The paradigm change towards flexible manufacturing is already taking place at Mapvision. We will serve as the smart factories’ eyes.
Mapvision has had a clear vision for the future of manufacturing ever since the company’s founders began their research on visual real-time industrial measurement using analog cameras and throughout the creation of our first fully digital 100% in-line inspection equipment.
Vision Becomes Reality
Although by today’s standards, the initial camera-based quality systems were not very sophisticated, the vision of the future was always evident to us: visual quality data that could be utilized to direct factories. Real-time industry automation and continuous improvement require quick, accurate, and trustworthy measurements. Before anyone had even heard of the terms, we were promoting environmentally and energy-friendly manufacturing!
There was only a small group of eager visionaries that shared it in the beginning, and it occasionally felt far away (remember, this was decades before lean manufacturing, IoT, and AI). Yet, today, it has a name that is on the lips of all designers of linked plants all over the world.
Industry 4.0 is what we have always imagined the future to be like.
Made to Measure, Inspect and Analyze
Currently, we concentrate on in-line inspection solutions that leverage fully digital multi-camera technology. By reducing waste and improving the manufacturing quality of complicated elements like the structural automobile body and chassis components, we assist our customers in reducing costs.
With the Mapvision Q Series inspection tools, we are gathering enormous amounts of visual production data and are able to provide the automotive sector with special manufacturing analytics services. You may already foresee production issues and quickly fix errors thanks to our real-time data.
We have learned a lot about contemporary manufacturing, enhancing production performance, and quality culture.
Yet this is only the beginning. We have a lot more things planned.
Next: Data-Driven Production
As a result, we have cutting-edge measurement capabilities and data from visual inspections that we may examine. Great. Let’s now utilize the data. The data that powers factories is the subject of the upcoming Mapvision chapter.
We observe robots that receive real-time feedback regarding their performance and continuous visual inspection data delivery to factory management and operators from the shop floor to the top floor. In the future, we envision connected machines and networked production lines exchanging real-time quality data. Self-adjusting factories and digitally integrated production systems are visible.
Data-driven manufacturing and smart factories that optimize output based on visual real-time quality analytics are what Mapvision will be about in the future. Visible Agile Manufacturing is what we call it. The networked world is difficult, but we think our solutions will make it easier.
The Eyes of Smart Factories
At Mapvision, we use big data and real-time quality analytics to allow smart manufacturing in order to decrease waste, boost economic value, and reduce environmental impact.
Due to their rigidity and inability to collect data for complex parts quickly enough to enable detailed visibility in real-time, the competing solutions of today are unable to meet the new standards that Industry 4.0 and flexible manufacturing have established for inspection systems of the future.
Mapvision is in a unique position to develop a quality inspection and measurement solution that can be integrated into flexible manufacturing cells since its inspection technology is quick and entirely digital. Due to the ability to change manufacturing processes quickly and use the cells for numerous components without interruption, utilization rates have greatly increased. Mapvision has a big opportunity for growth here.
When fully automated, the factories may run without any on-site human supervision in utter darkness. The camera-based inspection systems from Mapvision will be a crucial enabler of this change.
Mapvision will serve as the smart factories’ eyes.
Join the Journey!
The paradigm shift towards flexible production made possible by digital eyeballs is already taking place at Mapvision. Enabling the factory of the future excites us all.
With Mapvision Absolute Measurement, we created quality control without the use of a CMM. The ability to measure absolutely in line is provided to manufacturers. The quality inspection goes digital for the first time!
Weld seam inspection capabilities, which will be added as a software upgrade to the Mapvision Q Series inspection system, will be next in line (pardon the pun; for someone who works full-time with automobile production lines, it was difficult to resist).
We are now testing the Mapvision Smart Eye Cell, which combines our cutting-edge multi-camera technology with entirely new hardware and serves as the hub of a flexible welding cell.
The production facilities of the future will consist of a network of adaptable cells that can run automatically using closed feedback loops. You may save a tonne of floor space by replacing stiff, underused manufacturing lines with a network of these cells, and you will also have a plant that can adapt to variations in production requirements and volumes.
As we gather knowledge about the solution with our welding cell pilot in a real production environment, more details about the Mapvision Smart Eye Cell solution will be provided later.
Please get in contact if you are also interested in creating product lines that continuously adapt and improve based on visual quality data. Although we have big growth goals, we can’t achieve our vision by ourselves.
On the journey towards visual agile manufacturing, Mapvision cordially invites you to join.
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