Machinery Update | March / April 2021
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Hygienic drive<br />
solutions to suit<br />
YOU!<br />
38 MACHINERY UPDATE MARCH/APRIL <strong>2021</strong> www.machineryupdate.co.uk<br />
Installation News<br />
Quality of chainsaw<br />
is ‘seen’ to be great<br />
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Hose-down tolerant<br />
(tested to IP69K)<br />
Hygienic design and<br />
Clean-In-Place<br />
compatible<br />
No waste catchment<br />
areas and no flaking<br />
paint<br />
Worm and highefficiency<br />
helical bevel<br />
gearbox options<br />
Application specific<br />
customisation available<br />
IP66 inverters available<br />
Quality assurance is<br />
integral to STIHL’s<br />
production process for<br />
its range of chainsaws and<br />
as part of a recent upgrade,<br />
STIHL worked with Matrox<br />
Imaging to devise a fully<br />
automated solution for visual<br />
quality assessment in which<br />
deep learning technology<br />
was utilised.<br />
The inspection that STIHL<br />
sought to enhance focuses<br />
on the production of gasoline<br />
suction heads as a component<br />
of a chainsaw. Each suction<br />
head features four footbridges that<br />
must be assessed independently after<br />
the injection moulding, and before<br />
each part proceeds to the next step<br />
in the manufacturing process.<br />
The inspection process of each<br />
part involves looking at four distinct<br />
footbridges, and the machine processes<br />
60 parts per minute, so inspection takes<br />
place at a rate of 240 images per minute.<br />
To achieve this, STIHL’s new vision system<br />
uses Matrox Design Assistant X vision<br />
software running on a Matrox 4Sight GPm<br />
vision controller, selected because of the<br />
I/O capabilities, PROFINET connections,<br />
and Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) support.<br />
The system also includes a PoE line-scan<br />
Matrox Imaging has devised a system to inspect components<br />
camera, a rotary table, an encoder, and<br />
ultra-high intensity line lights (LL230<br />
Series) from Advanced illumination.<br />
With support from Matrox Imaging,<br />
STIHL successfully navigated the<br />
challenge of establishing a correct and<br />
repeatable presentation of the footbridge<br />
to facilitate taking images for training<br />
the convolutional neural network (CNN).<br />
The Matrox Design Assistant X’s<br />
deep-learning-based classification<br />
tools have had a positive outcome on<br />
STIHL’s quality-assurance measures and<br />
plans are already underway to develop<br />
a second, similar system going forward.<br />
T 00 1 514 822 6020<br />
W www.matrox.com/imaging<br />
MARLIN<br />
Stainless<br />
Tel. 01270 270022<br />
lafertuk@lafert.com<br />
www.marlinstainless.com<br />
Handling, sortation and palletising of<br />
cartons will be happening at -28deg C<br />
Following an order for a lamb automation<br />
system, Scott has been awarded a second<br />
large contract by Alliance Group, this one<br />
to design and build a carton handling,<br />
sortation and palletising system that takes<br />
place in a frozen environment (-28deg C).<br />
The Alliance Group has awarded another contract<br />
The new system will increase product<br />
handling efficiencies by allowing more<br />
flexible, high speed carton sortation<br />
and management and the project<br />
will utilise technology developed by<br />
Scott Europe (Alvey) and deployed<br />
with other European customers.<br />
The company will also utilise equipment<br />
from Savoye, a company that designs,<br />
manufactures (in Europe and the US)<br />
and integrates automated systems for<br />
intralogistics, following the recent<br />
signing of a global partnership<br />
agreement between the firms.<br />
T 01384 210278<br />
W www.scottautomation.co.uk