Robotic Inspection for Casting & Forging Project Call
The ARM Institute has announced the availability of a new Project Call on Robotic Inspection for Casting & Forging. The ARM Institute is soliciting submissions that respond to specific needs of the manufacturing industry and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Cast and forged components lie at the heart of critical commercial and defense systems, providing a vital contribution to warfighter readiness for the United States. This problem is particularly exacerbated by the nature of legacy platforms, whose designs and processes were largely conceived, defined, and stored on paper. In tandem with the pervasive challenge of workforce availability, the challenges for the United States to produce low-volume cast and forged components pose a critical and enduring issue.
The Project Call centers on two primary objectives:
Objective One: Develop, integrate, and demonstrate an autonomous scalable dimensional and thermal inspection system for high-mix, low volume casting and/or forging processes
Objective Two: Develop requirements to expand this capability from manual relocation to autonomous mobile platform.
Any developed system should demonstrate the following:
Rapid in-process scanning of small, medium, and large parts under hot and ambient temperatures and be able to identify part discrepancies to allow for rework.
Perform detailed dimensional inspection of parts at hot and ambient temperatures and be able to identify part discrepancies to allow for rework.
Full details of the Project Call can be downloaded.
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