AI Enhanced Vision Systems for improving detection efficiency in high volume and high value products
DETECT aims to create a plug-in, easy to configure AI driven solution, including both the hardware and the software, allowing the detection of defects and the measurements of object’s dimensions in 2D and 3D space.
About
DETECT project is an initiative led by a consortium of partners, each contributing distinct expertise and aims to boost manufacturing sustainability. Our main goals are:
- Enhance Manufacturing Sustainability
- Utilize Cutting-Edge Technological Hardware & Software
- Early Defect Detection
- Enhance Production Modularity & Scalability
Objectives
Utilize cutting-edge technology
With the rise of Industry 4.0, vision systems play a pivotal role in manufacturing. DETECT will utilize cutting-edge technology such as
cameras, sensors and machine learning algorithms to capture and analyze visual data, enabling real-time monitoring, quality control and optimization of manufacturing operations. Integrating such systems provides the ability to detect and prevent defects early in the production line, as high-resolution hardware will be combined with sophisticated image processing algorithms to identify even the tiniest imperfections in products, components, or raw materials.
Early detection of defects not only ensures that only high-quality items proceed to the next stage, but it also minimizes the need for
rework, reducing material waste, conserving resources and energy while allowing the production of higher quality end products,
minimizing the environmental impact associated with production processes.
Enable precise measurements and dimensional accuracy
Moreover, the DETECT vision system will enable precise measurements and dimensional accuracy during manufacturing processes. It can measure critical dimensions, tolerances, alignments as well as alphanumeric characters with exceptional precision, ensuring compliance with the initial design and allowing real-time adaptation of machines to compensate for any detected deviations.
A key selling point of the system is the fact that the DETECT solution will incorporate its AI induced ability, to perform assessments that can capture subjective aspects i.e. evaluate conditions that today only human operators can through using their senses.
Support designing and re-designing of the product and the supply chain
Apart from the sustainability benefits contributing to decarbonization of manufacturing industries in compliance with the Green Deal strategy, DETECT solution will also provide valuable data to support designing and re-designing of the product itself as well as the supply chain, enabling the reduction of manufacturing defects and increased reusability. This will be wrapped around a modular system able to support a variety of hardware depending of the needs of the end user, while being easy to be configured/reconfigured in short time, eliminating the need to involve vision or programming experts.
Additionally, DETECT solution will integrate the proposed AI system in the traceability
process. The enhanced vision system will be able to be connected to the customers ERP systems (e.g. SAP, window, android) allowing in this way an increased degree of automation and data accuracy.
Consortium
AVIO AERO is the leading company in the aeronautic business sector for the design, manufacturing and maintenance of components and systems for civil and military aero engines. AVIO AERO is present in the entire life cycle of the product, from the design and planning phase to that of production and services, always at the cutting edge of technology thanks to substantial investments in R&D and a solid collaboration network with the most prestigious Italian and international universities and research centers. AVIO AERO will contribute to this project by providing a real use case, based on the inspection required on Low Pressure Turbine components.
CTAG is the Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia located at O Porriño in Spain. CTAG is a private, non-profit technological center created in 2002 dedicated to R&D and technological innovation of manufacturing industries. Its mission is to contribute to the improvement of companies’ competitiveness, offering support to their modernization. CTAG has more than 1000 employees and brings together a specialized team focused on Industry 4.0, working on topics related to process engineering, simulation, robotics, bigdata, AI, exoskeletons and other 5.0 key technologies, following a human-centric approach and focused on sustainability. CTAG has collaborated in more than 50 EU projects, being a member of EIT Urban Mobility.
Santer Reply operates with its Business Unit Concept Reply in the area of applied IoT since 2009, leveraging on 10 years of experience in design, development and engineering of mobile devices. Thanks to international industry relationships from the REPLY group, Santer Reply is able to consult their industrial customers providing sensor scoping, end-to-end advanced engineering services, edge/fog computing and large deployment of IoT-enabled digital platforms for business transformation in almost any field from energy to buildings, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, finance & banking, telco & media, automotive etc.
The Sidenor Group is active in the production, processing and trading of steel products, being today the largest Greek steel product manufacturing industry, with a leading position both in Greece and in Southeast Europe The Group’s main priorities are the high quality of its products and services, the emphasis on innovation, investments in excellent technological equipment, the customer centric approach to its activities and the development of its employees. The technological superiority, at the level of the production base, combined with the sales network, inside and outside Greece, allow the Sidenor Group to maintain its leading position in the industry of production, processing and trading of steel products.
Teaching Factory Competence Center is oriented on providing education and innovation services to the manufacturing industry. The competence center is focuses on enabling the knowledge exchange between the academia and industry and on creating added value for the services and products of manufacturing companies by promoting innovative technology and research activities performed by academia. For this scope, the TF CC provides a set of Learning Services and Innovative Technical Services to their customers aiming to the Interdisciplinary learning, research & experimentation and to exploit of research results towards industrial applicability in pilots.
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