Bruker Alicona 3D Measurement Technology in Smart Manufacturing

By OEM Update Editorial September 5, 2020 11:38 am IST

When measurement technology becomes the smart eye for production

Today’s production managers require greater flexibility for small batch size production and tight tolerances. With its solutions for smart manufacturing, Millenia Technologies demonstrates how Alicona metrology contributes towards profit.

On many production lines, the use of measurement technology for quality assurance is still realised off-line. Inspection equipment is often located at the end of a production chain and the quality of a component is only determined when it has already been manufactured. In the worst case, the component fails to meet the specified tolerances, making it necessary to move through all phases of the production cycle again. As a consequence, measurement technology is often perceived as an expensive, time consuming exercise with no added value. Smart manufacturing moves quality assurance out from unloved shadow behind the scenes into a new role, center stage. As an integral part of the production chain, it actively engages in manufacturing operations and corrects production steps when a single component does not meet the correct tolerances. As a result, faulty components are no longer produced; first parts are good parts.

Concept: 3D measurement technology as a smart eye
Alicona´s Focus-Variation offers the ideal platform for using optical 3D measurement technology in production, as it is combined with areal-based high-resolution 3D measurement sensors that can be flexibly integrated. All involved systems are digitised and linked using intelligent interface technology and the provided measurement solutions can be individually customised. This gives manufacturers real-time data on production processes, allowing them to intervene at an early stage. As a consequence, smaller batch quantities with closer tolerances can be produced to a higher level of quality and precision.

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