ShowMe - Integrated Installation Assistant in Engine Production

The “ShowMe” develops the future assembly workplace. The goal of ShowMe is to help the workers as efficiently as possible at what they are doing. To achieve this, ShowMe combines sensors, object recognition algorithms and metaheuristic optimization to allow a realtime-detection of the workpiece’s assembly state. This automatic recognition allows for a variety of innovation, which are part of
ShowMe:

·An inline-quality assurance continuously checks if there are deviations between
the target/actual state of the parts and shows the difference immediately.
(“Zero-defect” production).

·The automatic state recognition enables a visualization of the next possible
assembly tasks. This help leads to less mental stress which in turn leads to a lower
number of mistakes.

·ShowMe can observe and analyze chosen assembly sequences, and can calculate
new, optimized sequences and provide these calculations to the workers: the
system learns from the workers, which leads to a continual improvement.

·Recognized assembly states are visualized in real time via Augmented Reality,
which leads to an immediate quality feedback loop. The workers can immediately
repair the problem.

By using ShowMe, the error rate for assembly rate drops, which leads to savings in follow-up processes. Simultaneously, the assembly process optimizes itself: the worker’s knowledge is aggregated and efficiently distributed, which leads to continuously improvements in efficiency and error reduction.