An automated optical shelf welding pre-inspection system

An automated optical shelf welding pre-inspection system

Since Germany proposed Industry 4.0 in 2013, it has driven the industry toward the goal of automation and smart manufacturing. The COVID-19 epidemic in the past two years has accelerated this development trend. Manufacturing production lines will inevitably develop toward automation and intelligence in the future. In the development of the manufacturing industry, welding technology has always been the most indispensable part of the overall manufacturing process. In the general traditional manual welding operation, the operator can weld and inspect at the same time to ensure the quality of the welding. However, our implemented system applied an automated optical inspection technique to pre-inspect the metal wire of the shelf before welding with the parts. The operators use this system for collaborative inspection, which reduces the workload of manual inspection and improves the work efficiency and quality of shelf welding. After the on-site experiment, the system's functions are also expanded according to the production line requirements, especially the automatic parameter function provided to reduce the complexity and time of on-site parameter adjustment.