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

该项目的核心是有效地将制造过程的一部分数字化的挑战，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，因为该项目的目标是将一个主观的、基于工艺的活动通过适当的衡量标准转变为一个可量化的过程。一旦实现这一点，第二阶段的活动将把手工特别流程转移到半自动精加工流程，从而带来通过这种数字产品模型更有效地整合供应商和用户的能力，这比目前的制造方法更有效。从材料的角度来看，该项目的重要目的是使自然材料及其加工和检查具有可视的特性。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结合在一起，并支持来自华威大学WMG的基本技术和方法。其成果包括一家主要汽车零部件供应商的数字可定义产品制造质量和效率以及适用于下一代智能连接工厂的中小企业产品和服务的根本改善。

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.