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In recent years, there has been an increasing need for production to improve by utilizing information processing technology by utilizing the data generated by control equipment at production sites. Since the needs are diversifying and the improvement of information processing technology does not stop, there are a need for an environment where applications can quickly respond to the needs of the field ...

In the manufacturing industry, automation of manufacturing, especially the introduction of robots, is being actively promoted because of labor shortages and rising labor costs, but installation space, start-up person-hours, and flexibility at work are issues to be addressed. In particular, a 3D sensor is essential to estimating the position and orientation of parts accurately in bin picking applications, and a robot hand-mounted 3D ...

In the product assembly process, there is the work of supplying parts randomly stacked in a container to an automated machine. This is called bin picking. In response to the recent shortage of labor at manufacturing sites and the increase in labor costs, automation of this work is required. By realizing bin picking using 3D sensors and industrial robots, it is possible to manufacture a wide variety of products using the same system, and it is possible to reduce the cost and time of the start-up of the production line. At this time, in order to realize the same speed as a human, it is important ...

The Inspection System Division has traditionally performed 3D measurement of printed mounting boards and inspected them according to quantified quality standards. AOI (Automated Optical Inspection) and AXI (3D-CT method) inspect the shape of solder. The automated x-ray inspection, Q-upNavi, analyzes...

The wetting inspection of solder on components is the most important part of the board appearance inspection. However, solder forms various shapes because of the shape of electrodes, pads, and land. In addition, it is difficult to correctly measure the solder shape due to phenomena, such as shadows, and secondary reflections...

In recent years, the cost of labor for high-quality workers has been rising in Japan and other countries that have shifted from manufacturing to services, and there is a growing need to automate robots in medium- to low-volume production site, which has been done mainly by hand. Therefore, we focused on the kitting process, which is essential in the pre-assembly process of medium- and low-volume production, and examined the feasibility of ...

At the manufacturing site, it is necessary to improve processing accuracy while maintaining and improving productivity. As a result, in recent years, variations and fluctuations in materials and machines at manufacturing sites cannot be ignored. At the manufacturing site, in order to suppress such disturbance effects, various control...

We report on the development of a highly reliable safety system that ensures that the equipment continues to operate while maintaining safety functions without making emergency stops due to system errors caused by soft errors. As semiconductor devices become more highly integrated and miniaturized, transient bit errors (soft errors) in memory are a problem....

In order to enable persons and robots to work in the same shared space at manufacturing sites, robot trajectory planning technologies have been developed for robots to avoid collisions with persons during operation. However, by conventional technologies, since the operation must be temporarily stopped before the robot performs collision avoidance,...

In the manufacturing industry, it is important to identify the optimal production conditions using statistical methods, such as design of experiments. However, the number of experiments is often reduced through the use of knowledge and other means, which leads to lack of accuracy in the response surface model (RSM) for predicting product quality....

Rapidly changing market needs have resulted in the demand for shorter launching times for production facilities. In conventional methods where only physical machines were used, production facility launches took longer because of stand-by time and teaching positions and orientations of robots. A virtual launching...

In recent years, due to soaring labor costs and the spread of a new type of coronavirus, there has been an increasing demand to save labor at the production sites. However, the need for industrial robots, especially vertical articulated robots, has been increasing as one of the laborsaving measures,...

In an imaging system with multi-CH lighting, this paper addresses the issue of optimizing the lighting conditions and the imaging conditions of the camera so that they are suitable for visual inspections. The proposed method establishes a technique for accurately simulating an image of a workpiece...

Traditionally, system behaviors has been expressed by creating activity and sequence diagrams in the system design of the PCB Inspection System. However, it is difficult to specify the abnormal behaviors of the systems in the design phase to prevent the inclusion of defects as the system becomes highly functional...

Various interactive manufacturing systems are developing to enable humans and robots to produce products in cooperation. For safety designers who design the safety of interactive manufacturing systems face difficulties to select a practical safety design method. The origin of this issue is a lack of appropriate safety standards...

The environment for constructing information systems, such as faster networks, lower costs, and larger storage capacity, is becoming available at the production site. With these technologies, OMRON realizes an information system that covers the sensor level using the open network IO-Link as a future factory. And the....

With the spread of IoT, embedded devices are also connected to the Internet, which is in danger of security attacks. If a security attack stopped the control of embedded devices, substantial damage is expected. Therefore, a measure is demanded....

