AUTOMOTIVE
The added value that AV&R Vision & Robotics Inc. brings to the automotive industry lies in developing inspection solutions that help reduce costs and can also meet the following criteria:
- Meeting high production rates and operating in real time directly on the production line.
- Integration of specialized technologies (Frost & Sullivan award in April 2006 for a technology developed for the inspection of metal surfaces).
- Systems must be designed to be flexible and powerful enough to compensate for variations in the manufacturing process.
- Systems must be designed to allow for easy learning of new parts models that are to be inspected and to allow for easy changeover of parts.
- Systems are developed to meet the standards and tests associated with the "6 sigma" methodology.
AV&R fosters a partnership with its customers throughout each project and maintains this partnership once the project is installed and approved. This approach ensures that the required level of support is always available and gives customers peace of mind, especially in the automotive industry with its "just in time" production.
Inspection systems are developed and integrated entirely by AV&R. Optical setup, vision algorithms, materials handling, mechanical design, controls, and electrical design are all done in-house by AV&R engineers and technicians.
This approach ensures that AV&R will take full responsibility for the quality and performance of the entire system. The success of a project is never in the hands of a third party.
Examples of successful projects:
- Surface inspection and handling of finished roller bearings and bearing components
- Inspection of sub-assemblies
- Inspection and sorting of parts to be recycled
- Surface inspection of various molded aluminum parts
- Quality inspection on various engine, transmission and drive train components
- Inspection of metals and precision stamped parts
- Surface inspection of various forged and cast parts
- Inspection and validation of sub-assemblies
- Birth-history tracking and recording
- Complexity management on multi-platform production lines
- Color analysis of finished products
- 3D shape reconstruction and analysis