Frequently arising problems of production:

- Produced parts get mixed up at production or storage
- Parts have to be manually sorted for the customer before shipment
- Wrong parts get into delivery because of their similarity
- Wrong parts cause processing problems for customers, leading to customer dissatisfaction

Small parts manager
automat for assortment of small parts

Hardware

high resolution camera installed in housing

industrial pc with 15’’ TFT touch screen monitor

user terminal

automatic positioning of the camera with a stepping motor (option)

special illumination

aluminium panel (contain all control components)

trigger-sensor

strong fixing system to fix the control enclosure close to the machine centre

Software

userfriendly windows surface

standard operating system Windows XP

displays the live camera picture and quality result on the screen

teach-in feature to adjust all settings to the new production job

program surface changeable to your language

Properties

image processing compares accord with teached-in samples

parts are sorted by according signals to different boxes

faulty and defect parts are sorted out to an extra box

the system can be translated to other sorting tasks

remote access software available

demoversion on CD available

Troubleshooting with Small parts manager:

- With the teach-in-function several parts can be teached to image processing
- If the produced part fits the taught sample it is sorted into its adequate container
- If the produced part does not fit the sample, if it’s faulty or defect, it is sorted out into a different container
- The automatic sorting lowers production costs
- Error-free sorting leads to customer satisfaction