Distributed system for online quality control and production process assessment for the automobile industry

Author

Fernández, C. ; Pastor, J.A. ; Iborra, A. ; Suardíaz, J. ; Álvarez, B. ; Fernández-Meroño, J.M.

Author_Institution

DSIE, Univ. Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

188

Abstract

The paper describes the distributed control solution for quality assessment developed for the automobile industry with the aim of controlling the production process of valuable mechanical pieces. A suitable control structure and software architecture was developed, which include a quality assessment system, intelligent production process assessment system, and tracking system. These are online fed with inspection data gathered by different nondestructive testing systems: a visual inspection system, optical roughness assessment system and laser measurement system. The system has been successfully installed and is under evaluation at the Renault VI factory in Spain

Keywords

automatic optical inspection; automobile industry; distributed control; nondestructive testing; quality control; real-time systems; software architecture; tracking; SMARTMEC; automobile industry; distributed control; laser measurement system; nondestructive testing; optical roughness assessment; production process; quality assessment; software architecture; tracking system; visual inspection system; Automobiles; Control systems; Distributed control; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Inspection; Process control; Production systems; Quality assessment; Quality control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 2001. IECON '01. The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2001.976477

Filename

976477