CAM-224
The tool never reached one of the points
Tightening station. The robotic nutrunner has come down, but it has stopped off target: the tip isn’t over the hole it was meant for. On the pillar, marked in the image, is the point that wasn’t tightened. Two operators watch the body from the aisle and a third waits by the rail. To the right, the cart with the station’s bolts. IRIS follows the tool point by point and sees which one it skipped.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognizes in this scene
- tightening point the tool never touched
- robotic nutrunner lowered off target
- operator standing in front of the station
- operator watching the body from the aisle
- cart of bolts for the station
- body shell at the tightening station
What this camera measures
An alert says something’s happening. The reading says how much.
- 8Points in the station sequence
- 7Points the tool reached
- 1 min 50 sLength of the cycle
- 3People in frame
- 11:26Time of the cycle
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client’s measurement.
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
the tool finishes the cycle without having reached a point in the sequence
Then
- alert the station with the station, the skipped point and the time
- save the video of the whole tightening cycle
- attach the alert to the body shell that was at the station
The instruction that set it up«Tell me when the tool does not reach one of the points in the sequence.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
Afternoon shift at the tightening station: the operator watches the nutrunner come down and takes the point as done. The plant system receives the tightenings the tool did make, and the point it never went into shows up in no data at all: a tightening that doesn’t happen generates no record. The end-of-line checker finds it three hours later, twenty bodies down the line, or nobody finds it until the car comes back to a workshop. With the camera the alert comes up at the station, with the image of the tip out of place and the time. The unit doesn’t move on to the next station one tightening short with nobody knowing.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS measure tightening torque?
No, and that’s the whole reason this camera exists. Torque comes from the connected tool, which is what measures the force; a camera can’t see it. What IRIS sees is whether the tool reached the point or stopped short of it. And that’s the difference: a point the tool never entered produces no torque data at all, which is why nothing flags it anywhere.
What’s the camera for if there’s already a connected tool?
To cover exactly what the tool can’t report. The nutrunner reports the tightenings it made; it doesn’t report the ones it didn’t, because for the tool they never existed. IRIS watches the whole cycle, counts the points the tool reached and flags it when one is missing, with the footage of the cycle and the exact minute. Together the two sources close the gap.
Does IRIS stop the station when a tightening is missing?
No. IRIS doesn’t act on any machine and stops nothing. It sends the alert with the image and the time to whoever runs the line, and that person decides what happens: redo the tightening at the post, pull the unit aside or let it through. What deserves a stop and what doesn’t is written by the plant, not by the camera.
Other cameras
Demo · IRIS at work
A new case each time. Always the same screen.
It plays by itself and shows one case from start to finish. It’s a summary: the real screen has far more functions than fit in this box.
- The rule gets built
- It goes to every camera
- Published, it watches alone
- And then it fires
Next step
How long does it take to find a hand played two hours ago?
12 cases: 9 raise an alert when something happens and 3 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
What does a mall see beyond the visitor count?
12 cases: 4 raise an alert when something happens and 8 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
And the best part
What happens outside the framedoesn’t exist for IRIS. No camera sees the whole world.
So the first thing we do is check what each camera covers and write it down: from here you can understand this, and not that. A dull hour that saves a lot of misunderstandings.
Tell us your problem and we’ll say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
A person answers, the same working day.