Nike, Inc.

Chih-Chun Chai

Dragan Jurkovic

Chun-Wei Huang

Shih-Yuan Wu

Jen-Chuan Lin

Ming-Ji Lee

Chien-Liang Yeh

Systems and methods for monitoring the quality of a surface treatment applied to an article in a manufacturing process are provided. A surface treatment may be applied to at least a portion of an article. A thermal profile of the article may be obtained and used to determine temperature indications of different regions of the article to which the surface treatment has been applied. A standard model of the article may be obtained that includes model regions having model temperature ranges. The temperature indications of the article can be compared with the model temperature ranges to determine if any temperature indications are outside of a corresponding model temperature range. The article may be a shoe part. The surface treatments may include the application of heat, plasma, dye, paint, primer, and/or the application of other materials, substances, and/or processes.

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Taichung, Taiwan

Chih-Chun Chai