Summary:

In Automotive & Cable Manufacturing Industry Cable Connectivity & Crimping is a challenging task, it required reliable and efficient solution, in order to test strength and other crimping factors it need good testing solution.

Solution:

This system sets a camera on the cable feeding route in an automatic crimping machine and inspects all crimped terminals. Without stopping feeding, you can capture clear images with a high shutter speed camera in the feeding speed.

This system can detect those defects by using images.

Insulation barrel errors
One strand out
Low conductor
High insulation
Seal insert errors (seal positions, cut seal, reversed insert, etc.)

The software is designed exclusively for inspecting crimped terminals. Therefore, even operators who are not accustomed to the image processing software can also operate it easily. For example, set the frames on measurement parts in an image captured by a camera. If several good samples are learned in the teach-in mode, you can begin to perform the inspection soon.
Features:

• The high shutter speed camera is set on the cable route in the automatic crimping machine. The space-saving optical system is not influenced by external light noise.
• It inspects stripped wires on the forward path with an additional LED light and crimped terminals on the return path.
• It is designed to learn up to 300 good samples. The unique averaging process removes small variations among good samples to detect only defects.
• Nominal Values and the Tolerance values will be provided by the user or can be read based upon the model number selected.
• Based on the Actual Values and they being within tolerance limits, results shall be either pass or fail.

Application software will measure different dimensions and provide report as per the customer requirements. This Automated Test System is a complete inhouse solution developed with National Instruments Hardware and Software.