SmartSpace Assembly

Tool Control – Digital Tethers

Increasingly manufacturers are using wireless assembly devices to reduce the safety and quality limitations of mechanically tethered tools, such as cables causing trip hazards and marring paint or finishes on products.

Ubisense controls the operation of wireless tools by creating a digital tether between the device and workstation.

• Control wireless tool operation in workstations without tethers
• Easily add new wireless tools without additional infrastructure

Bolt-level accuracy for critical fastenings

Ubisense ultra-wideband sensors and the ART Verpose® vision system can locate assembly tools to within millimeters, enabling bolt-level accuracy. By precisely tracking tool position and orientation, assembly devices can distinguish between adjacent fasteners to ensure the correct tightening sequence is followed for critical operations.

• Control tightening sequence and torque settings
• Automatic digital audit of completed fasteners
• Configure multiple tool zones on the same product
• Enable multiple tightening sequences on the same line
• Corrects for poor lighting and recessed fastenings

Automatically Match Tools to Products

The same location technology for wireless tool operation can also track products on the assembly line, enabling automatic identification of individual product variants and matching to the correct tool operation.

• Switch from mechanical to software process triggers; add multiple and variable triggers at no extra cost
• Eliminate wasted time from manual product identification on the assembly line
• Increase quality and error proof tasks by controlling the activation and settings of wireless tools

Software Defined Workstations

Completely remove the constraints of fixed TAKT workstations by defining infinitely variable and dynamic work zones in software.

Produce multiple product variations on the same line, eliminate idle time waiting for the next product, and complete overrunning tasks without the risk of line stoppages.

• Variable length workstations on the same physical line based on product variant
• Introduce new product lines without expensive line reconfiguration
• Temporarily extend workstations to complete overrunning tasks or allow work ahead on the next product
• Create partially overlapping workstations to maximize the use of space
• Allow online re-work that is controlled and tracked