Today's automotive and automotive supplier industries have to make production models such as just in time production, high speed production, and production in variance in order to increase their competitive power. The falling profit margins and the high cost of production disorders made it necessary to use machine vision technologies in the automotive sector.

Beginning with the Ford model T in the early 1900s, automobile mass production evolved in a series of systematic production models that were both human and geographically independent, such as lean manufacturing, cellular production, Toyota Production System and Ford Production System.

Although it has been tried to develop systems that reduce human error as much as possible (Poka-Yoke, Six Sigma, Kanban, Kaizen etc.), it can not be possible to nullify the it. Many controls that can not be done by human nature can easly be done precisely and without error by vision systems . In the automotive sector, machine vision applications are not only used for control purposes but also in many areas from robot-eye to welding applications, from piece placement to precise measurement.

As AKU, we have been working with many main and sub-contracting automotive companies in our country for many years. This enabled us to recognize the needs of our customers as well as to understand the specific problems of the automotive industry (undisrupted production under any circumstances, ability to make revisions at production stops, using components in accordance with standards, documentation, 3 shift user training arrangements etc).

The machine vision applications that we often perform in the automotive market can be grouped as follows

• Quality Control ( Determining defects addressed by quality departments)
• Position detection (Part positioning inspection, not fitted etc.)
• Precision Measurement (Diameter, misalignment, Length, Area ...)
• Pick&Place
• Bar code/data code reading
• Object identification&Classification
• OCR (optical character recognition)
• Robot Vision
• 3D Vision
• Surface Inspection
• Part Existence Control

 

As AKU, we provide industrial solutions that follow current and future trends of the automotive industry.

Case Studies

- End-of-Line Robotic Vehicle Quality Control System Final Body Check
- Engine Parts Measurement System
- Buffer defect Inspection System
- 16 Valve Assembly Missing Parts Control System
- 64 Different User's Manual Compliance Testing System
- Augmented Reality
- VoCollect