Electrical testing system for cab functionality verification

位于安大略省圭尔夫的日立建筑卡车制造有限公司正在扩大其在加拿大的业务，将其在圭尔夫的劳动力规模增加了一倍以上，并将其巨型自卸卡车的产量提高了近100%。2013年5月，他们在Guelph工厂新开了一家面积为16.69万平方英尺、耗资3200万美元的扩建工厂。该公司专门为采矿和建筑行业制造卡车--卡车如此之大，其中许多都是零碎地运往客户手中。这些大型而复杂的机器组装起来非常耗时和昂贵。如果在组装后发现错误，通常拆卸和调试该问题的成本非常高，从而导致生产延迟，给公司造成经济损失。如果卡车的各个部件和/或子组件能够在最终安装之前进行验证，这一成本可能会很高 减少了。 日立要求圭尔夫大学机器人研究所的研究人员为他们的下一代卡车驾驶室开发一种测试系统。凭借Robotics Institute在电气系统、系统设计和人机界面(HMI)方面的知识，该团队可以提供有效的测试系统，以确保正在生产的卡车驾驶室在安装前正常运行。

Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing Ltd. in Guelph, Ontario, is expanding its Canadian operation by more than doubling the size of its work force in Guelph, and boosting its output capacity of giant dump trucks by almost 100 per cent. In May 2013, they opened a new 166,900-sq.-ft., $32-million expansion at its Guelph facility. The company specializes in building trucks for the mining and construction industry - trucks that are so big, many of them are shipped to clients in pieces. These large and complex machines are very time consuming and expensive to assemble. If an error is found post-assembly, it is normally very costly to tear down and debug the issue leading to delays in production resulting in financial loss to the company. If the individual components and/or sub-assembly of the truck can be verified before final installation, this cost could be greatly reduced. Hitachi has asked researchers at the Robotics Institute at the University of Guelph to develop a testing system for their next generation truck cab. With the Robotics Institutes knowledge of electrical systems, systems design, and human machine interfaces (HMIs), the group can deliver an effective testing system to ensure that the truck cabs being produced are operating correctly prior to installation.