About The Customer
World-class African research and development organisation
The Challenge
With the need for an agile manufacturing cell required to build different parts at different times with a combination of differentiated hardware to facilitate this– updating hardware, rewiring and PLC coding costs would happen frequently and this presented the need for a flexible solution
How We Did It
- By implementing ODIN Workstation throughout the work cell stations
- Advanced vision systems with integrated machine learning capabilities in order to enable virtual devices
Final Results
- Virtual devices enabling cost savings on additional hardware
- Virtual devices facilitating ease of use and facility integration
- Introduction of machine learning to the work cell
- Facilitates any immediate ergonomic adjustments required for operators and improved process flow
- Adjustments to positioning are immediate and efficient
Other Benefits
- Powerful vision systems enable ease of adjustment and is in-line with agile manufacturing practices
- Provides the platform for continued and immediate improvement to the process flow and station setup per new model/part being built
