Elite Robotics – Who Makes Car Dashboard Screens Bigger and Bigger?

01 Background

With the development of intelligent IVI systems, the screen size of the dashboard has also changed dramatically to provide a better visual interactive experience and content display. More and more cars are installing dashboard screens. A large screen has better scalability as it can display more content and be better customized. The auto parts factory located in East China has been developing large-screen IVI solutions for a long time, focusing on interactive experience and user needs - with outstanding advantages in product stability, safety and reliability. As the need for customization increases, manufacturers need to be more flexible to meet the requirements for fast changeovers and high variety of production lines. As a result, they were looking for flexible automation solutions that could increase productivity.

02 Pain points

One of the most widely used scenarios for cobots to date is in the automotive parts industry. Assembly plants and Tier 1 manufacturers, including Continental Automotive, Valeo, BMW, Audi, SAIC Volkswagen, Nissan, and others, have introduced cobots for back-end handling, assembly, screw locking, inspection, gluing, and other application processes. Unlike traditional industrial robots that require safety fences, cobots can share workspaces with humans. In addition to this, cobots offer a variety of interfaces and are easy to program. This makes them very flexible, lightweight, safe and easy to program. Therefore, more and more factories are referring to the application scenarios of cobots and transforming existing production lines. Use, correct installation, correct wiring, correct setting of various tools and process parameters.

Elite Robotics – Who Makes Car Dashboard Screens Bigger and Bigger?

In this case, the customer wanted to deploy a cobot at a checkpoint where the dashboard screen stayed for 75 seconds, leaving no room for error. Each product needs to manually check the button and touch screen, and only when the product is qualified can it enter the next process. "Until now, we have performed this task manually," says the director of engineering, "however, it is difficult to eliminate errors and omissions with manual operations, so we have always wanted to replace manual operations with automated solutions to improve efficiency and accuracy of product inspection." ”

The customer deployed an EC63 (3kg payload) cobot at a touchscreen quality inspection workstation. When the EC63's stylus touches the screen, if there is no quality issue, the screen moves to the next step. If an anomaly is detected, the display will show "NG" and a signal light will light up and sound an alarm, so the operator can immediately notice the situation and fix it in time.

03 Solution

Two EC63 desktop cobots are deployed at the end inspection station, with the left robot performing key detection and the right robot being responsible for touch screen detection. Cobots are particularly suitable for space-constrained automation and meet the requirements of curved or double-sided screen detection.

"In order to ensure the safety of our employees, we conducted a risk assessment in accordance with the company's safety requirements. For example, when we first launched EC63, we made some minor adjustments to ensure safety. Because cobots can work with greater accuracy and stability than humans, they are still able to meet production line schedules. In addition, the quality of the inspection work has been improved.

The entire cycle time from robot delivery to overall system design, installation and testing, and go-live operation takes approximately 1.5 months. Connecting the robot to external devices such as PLCs and PCs is a difficult step. "After about two weeks of testing, we built our own stand-alone system," the customer said. Notably, Elite worked with the customer to improve the fixture design. After repeated fine-tuning, the adaptability of the gripper touch has been improved to support the various touch modes required for inspection.

Talking about the introduction of the cobot, the person in charge of the inspection station said confidently: "Employees are prone to errors when using the touch screen system, but I am glad that the cobot can do its job accurately. The robot can perform inspections. ” ”

In fact, the cobot saved users 1.5 people in labor costs and paid for itself in 18 months. As a result, the company plans to deploy more cobots on other production lines. "The assembly process has always been labor-intensive, and in the future we may deploy robots to complete these tasks; After all, flexible automation is the big trend of the future. In the future, it's not just Elite – the confidence and experience users gain in practice will bring more inspiration.

Elite Robotics – Who Makes Car Dashboard Screens Bigger and Bigger?

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