Inspection of Vacuum Interrupters

Surface Inspection

Maddox AI enables the reliable and automated identification of surface defects such as soiling, metallic abrasion, impact marks, scratches, chipping on ceramics and many other defects.

product

Vacuum interrupters

industry

Energy Technology

total savings year

60 - 80 k €

Kundenanforderung

Our customer produces over 1,000 switch tubes every day, which are inspected 100% manually by at least one specialist per shift. Due to the intricate defects (flaking, scratches, contamination) that have to be found on a complex component geometry with copper and ceramic surfaces, magnifying glasses and special lighting were used in the manual inspection. Despite these tools, the inspection accuracy varied considerably between employees per shift.
With the introduction of Maddox AI, inspection has been fully automated so that defective components are detected accurately and reliably. In particular, components are now inspected consistently across all shifts and according to clearly defined defect criteria.

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before

Previous Inspection System

after

With Maddox AI

Quality control was carried out completely manually, which was very time-consuming and costly.

The quality check is now fully automated, which has significantly reduced the manual effort and considerably increased the efficiency of the checks.

As the test results were not recorded digitally, there was no structured root cause analysis for faulty (NOK) parts.

Thanks to the digitalized inspection process, the reject rate in production has been reduced.

On average, only 20% of the rejected parts were really faulty. 80% of the parts could still be sold without any problems / with minor reworking.

Thanks to the increased precision of the Maddox AI inspection system, the pseudo reject rate has been reduced by around 75%, virtually eliminating re-inspections and avoiding unnecessary costs.

100%

Digitized Analyses

75 %

Less Pseudo Scrap

15 Monate

Investment Payback Period