreed with you.
Checks a camera cannot do. Internal defects, leak tightness and adhesive strength need other methods.
What we do
Application assessment and sample tests on your parts.
Station design: camera, lens, lighting, processing and mounting.
Inspection recipes built and tuned on HIKROBOT VisionMaster.
Integration with your PLC and reject, FAT, installation, SAT, training and support.
// Where and how to reach us
Based in Johannesburg, Gauteng, working across South Africa
Reply timeAn engineer replies within two working days
// FAQ
About addaScan
Who is responsible for delivering and supporting an addaScan station?
addaScan, a brand of addanode. The same team takes a project from the sample test through design, installation and handover, and is the contact for support afterwards under the agreed support plan.
How is addaScan related to addanode and CISH?
addaScan and CISH are sister brands under addanode. addaScan designs and integrates vision inspection systems; CISH coordinates wider production-line projects, and when a CISH line needs vision inspection, addaScan delivers the station. addaScan is not a division of CISH. addanode itself works on industrial IoT.
Where do you work?
We are based in Johannesburg and work with production sites in South Africa. Projects outside South Africa are confirmed case by case.
Who works on an addaScan project?
An addanode team: Frank Guo leads delivery and acceptance, Mosa Lebombo leads PLC and reject integration and commissioning, Gary Mumford the inspection data and system integration, Alice Lee the hardware sourcing and logistics, and Thomas Tau the programme and contract side of larger projects.
Who writes and reviews the technical content on this website?
Technical articles and guides are written by Frank Guo, addaScan’s technical lead. Each page lists its sources and the date of its last content update. Where a page has had a separate technical review, that page shows the reviewer and the review date.
How do I choose a machine vision company in South Africa?
Machine vision companies South African plants compare range from camera distributors to specialist integrators. Ask each supplier five things: will they test your own good and defective samples before proposing hardware; who designs the PLC signals and the reject; how the false reject rate and missed defect rate are defined and measured at FAT and SAT; who builds which parts of the station; and who supports it after handover. The answers show whether you are buying a camera or a working station.
Are you a HIKROBOT distributor?
We build our stations on HIKROBOT VisionMaster and specify HIKROBOT hardware, but this website does not claim any official partnership or distributor status. Our role is the integrator responsible for the working station.
