Fastener Inspection System

Ensuring rivet and fastener quality is one of the most critical factors in producing high quality, consistent fastening and assembly joints. By incorporating state-of-the-art CURE® technology (Concurrent Universal Recognition Engine memory processing architecture), FIS, like the recently introduced Weld Tip Inspection System, provides an effective way to implement solutions, providing critical information to assembly engineers and business/plant managers.

The new FIS provides real-time process monitoring and control to prevent face diameters and appearance from reaching unacceptable ranges. Simple to set up and use, the system is trained on the correct data signature. This signature is then combined with the visual inspection data from an industry standard vision system using custom crack detection image processing algorithms. The fusion of these two data streams allows the system to determine a rivet or fasteners condition both structurally and cosmetically.

The CURE engine also allows communication between typically disparate data types, i.e. images and force/distance data, affording human-like inspection capabilities for subjective applications with machine speed and accuracy. A standard option on most Orbitform machines, FIS will also interface with many other systems.

FIS offers potential cost savings and cost avoidance including:

• Cost savings from downtime reduction and labor costs associated with
non-optimized rivet and fastener quality management.
• Cost avoidance when FIS acts as a “constant set of eyes” on the assembly process.

Increase your process intelligence, decrease your risk, and convert data into actionable information with FIS - health insurance for cracked joints!