Manufacturing Analytics
We help manufacturers to implement advanced quality control mechanisms in order to comply with the quality standards required by clients or regulators. Advanced photonics techniques can detect tiny surface defects, surface contaminants or inclusions and provide input for optimized manufacturing process control, e.g., scrap reduction, etc.
Photonics Solutions
PRECISE DIMENSIONS MEASUREMENT
Precise dimensions measurement is a common requirement in manufacturing quality control. The traditional approach using touch probes imposes significant limitations on process throughput and sample object manipulation and is therefore being replaced with optical measurements where possible. We develop custom opto-electronics solutions for dimension measurements in the range of micrometres.
COMPUTER VISION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
Our research and development team has expertise in data mining and predictive analytics, optimization, image processing, signal processing, machine learning and visualization.
APPLICATIONS
- detection of failure patterns to improve asset productivity and product quality
- analysis of hyper- and multi-spectral images for the detection of quality and anomalies within a production process
- recognition of objects in images and video for security and monitoring
- analysis of audio streams for quality assurance
- mechanical surface defects
- surface contamination with industrial pollutants (e.g., oils, detergents)
- chemical inclusions (e.g., oxides)
ADVANTAGES
- high sensitivity and specificity for material property variations
- fast, noncontact, automatic, and quantitative measurement
- high resolution
- compact design for integration into production lines for continuous analytics
- straightforward integration with other inspection systems
LASER PROFILOMETRY
Laser profilometry is a technique for measuring the 3D surface profiles of objects. The measured profiles provide quantitative information on the surface’s shape, roughness, cracks, and pits. Typical industrial applications include the detection of surface defects, sample thickness measurements, etc.
ADVANTAGES
- fast, noncontact automatic and quantitative 3D measurements
- high resolution
- compact design
- straightforward integration with other inspection systems
Software Solutions
EQUIPMENT-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORM
Our EaaS platform provides a complete management of remote machines to support the equipment-as-a-service business model.
PLATFORM FEATURES
- secure stream of machine and environment data
machine status (errors…), remote management of the machine, remote support - in-depth analytics of activity
efficiency optimization (OEE…), maintenance planning… - usage analytics
billing
SHOP FLOOR ANALYTICS
Our manufacturing analytics software platform provides real-time shop floor information which enables immediate corrective actions as well as in-depth analytics of historical activity. The data acquisition is implemented in a flexible enterprise grade data integration layer, from the finest sensor level to an ERP system to build a complete view of shop floor activity.
PLATFORM FEATURES
- near real-time shop floor information
status of resources (machines, people, products), analytical metrics (ISO 22400 KPIs: OEE, TPM, SMED …) - in-depth analytics of historical activity
- optimizations
HR management (planning optimal teams…), predictions (quality, maintenance…)
DATA INTEGRATION
- MES, ERP (SAP)
- machine Logs / databases (SCADA)
- IoT system
- LAN gateways for analog machines
- tracking of resources (presence of workers at work posts, logistic moves, etc.)
The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and European Union (EU) – European Regional Development Fund (eu-skladi.si).
Project title: Industrial Spyder
Total cost of the operation: EUR 5,790,215.25; co-financing amount: EUR 2,327,671.70.
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