Sheet Metal Welding

"I got an invitation to a Scorpion seminar in Karlshamn, but couldn't attend, the next day I called Tordivel Sweden - In two weeks we were building a control system", says Hans Rasmusson, ITE Fabriks AB.

ITE Fabriks AB in Olofström, Sweden produces punched, stamped and welded products to the Swedish automotive industry. Having their own punch and stamp tool construction and development and a very modern machine park, they have a very good reputation in Olofström, the swedish centre of the sheet metal punching and stamping industry.

Within the car industry there is a zero defect policy. While profit margins are shrinking, requirements on production volume quality and delivery keep increasing. The automotive industry is continuously demanding lower prices, correct quality and stable deliveries. ITE Fabriks has very high quality requirements and we are constantly focusing on quality issues.

"Our customers require the production to be documented down to the smallest detail. We have decided to introduce vision systems to guarantee a stable and correct quality and to remove working tasks with risk of labour injury", says Hans Rasmusson.

"One of our customers demanded a secure production of four welded products. The customer required a quality control including documentation of controlled details. Correct details should be marked with week and year, defects should be sorted out. Earlier we have made control jigs at high cost with low flexibility. Often we have ended up with one control jig for each detail. In this case we could with only simple mechanics, six FireWire cameras and the Scorpion Vision Software make four control profiles - one for each product model. I did not believe it when Per from Tordivel installed six unibrain cameras in thirty minutes and directly got the images we needed. I took a bet with my son that the system should function. And I won the bet !",comments Hans Rasmusson.

"We bought Tordivel's Scorpion Starter Kit (a packet of the Scorpion Enterprise software, camera and a two days course) for a quick start up. It is important for us to have knowledge and control of our own systems. With support from the Tordivel department Scorpion Vision Solutions we could soon make the advanced control system. We were responsible for the mechanics and Tordivel for the vision system. Scorpion Vision Software is now one of our standard tools for solving automation tasks in our production. Both the flexibility on camera choice (Scorpion has full support of digital USB and FireWire cameras) and the possibility to choose between several product variants at an acceptable price level, make Scorpion Vision Software our choice for the future", says Hans Rasmusson.