The importance of control and verification in industrial manufacturing processes

Without a doubt, aut automation has been key to revolutionizing industrial processes but what happens if production is increased without a proper control and verification process? If there is no control over how products or serialized parts are being created and verified against the quality standards to which those products are expected to conform, chaos can ensue.

Optimizing production through automation and increasing the number of products produced is useless if what is produced is not of high quality. For this reason, if you want to be efficient and effective, automation must go hand in hand with control and verification.

Control and verification in an industrial process can be performed thanks to the presence of these components:.

• Sensors or artificial vision. They are responsible for collecting relevant data from the environment and the process. There are many types and depending on the product being manufactured or what needs to be obtained, there are those that measure temperature, humidity, flow, speed, pressure…
• Controllers. When the sensors detect or measure what is measured, they transmit this information to the controllers, which are responsible for processing and evaluating this data. Their function is to determine whether the data collected matches the parameters that have been previously set. If this is the case, the production process continues and if any anomaly is detected, it can be solved.
  
• User interface. The data collected is presented clearly and visually so that the operators in charge of supervising the control and verification station can have it conveniently at their fingertips.

The need to control and verify a production process in an industry can occur at different stages of this process. Sometimes it will be necessary to perform it in pre-production to control and verify that the material or raw material to be used is in the right condition to continue with the process. .

On other occasions, the control and verification phase should be carried out during production, to detect incorrect sizes, unsuitable colors, inappropriate temperature, excessive viscosity, etc..

Finally, control and verification in an automated industrial process can also be performed at the end. At this stage, it is verified whether the products arriving at the end of the process comply with the defined specifications..

Thanks to the control and verification processes, it can be guaranteed that the products follow predefined standards in terms of shape, size or quality. The industry that applies control and verification achieves minimum product discard and avoids wasting resources as much as possible.

The vast majority of industries that are committed to automating their production lines are well aware that they must incorporate control and verification stations in their production lines. From the automotive industry to the pharmaceuticals, they rely on control and verification to ensure that what they are mass-producing meets all requirements.

From checking whether the plasticity of the material used to make the bumpers is adequate, to checking the size of a given packaging or ensuring that the right amount of reagent is being poured. These are just a few of the many examples of the use of industrial control and verification stations.

The DEIMA engineering teamis specialized in the design of custom prototypesin order to efficiently solve any type of need our customers may have. For this reason, if you are interested in incorporating a control and verification station in your production process you should know that from DEIMA we can be your ally..

We will design the prototype, manufacture it and, if you wish, we can even start it up in your own facilities. Bet on DEIMA’s experience and know-how to achieve your production and commercial goals. .