The issue at hand: In a kitting set-up, a robot compiles an assortment of different parts, picked directly from the supplier’s pallets, into differing trays. A robot-mounted 2D camera was used to identify the required parts, and to pick and place them.
However, as soon as the positioning of the parts would vary – e.g. if a palette was slightly tilted, its contents were even slightly shifted or a supplier maybe changed their way of packing the parts – the set-up would run into problems:
“We simply had far too much downtime and engineering effort in the original set-up, and the cycle time wasn’t great either,” Hansen recalls. “With Roboception’s vision solution, we were able to add a third dimension into our process, making it significantly more robust and more flexible at the same time.”