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We Make Manual Assembly Great Again
Ulixes GmbH is a unique SME from the Stuttgart area in Germany. It has a client relationship with the majority of the who is who of German Auto manufacturing in “Benz-town”, the official nickname of Stuttgart.
While working for decades on Robotic systems and Automation Systems, They came up a couple of years ago with their “Der Assistent”
Is a process, where a product is assembled by a worker by hand and/or by using additional tools. Manual Assembly has its dominance for:
Low Quantity – High Variance
complex assembly, where automatic assembly stations have less ROI
High Production Flexibility in terms of production lots
While things like Vision Systems, Torque Controlled screw Guns and other tools have made their way to the Manual Assembly workbench, the overall process hasn’t changed much for decades: A Work Instruction mostly in paper will tell the worker in a step by step approach with some pictures of how to put it together.
An “End of Line” or EOL test at the end of the assembly process will do a functionality check and quality control measures on the assembled product
Low Quantity – High Variance
complex assembly, where automatic assembly stations have less ROI
High Production Flexibility in terms of production lots
In a lot of cases, unskilled workers do the majority of the manual assembly tasks due to cost issues A lot of specific training efforts are necessary for each work process.
per work station, specific training is required per every switched worker due to a lot of different reason
( fluctuation, adding a shift, adding temp workforce for peak production, etc.)
No embedded quality control in the assembly process
Classic manual assembly use case with scan, assembly, screwing and scale
This video highlights the classic capabilities of the Ulixes Assitant:
Barcode scanner torque controlled screw gun scale for weight verification after the assembly process to assure that all parts are in ( in addition to visual inspection through integrated vision system).
Cobot + Assistent = symbiosis between human and machine
Loading parts from an automatic line and having them then inspected and add some manual assembly steps, is what this use case is all about.
The integrated Bluetooth-enabled caliber is used to do a quality check on the material. Guided
Augmented instructions give step by step advice to the worker and verification
The video starts with the verification of the parts barcode and loading the correct variant for the work flow.
The Assistant gives advices, how to place the valve block on the bench.
In this use case, the table top is removed, so a wood crate can be put in with a pallet check.
Step by step, the worker gets instructions, what articles to put where. The entire packaging process is verified.
Pictures of the packaging process can be stored from individual steps or at the end, to verify, how the articles got packed in , in case of later customer complaint or shipping damages.
For ergomic purposes, an additional screen is installed in this case to geive th specific instruction to the worker.
We have a full setup of an Ulixes “Der Assistant” test and show unit available in our headquarters in the Atlanta Metro.
We offer the following services
Send us your product and we generate a workflow for you. You wwill receive a video or live demonstration of it.
Make an appointment and visit our studio in Johns Creek, Ga for a live demonstration with all the different partner products, DigitalituM offers.