Machinery Update | March / April 2021

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Installation News
Quality of chainsaw
is ‘seen’ to be great
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Hose-down tolerant
(tested to IP69K)
Hygienic design and
Clean-In-Place
compatible
No waste catchment
areas and no flaking
paint
Worm and highefficiency
helical bevel
gearbox options
Application specific
customisation available
IP66 inverters available
Quality assurance is
integral to STIHL’s
production process for
its range of chainsaws and
as part of a recent upgrade,
STIHL worked with Matrox
Imaging to devise a fully
automated solution for visual
quality assessment in which
deep learning technology
was utilised.
The inspection that STIHL
sought to enhance focuses
on the production of gasoline
suction heads as a component
of a chainsaw. Each suction
head features four footbridges that
must be assessed independently after
the injection moulding, and before
each part proceeds to the next step
in the manufacturing process.
The inspection process of each
part involves looking at four distinct
footbridges, and the machine processes
60 parts per minute, so inspection takes
place at a rate of 240 images per minute.
To achieve this, STIHL’s new vision system
uses Matrox Design Assistant X vision
software running on a Matrox 4Sight GPm
vision controller, selected because of the
I/O capabilities, PROFINET connections,
and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) support.
The system also includes a PoE line-scan
Matrox Imaging has devised a system to inspect components
camera, a rotary table, an encoder, and
ultra-high intensity line lights (LL230
Series) from Advanced illumination.
With support from Matrox Imaging,
STIHL successfully navigated the
challenge of establishing a correct and
repeatable presentation of the footbridge
to facilitate taking images for training
the convolutional neural network (CNN).
The Matrox Design Assistant X’s
deep-learning-based classification
tools have had a positive outcome on
STIHL’s quality-assurance measures and
plans are already underway to develop
a second, similar system going forward.
T 00 1 514 822 6020
W www.matrox.com/imaging
MARLIN
Stainless
Tel. 01270 270022
lafertuk@lafert.com
www.marlinstainless.com
Handling, sortation and palletising of
cartons will be happening at -28deg C
Following an order for a lamb automation
system, Scott has been awarded a second
large contract by Alliance Group, this one
to design and build a carton handling,
sortation and palletising system that takes
place in a frozen environment (-28deg C).
The Alliance Group has awarded another contract
The new system will increase product
handling efficiencies by allowing more
flexible, high speed carton sortation
and management and the project
will utilise technology developed by
Scott Europe (Alvey) and deployed
with other European customers.
The company will also utilise equipment
from Savoye, a company that designs,
manufactures (in Europe and the US)
and integrates automated systems for
intralogistics, following the recent
signing of a global partnership
agreement between the firms.
T 01384 210278
W www.scottautomation.co.uk