With the help of SWAP-IT, industrial manufacturing processes become more flexible, efficient and cost-effective, here high-precision processing of mirrors using the surface inspection sensor developed in the Imaging and Sensing department goSURFmsfr.
Efficient and scalable inspection using phase measurement, deflectometry and gradient-based surface reconstruction. Use in the production of high-precision mirrors and optics.
The surface inspection sensor developed in the Imaging and Sensing department enables the inspection of flat and free-form optics of different dimensions.
As a robot-mounted system, a fully automated scan is carried out, which evaluates and displays images of the surface with live feedback.
The interfaces for integration into your own software environments are included.
Other applications of the surface inspection sensor include the monitoring of processing traces, quality control and defect detection, and the inspection of smartphone displays.
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF have found a new way to produce high-precision components such as mirror optics in a particularly efficient and scalable way – while at the same time maintaining the highest quality and low costs. To do this, they use a new type of production architecture: SWAP-IT. This is being developed as part of the Fraunhofer flagship project SWAP with the aim of making industrial manufacturing processes in the factory of the future more flexible, efficient and cost-effective.
Video about the use case "precision component production" in the SWAP lead project with the developed surface inspection sensor goSURFmsfr
"SWAP – Hierarchical swarms as production architecture with optimized utilisation" "SWAP – Hierarchical swarms as production architecture with optimized utilisation" © Fraunhofer IOF
Further information on the Fraunhofer flagship project SWAP can be found on the project website: Fraunhofer lead project SWAP
Please also note the accompanying Press Release - High-precision mirror production accurate to the nanometer with 30% less production time.
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