In this paper, we deal with the grasping points estimation for robotic bin picking. Usually, grasping points are estimated by using 3D CAD of the object to be grasped. However, it becomes difficult to estimate the grasping points for non-rigid objects....

The demand for oxygen concentrators that support COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patients will increase in the future. The device supplies oxygen generated by concentrating the surrounding air, and it is necessary to monitor the oxygen....

In the visual inspection of the substrate, the crystal structure becomes irregular when the electrode is in the form of a thin film, causing an inconsistent color in the reflection characteristics when imaging is performed using coaxial lighting. The inconsistent....

In recent years, power outages and ignition accidents caused by abnormal temperature rises in panel components due to aging of facilities have been increasing. Consequently, for example....

There are two problems that arise of generating more wiring work for sensors with a tooling change in high-mix low-volume production and increasing downtime by breaking. Therefore, the introduction of a wireless interface is considered. There....

In recent years, it has been necessary to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs by using AI and IoT in the manufacturing industry to reduce the impacts from the shortage of skilled workers and increased labor costs. To meet these requirements, the amount....

Recently, manufacturers have some common issues such as highly developed manufacturing, complicated manufacturing, or manufacturing with few skilled people. They are trying to solve these issues by IoT technologies based on big-data which are...

In the manufacturing industry, there is lack of engineers who are responsible for maintenance, due to environmental changes such as a declining birth rate and an aging population. In addition, the existing equipment has becoming decrepit, so the frequency...

In the board mounting industry, there are an increasing number of parts and boards that are difficult to be insepected with AOI because solder is invisible. And high quality requirements such as bonding strength of the automobile industry and full surface...

In recent years, it has become important to make a full use of sensing data from control devices like sensors via new IT technology such as AI. To accelerate this, it is important to collect and transform ill-formed sensing data from control devices to...

With increasing high-mix low volume production in manufacturing industry, more flexible production facility is required for rearrangement of factory layout. Wireless pushbutton switch requires no signal line and no power supply line by internal...

In recent years, in the manufacturing industry, the need to utilize AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) at the manufacturing site continues to rise in order to improve availability of facilities and stably produce high quality...

At the manufacturing site, the labor force is chronically short. In the future, productivity is expected to decline due to a decrease in skilled technicians, and there is a demand for labor saving. In view of these backgrounds, we are promoting labor saving by...

Along with the recent global trend, consumer needs in the market are getting more diversified, and manufacturers are required to produce new products in a short cycle. Manufacturing companies have installed new equipment and added new production...

In recent years, the need has continually risen for the introduction of AI and the internet of things (IoT) on manufacturing floors. It allows manufacturers to contain the impact of skilled worker shortages and surging labor costs, while...

In the automotive industry, the increase in the number of recalls is a problem. In order to respond quickly when a recall occurs, there is likewise an increasing importance of individual part identification to identify when and where all...

In recent years, manufacturing companies need to respond the request of “multi-variety, variable-volume production” in the era of diversified needs. Along with that, they also need to develop safety systems that can be flexibly modified...

In production lines, stable operation of machines is one of the most important factors so that it is required to have scheduled maintenance at the right timing. In most maintenance scenes, maintenance personnel will...

In recent years, the importance of traceability is increasing to respond to quality problems such as recall of automobile industry. In order to realize traceability and fulfill its social responsibility, companies...

In this paper, we propose a technique to detect various defects in uniform background objects (hairline, satin, etc.) in visual inspection system. “Human resources shortage” and “ diversification of consumer needs...

Conventional triangulation method has been the mainstream for displacement sensors, but on leading-edge manufacturing of customers, there have been the problems of the tuning difficulties when setting by the...

Recently, manufacturers of printed circuit boards are required more high quality and more cost competitiveness. Therefore the manufacturing lines must keep high quality autonomously without human skills and work.Omron...

The equipment maintenance and production management for manufacturing, which have been dependent on experience and knowledge of workers, are being improved by AI, IoT, and big data. It is necessary to collect and analyze...

Recently, activities of productivity improvement have been attempted at production sites with predictive approaches. Cloud-based machine monitoring systems were once introduced but were not prevailing due to cost...

To solve various control problems in the manufacturing process, Omron pursues advanced integrated control technology of ILO(Input-Logic-Output). In addition to providing ILO devices capable of high-speed and highprecision...