The industrial visual inspection of textured surfaces can be automated by using computationally cheap texture analysis methods, provided their parameters are well adapted to the given task. A methodology for the selection and parametrization of such methods is proposed. The inspection of several different industrial products could be successfully automated by this methodology. Some of the mentioned texture analysis methods are implemented on the Visu-al Interpretation System for Technical Applications (VISTA). VISTA hardware modules for these algorithms are available or under development. By means of these modules the inspection can be carried out in real time.