Sistema de inspeção visual para identificação de controle remoto em linha de montagem

Abstract

Currently, with the exponential evolution of new automation technologies, large industries are increasingly betting on the implementation of tests on their assembly lines. These tests are able to ensure safety, quality and reliability of the products during the assembly process and of its finished products. Some quality indicators, or KPIs, are used to evaluate these products, such as the Product Analysis Laboratory, or LAP. At the Whirlpool company, during the LAP, some products without remote control were identified inside the packaging. The same situation was identified by another KPI, which indicates the field incidents, that is, which occurred at the customer's home, customers were receiving products without remote control. Due to these issues, there was a need to implement a test to ensure that the remote control was always placed and identified inside the EPS before the product was packaged. The solution found was the use of a vision system installed at the workstation, interlocked with a product movement hoist. This implementation ensures that only if the remote control is placed in the EPS and the test status is approved, the movement hoist will be released and the product placed in the EPS to be packaged.