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Cyril Hogard, Plant Manager, Continental Automotive Spain
Universal Robots Powers Industry 4.0
Continental Automotive Spain has installed six
Universal Robots — with more projects underway
—to handle printed circuit boards and components
in its smart factory. Industry 4.0 processes have
cut costs and improved productivity, reducing
changeover times by 50% and providing an
estimated ROI of just 24 months.
Easy programming with no prior experience
Operator can safely enter work cell
REDUCTION
IN CHANGEOVER TIME
50%
metal, for example -- it is again in part reflected
and in part transmitted. This echo will become
one pixel in the acoustic image.
The outcome is very different if the ultrasound
strikes the interface between the solid it is
traveling through and a gas such as air. A solid-air interface marks a de-lamination, void, crack,
or other gap. The properties of the two materials
at this interface differ so strongly that virtually
all of the ultrasound is reflected back to the
transducer as a high-amplitude echo. None of
the ultrasound travels beyond the non-bond or
other gap; defects that lie directly below this
location will not be imaged by ultrasound pulsed
into this side of the sample.
The vertical dimension of the gap is relatively
unimportant for acoustic imaging. As long as
the air or other gain in the gap has a vertical
dimension of a fraction of a micron, reflection is
still essentially 100 percent. An extremely thin
gap that might grow in area during use can thus
be discovered early.
The completed acoustic image will show the
entire area of the sample. Gap-type defects of
any vertical extent are typically bright white as
a result of their high reflectivity; reflections from
Figure 2: Ceramic chip capacitors such as these have large numbers of alternating dielectric and
electrode layers.
