"Enabling the Factory of the Future with Embedded Vision," a Presentation from National Instruments

Copyright © 2015 National Instruments 1

Andy Chang

12 May 2015

Enabling the Factory of the Future

with Embedded Vision


Who We Are

Industrial Machinery

and Control

Advanced

Research

RF and

Communication

Energy Transportation, Automotive

and Heavy Equipment

Structural and Physical

Test and Monitoring


4th Industrial Revolution

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“Progress in the 21st century will proceed at rates

1000 times greater than the 20th century.”

- Ray Kurzweil

Third

Industrial

Revolution

Fourth

Industrial

Revolution

Second

Industrial

Revolution

First

Industrial

Revolution

18th 19th 20th 21st

…

…


Status Quo for Manufacturing

PAST AS IS PAST AS IS

Shopfloor are not designed to

evolve easily

Large amount of manual

operations fully dependent

on workers


Factory of the Future: Factory-wide Online

Monitoring and Control

Things Sensors/Act

uators

Data Acquisition and

Control Systems IT Infrastructure

System on Module

Torque Sensor

Motor Drives

Single-Board RIO

Wired or

Wireless

Smart Tools Plant Node

Server Desktop

Network & PLM

RGB Camera

RFID

Switches

RFID

CompactRIO Manipulator RFID

Motor Drives

PWM

Smart Glasses

Th

e

Ed

ge

100,000 30,000 2,000 60 sites


Typical Vision Application


Acceptable Operating Zone

Operating Time

Machine Health Failure Predictive

Maintenance Preventative

Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance


400,000+ Hole Locations

1,000+ Tightening Tools

Increase Quality Assurance

Challenges in Manufacturing Assembly


Machine Vision and Impact

Visual Servoing


Fuselage Test


Factory of the Future


Human Embedded Vision


Things Sensors/Act

uators

Data Acquisition and

Control Systems IT Infrastructure

System on Module

Wired or

Wireless

Plant Node Server

Desktop

Network & PLM

RGB Camera

RFID

Switches

CompactRIO RFID

Motor Drives

PWM

Th

e

Ed

ge

Factory of the Future: Factory-wide Online

Monitoring and Control


Factory of the Future

Cyber-physical production systems

• Real-time vision information

from design to production

• “Smart” components lead by

vision

Human-centered enhancement

through

• Smart wearable devices

• Smart production robots

• Smart tools


• Developing Smart Tools for the Airbus Factory of the Future

http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-16246

• Vision Servoing with Reconfigurable I/O Technology

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-23549

• Machine Vision and Industrial Robotics


• Trend Watch and the Internet of Things

http://www.ni.com/trend-watch/

• Academic Research Grants

http://www.ni.com/research

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http://www.ni.com/research


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