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Vision-based CMM system speeds up car inspection

05/11/2005 9:08 AM

French car-maker Renault plans to use a robot-mounted imaging system, designed by ActiCM, to speed up the inspection process on newly built cars. The vision-based co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) can inspect and validate an assembled car body in under two hours. Full inspection with a traditional mechanical CMM system takes around 10 hours.

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Accuracy

05/11/2005 9:57 AM

I'm just curious to see if the rate of defects goes up or down. If there is a defect that the robot doesn't know to look for, almost all of products can have it.

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05/11/2005 10:04 AM

I don't know if that is a relavent assumption. The traditional mechanical versions would be just as vulnerable to missing defects if proper oversite was not provided during programming and testing.

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05/11/2005 10:10 AM

My question is more of a trading speed for accuracy. This machine is faster, and I assume more accurate, but where do you draw the line for "accurate enough" with something like an automobile?

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