Driven by the wave of industrial automation, the demand for personalized customization is increasingly exploding, and the traditional mass production model of a single product is gradually transforming into flexibility and customization.
However, with the increase in product types, smaller batches, and frequent production switching, the shortcomings of the original rigid inspection system have gradually become apparent – low equipment flexibility, efficiency bottlenecks, and numerous data islands… In the process of many companies moving towards smart manufacturing, the quality inspection link has become a weak link in industrial automation.
Faced with this common challenge in the industry, Hexagon has launched a series of automated inspection solutions based on its profound technical accumulation in the field of metrology to accurately solve the inspection dilemma of multi-variety and small-batch production.
Flexible automated inspection solution for rotary parts
This solution realizes the automation of the entire measurement process, which not only significantly improves inspection efficiency and meets the production cycle, but also supports full inspection of key features of workpieces and full-size sampling inspection of first and last parts, greatly reducing labor costs.
A single pallet can be compatible with up to 29 different types of workpieces, making it extremely flexible.
At the same time, the integrated intelligent warehousing system can centrally manage a variety of workpieces and realize automatic production scheduling and dispatch without manual intervention in the entire process.
Traditional Challenges
- Traditional measurement methods rely on manual and semi-automatic equipment, with low efficiency and insufficient equipment utilization.
- Multiple varieties and small batch production, chaotic storage, and difficult management
Large - Traditional use of three-coordinate stand-alone inspection requires frequent changes of fixtures and procedures, which are cumbersome and error-prone
Solution
- Integrate a number of key technologies
, including 6 measuring machines, constant temperature machine room, intelligent material warehouse, robot handling mechanism, dual-station loading and unloading mechanism, pallet transfer mechanism, visual recognition, general control system, automated management software, statistical analysis, etc. - Integrated dual-station automatic loading and unloading and AGV automatic loading and unloading,
Supports manual/automatic operation, allowing the entire process to run completely automatically without manual intervention, and is compatible with multiple types of products - Intelligent warehousing system automatically manages the batches and status of workpieces in the warehouse, and realizes automatic production scheduling and detection of workpieces
Automated detection solution for shell parts
This solution significantly improves detection efficiency and equipment utilization through full-process automation, and meets the production rhythm of workpieces.
The system is equipped with intelligent warehousing, which can centrally manage a variety of workpieces and realize automatic production scheduling.
In terms of digitalization, after the inspection is completed, the workpiece identity information can be automatically associated and the measurement report is stored. At the same time, the data is transmitted to the user database in real time, which greatly improves the digitalization level and quality traceability of production.
Traditional Challenges
- For machining of batch parts for automatic production lines and multi-variety discrete parts in workshops
- Chaotic material management and no fixed storage location
- Traditional measurement is mainly manual, with low efficiency, low equipment utilization and high labor investment
- The traditional three-coordinate stand-alone inspection requires frequent changes of fixtures and programs, and requires many manual intervention steps and is error-prone.
Solution
- It is equipped with a three-dimensional material warehouse, a robot handling mechanism, a dual-station loading and unloading mechanism, automatic positioning of the measuring machine table, a master control system, automated management software, and statistical analysis.
Analysis, etc. - Integrated dual-station automatic loading and unloading and AGV automatic loading and unloading, supports manual/automatic operation, can realize the entire process to run completely automatically, does not require manual intervention, and is compatible with multiple types of products
- Intelligent warehousing system: effectively performs warehousing management of parts, real-time monitoring and display of parts status in warehouse locations, and automatic production scheduling and detection of workpieces
- Central control management system: According to customer testing needs, testing tasks can be flexibly configured, with statistical analysis and display capabilities of testing data
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Multi-machine flexible automated measurement solution
This type of solution realizes fully automatic online testing without operator intervention, directly saving labor costs.
Through the collaboration of automatic identification, loading and unloading and inspection, the system inspection efficiency is greatly improved.
The system supports 24-hour continuous production, greatly improving equipment utilization.
In terms of digitization and traceability, after inspection, the workpiece information is automatically associated to generate a report and connected to the user’s MES system in real time, ensuring the accuracy and traceability of the data.
Traditional Challenges
- Manual measurement of large quantities of parts requires a lot of manpower, and needs to be upgraded to automated loading and unloading, clamping and inspection
- Traditional manual measurement consumes a lot of manpower, information entry is error-prone, and traceability is difficult
- Manual work needs to be reduced to avoid workpiece contamination
Solution
- Adopt composite AGV to replace manual automatic loading and unloading
- Smart cameras automatically enter product information, replacing traditional code scanners
- Automated central control software for intelligent task distribution
- Reports are automatically integrated and uploaded to the user’s MES system
In the tide of flexible transformation in the manufacturing industry, the detection link is no longer a “bottleneck” for passive adaptation, but a value creation point that can be actively empowered.
By deeply integrating advanced metrology technology with automation and intelligent systems, Hexagon is helping manufacturing companies achieve transformation and upgrading from “batch inspection” to “real-time quality control”, from “post-event inspection” to “preventive quality assurance”, and ultimately establish new quality competitive advantages in the era of personalized customization.
