Case Studies and Application Stories in the Automotive Industry
Integrating vision into a manual assembly process
Clear Vision Systems (CVS), manufactured by Kautex Textron CVS Ltd are designed to keep vehicle headlamps or the sensors used in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems clean from dirt, dust, frost, snow, and pollution.
The tubing assemblies used in these systems are constructed completely by hand. To ensure the highest quality standards and efficient production, Kautex integrated a complete vision system as part of the assembly process.
Direct interfacing of smart 3D vision system with robots
The use of small to medium-sized collaborative robots for factory automation applications is growing at a rapid rate.
Many of these applications are pick-and-place, so the robots require machine vision to visualize the scene, process information to make control decisions and execute precision-based mechanical movements.
Automotive PCB assembly enhanced
A new approach to manual PCB assembly verification has helped one manufacturer significantly improve the quality of boards it manufactures for use in car audio devices. A self-contained camera system ensures that almost 50 components are correctly assembled before the boards move to the next stage.
Inline testing of the wettability of material surfaces
With the new bonNDTinspect® system, Automation W+R enables the reliable assessment of surfaces that are to be bonded, painted or otherwise treated in subsequent process steps. The system is based on a patent held by Fraunhofer IFAM and machine vision components from STEMMER IMAGING.
Every day the lives of millions of people depend on intact tyres on cars and airplanes. The Carl Zeiss Optotechnik tyre inspection systems equipped with STEMMER IMAGING’s state-of-the-art machine vision components provide the maximum possible safety in this domain.
Vision-based inspection of sheet metal parts by comparing CAD data
Eight Teledyne DALSA Spyder3 line scan cameras form the core of an inspection system developed by the Bavaria-based Sturm-Gruppe. The system checks sheet metal parts for compliance with required quality standards by using their CAD data for direct comparison.
3D vision system checks car seats
The Dakota system is designed for quality inspection of injection moulded polyurethane foam blocks for example for use in car seats.
3D surface analysis of small metal parts
An inspection system built by machine manufacturer Zorn detect errors with the integrated Trevista imaging system.
Car relay and fuse box inspection
Manual relay and fuse box inspection lacks a record of inspection. See in this video how machine vision solves this issue and delivers an automatic failure reporting before cars leave the factory.
Vision software for track and trace applications
Industrial vision plays an important role in reading unique identifiers in the form of 1D or 2D codes, alphanumerics or even braille for tracking and tracing applications in industries as diverse as aerospace, automotive, healthcare and pharmaceutical.
Reliable inspection of fasteners
Up to 600 metal or injection-moulded components are inspected and sorted in an inspection plant manufactured by GEFRA.
100% testing of steering components
Any driver’s nightmare: the steering does not respond properly or not at all! To prevent situations like these, the automotive supplier Swoboda relies on the trevista image processing system for testing the components of for electronic steering controls.
Quality assurance of commercial vehicle brakes
Zero-defect tolerance. This is the guiding principle for disc brake production at Knorr-Bremse. An imaging system checks the correct mounting of the brakes.
Fast surface inspection of complex cast components
The CapaCam inspection system from the Fraunhofer Institute damage to complex cast components at Daimler AG.
Vision system and robotics ensure 100% quality
Johnson Controls uses 8 cameras to test up to 70 characteristics of car cockpits in 2 variants on the basis of 4 criteria.
Reliable under rough conditions
Thyssen Metal Forming: Reliable and effective use of vision systems in extremely rough industrial environment.