Production of quality composite materials involves an automated inspection system – but what are the benefits of automated monitoring?
Imagine measuring in real time the downtime of your production systems as well as the inspection time carried out by your operators. Additionally, there are the costs for mitigation non-conformities. With all these factors in mind, the room for improvement becomes apparent. Naturally, an evaluation of the return on investment in an automated inspectio system for your production is due.
Analyze and evaluate your production costs
Before investing, you must know different criteria relating to your production line:
- RoR (synthetic rate of return)
- Productivity
- The number of operators
- And the cost of internal non-conformities
Artificial vision allows for an automated quality control of production processes. It generates productivity gains and/or a reduction in production costs. Investing in an automated inspection system for composite materials must therefore answer several questions:
- Does the system reduce inspection time?
- Does the system avoid investing in additional production lines?
- Does the system avoid investing in lines dedicated to quality control?
- Is it more efficient than detection carried out by a quality inspector?
- Will it reduce my customer return rate?
- Does it ensure traceability of inspections?
- Does it contribute to the continuous improvement process?
The composite materials inspection systems developed by Edixia Automation (which is now part of Testia) do answer these questions. Moreover, they are among the most efficient systems on the market.
The benefits of Testia’s automated inspection system
Technological focus:
- Testia’s automated inspection system is equipped with cutting-edge technologies.
- The reliability of inspections is ensured by an optical sensor combined with digital processing software.
- It is developed within our R&D department and industrialized on numerous customer sites.
An automated inspection system for composite materials, in-line and in real time, therefore reduces inspection time by up to 30 %. Equipped production lines increase their productivity accordingly. Additional investment into increased production capacity thus often becomes unnecessary. In the basic materials manufacturing sector, production costs are tight. This is why integration directly into the production line avoids costly investment in an additional quality control line.
Being equipped with great flexibility, our system adapts to customer needs by being configured to their required level of quality. The data is recorded during the various checks and then are processed by a statistics tool. These analytics feed into the continuous improvement process and support the evaulation of root causes of non-conformities. Beyond a mere monitoring system, Testia’s solution therefore serves as a real accelerator of your production chain performance.
Based on your needs, Testia can provide experts and technologies for an evaluation of your potential direct gains on quality and indirect gains on productivity.
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This article was originally published by Edixia Automation, now part of Testia