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Abstract:
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Companies have faced the challenge of having short time spans for product
planning, development and production, while at the same time keeping up a high
product quality with a constant cost. This is especially the case for mass markets like
the automobile industry and mass customization. To provide efficiency and
optimization of time and cost in the quality inspection area, it is developed the 1-PIM
(Intelligent Product Inspection Manager), a solution that takes parts created in
different CAD (Computer Aided Design) software and generates an optimized
inspection planning to be run in different CMM (Coordinate Measurement
Machines).[ 14 ]
1-PIM fulfill this requirement through the use of DMIS (Dimensional
Measurement Interface Standard) script language, a standard for bi-directional
communication of inspection data between inspection equipment and a computer
system, which specifies, for instance, the format of a measurement sequence to
control the operation of dimensional measuring equipment.
After the operator has finished all the inspection plan, with features and
measurement devices selected, optimized paths to the probe, best strategies
chosen, it is possible to translate it to a language that will be interpretative by his
CMM.
The system takes all the information to generate a script file. The Coordinate
Measuring Machines that understand the standard are able to load these kind of file
to permit the user to see and execute the whole inspection plan. All what the
operator needs to do is to set the origin according to the same position defined in I-
PIM and then run the file in the measurement software of the machine. The whole
inspection plan is then automatically run and the measurement made. |
