Audi has exposed exactly how it plans to enhance the perceived develop high quality of its cars and trucks in the near future, with new, technologically advanced high quality assurance systems.
At the heart of this is the online Master Jig. It’s a new digitalised jig system currently being evaluated by Audi’s high quality assurance team at the firm’s headquarters in Ingolstadt.
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Alongside the traditional master jigs utilized by Audi’s technicians to inspect the accuracy of surfaces as well as the high quality of shut lines, this new system – making utilize of a huge photometric measuring cell – has been introduced.
Housed within a area approximately the size of a double garage, two robots capable of twisting as well as turning on eight axes are armed with 16 megapixel high-resolution optical sensors. These sensors can digitally capture, reproduce as well as accurately map the surfaces of an A4 sized cars and truck in about four hours, compared to the 48-hour digitalisation process of the previous jig system.
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The sensors catch as much as 20 million measurement points to map an precise surface. This compares to the 6,000 points created by the tactile measurement procedures previously used.
Audi declares that one of the most significant benefits of a sensor system such as this is that measurements can be taken without touching the materials, so softer elements such as seals as well as seats can be determined much more accurately.
Digitalisation likewise implies that the firm’s high quality checkers can begin working much earlier in the advancement process of a new model. Under previous methods, tasks such as inspecting shut lines would begin ten months before series production. Now, technicians can begin work on tasks such as this around two as well as a half years before production begins, on the basis of extremely precise 3D models. As such, Audi declares bodywork surface high quality will enhance on its next-generation cars.
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Alongside the online Master Jig, Audi has ‘electrified’ the jig utilized to mark interior in shape as well as surface too, in purchase to make it much more appropriate for progressively digital cabins. The new electrified interior jig implies technicians can assess interior high quality in higher detail ahead of production, with all electronic interior functions offered to test at a much earlier stage in the advancement process.
Audi states that the new electrified interior jig has been put to utilize on the next-generation A6 saloon, which the firm states is due in 2018.
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