Objectives:
The final strategic industrial objectivesof the project PRO2CONTROL
are to aim towards
zero defects at the customer’s side and to decrease in at least 25% the scraps
of
manufacture, together with improving the worker condition, specially avoiding the manual
quality control tasks.
Economic objectives are to decrease the manufacturing costs of at least 5% at the
supplier which already use methods of surveillance of the press, and until 20% at those that
use only manual methods by minimizing or eliminating costs due to the manual sorting, the
costs of premature wear or cracking of tools and the costs of return and customers’ scrap.
Safety and social objectives are to improve the worker safety and condition by avoiding him to
operate directly on the machine and by monitoring the process status continuously. The worker’s
work will then be pointed, after training, towards more developing tasks which will be moreover
partly tasks connected to the control (management and maintenance of the control equipments).
Technological objectives are the development of the monitoring and
control systems and methods needed to get the “zero defect” in blanking and drawing of small size parts, either in
real-time or in masked-time. This will allow an immediate diagnosis of the quality of the part, in
order to do a unit and global production control.