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Vision system enables zero defects.

Publication: Test & Measurement World
Publication Date: 01-OCT-09 		Format: Online
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Article Excerpt
By Ann R. Thryft, Contributing Technical Editor

Schneider Electric's Osiswitch Compact line of limit switches are used in industrial automation and control equipment. From only 100 different components, the production line can create up to 2000 different product types, or "references," each identified by an industrial reference code. Each product is composed of around 20 parts selected from those 100 components, which include mechanical parts and circuit breakers.

Although switches that are made from several different product types can look identical on the outside, inside there are many different sets of components and many different configurations of those components. The Osiswitch Compact limit switches are only 30x70 mm, and their subassemblies must be checked before they are enclosed within a body.

"We have to check many small parts on a product," said Nicolas Charollais, marketing director for Schneider Electric. This is why, until recently, the company assembled...



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