Smart Seat-Manufacturing (SSM) – Digitally Automated Quality-Driven Finishing Process

该项目的核心挑战是有效地将制造过程的一部分数字化，即汽车座椅的视觉/感知质量控制和精加工过程。这是一个具有挑战性的领域，因为该项目旨在采取主观的基于工艺的活动，并通过适当的指标将其转变为可量化的过程。一旦实现了这一目标，第二阶段的活动将从手工流程迁移到半自动化，并最终实现全自动精加工流程，从而使供应商和用户能够通过数字产品模型进行整合，比目前的制造方法更有效。从材料的角度来看，该项目旨在实现天然材料及其加工和检验的视觉表征。该项目将总部设在英国的大型全球终端用户与创新的中小企业技术提供商联合起来，并从华威大学的WMG获得基础技术和方法。其成果包括为关键汽车零部件供应商大幅提高数字化可定义产品的制造质量和效率，以及适用于下一代智能互联工厂的中小企业产品和服务。

At the heart of this project is the challenge of effectively digitizing part of a manufacturing process namely, the process of visual/perceived quality control and finishing of automotive seats. This is a challenging area since the project aims to take a subjective craft-based activity and change it into a quantifiable process via suitable metrics. Once this is achieved, the second phase of activity will migrate the manual ad-hoc process to a semi, and ultimately fully-automated finishing process, bringing with this the ability to integrate suppliers and users via this digital product model much more effectively than is possible with the current manufacturing approach. From a materials perspective the project valuably aims to enable the visual characterization of natural materials and their processing and inspection. The project unites a large global end-user based in the UK with innovative SME technology providers and enabling basic technologies and methods from WMG at the University of Warwick. The outcomes include a radical improvement in digitally definable product manufacturing quality and efficiency for a key automotive component supplier and SME products and services applicable to the next generation of smart connected factories.