Automotive
Quality assurance for the automotive industry
Smart Klaus – the digital worker assistance system masters the complex processes and diversity of variants in the automotive industry.
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Mastering variant diversity in the automotive industry
The increasing complexity of productions in the automotive sector leads to overload and errors. These are very time-consuming and cost-intensive, which may increase the pressure on workers and reduce their ability to concentrate.
With Smart Klaus, top quality succeeds in automobile production.
The camera-based assistant detects deviations to an accuracy of tenths of a millimetre thanks to a combination of deterministic algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Areas of application in manual production
All modules of the worker assistance system
SK Receipt SK Receipt
Smart Klaus for the incoming goods inspection
The SK Receipt worker assistance system takes over numerous tasks in incoming goods: Automatic identification, quality inspection, documentation and booking.
All in just one work step.
The requirements for the inspection of incoming goods in the automotive industry are particularly high.
Complex as well as very similar assemblies and individual parts must be traceably documented and checked for quality and safety standards.
- Quality assurance of incoming goods through automatic visual inspection
- Review of relevant automotive safety standards
- Detection of minimal differences in very similar automotive parts
- Mix-ups of components are excluded thanks to optical identification
- Reduced search times and increased efficiency
- Speed and precision remain constant
- Digital work instructions and data for the incoming goods
- Every employee becomes an incoming goods expert
We were able to ensure 100% quality assurance in incoming goods and inspection processes have been reduced by a total of 2/3 overall.
SK Ident SK Ident
Smart Klaus for automatic optical identification
The SK Ident worker assistance system identifies automotive parts within seconds based on their characteristics, and automatically displays associated data. It also reliably recognises QR codes, barcodes, RFID tags or labels.
The automotive industry is experiencing a trend towards individualisation. Customers are increasingly demanding personalised options. This increases the complexity and places additional demands on the manufacturing processes.
Fast and accurate identification of components is very important. This is a challenge, especially when there is a large number of variants, similar looks and a wide variety of lettering.
Smart Klaus helps to meet complex challenges and a wide range of variants.
Eine schnelle und genaue Identifikation von Bauteilen ist sehr wichtig. Gerade bei hoher Variantenvielfalt, ähnlichem Aussehen und verschiedensten Beschriftungen ist das eine Herausforderung.
Der Schlaue Klaus hilft dabei komplexen Anforderungen und Variantenvielfalt gerecht zu werden.
- Detection of minimal differences in very similar automotive parts
- Mix-ups of components are excluded thanks to optical identification
- Reduced search times and increased efficiency
- Speed and precision remain constant
- Digital work instructions and integrated expertise for each product
- Every employee becomes a product expert
The error rate has dropped to 0. The expectation was to accurately identify components and then create inventory in the ERP system.
SK Assembly SK Assembly
Smart Klaus for manual mounting
The SK Assembly worker assistance system guides workers step-by-step through production processes using digital work instructions and permanent visual inspection.
The industrial image-processing software checks whether a work step has been carried out correctly and provides feedback in real time. This virtually eliminates errors in manual mounting.
The trend towards individualisation in the automotive industry increases the complexity of mounting enormously. Under time and production pressure, costly errors often occur.
Within the framework of quality assurance, these require additional time and personnel resources.
Smart Klaus helps to make better use of these resources, to relieve employees and to speed up the entire production process.
- Consistently high quality in the production thanks to the visual inspection
- 0 ppm possible – no more errors in the mounting process
- Time savings and increased efficiency during mounting thanks to digital instructions and automatic visual inspection
- Production defects and output are reduced
- Speed and precision remain constant
- Digital work instructions and integrated expertise
- Flexible deployment of employees – everyone becomes a manufacturing expert
- No more complaints
Since the implementation we have achieved an error rate of 0 ppm. The processes have become safer and faster. The end-of-line inspection and the 100% control are completely eliminated as a result.
SK THT SK THT
Smart Klaus for THT assembly
The SK THT worker assistance system guides workers step-by-step through THT assembly using digital work instructions and permanent visual inspection.
The industrial image-processing software checks whether a work step has been carried out correctly and provides feedback in real time. This virtually eliminates errors in manual mounting.
In manual THT assembly without a worker assistance system, human errors are unavoidable.
Consistently high concentration and accuracy cannot be maintained over several hours. Elaborate quality controls to identify and reject defective products are therefore an integral part of every manufacturing process.
The SK THT reliably supports these tasks and makes it possible to meet the highest quality requirements.
- Consistently high quality in the production thanks to the visual inspection
- 0 ppm possible – no more errors in the assembly process
- Time savings and increased efficiency during mounting thanks to digital instructions and automatic visual inspection
- Production defects and output are reduced
- Speed and precision remain constant
- Digital work instructions and integrated expertise
- Flexible deployment of employees – everyone becomes a manufacturing expert
- No more complaints
Our variant management is now significantly easier! New variants can be assembled and tested on the same day of teach-in.
SK Inspect SK Inspect
The Smart Klaus for optical quality control
The SK Inspect worker assistance system was specially designed for end-of-line quality assurance.
With this module, the worker assistant inspects and checks the quality of semi-finished and finished products after they have been fully mounted, and provides feedback.
Due to the high safety requirements in the automotive industry, vehicles and their components have to pass numerous quality assurance tests before they are put on the market.
Many errors occur in the mounting process and are ultimately not detected in the outgoing goods.
Smart Klaus identifies these errors and ensures a significantly higher level of quality in production.
- Quality assurance thanks to the downstream optical quality inspection
- Time savings and increased efficiency in end-of-line testing
- Speed and precision remain constant in the test process
- Flexible deployment of staff – everyone becomes an end-of-line expert
- No more complaints
With the Smart Klaus, NIRA KSV GmbH reduces inspection times by 75% and significantly minimizes the need for reserve samples.
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