Customer Profile

Industry: Automotive (Tier 1) | Headquarters: USA | Employees: 25,000

This Tier 1 automotive parts supplier produces the highest quality products and systems for the automotive industry. With our extensive plastics, metals, lighting and mechanical assemblies experience, we persistently strive for continuous improvement and on-time delivery of defect-free products.

Challenge

A Tier 1 automotive parts manufacturer could not detect critical issues on injected-molded plastic components that could lead impact seal quality during welding.

Solution

Eigen designed a vision solution that combined thermal and optical camera to capture images that could be used to train an inspection models to make defects visible. Using data and inspection records generated by Eigen’s OneView software, the team can analyze trends and identify process issues/drift that caused defects.

Cameras:
Flir A35
Allied Vision Mako G319 (Monochrome, 3.2MP)

Benefits

Multi-Defect Inspection

Standardized Part Records

Decrease in Defective Parts Shipped