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Intelliview is Atom's solution for materials digitising, automatic contour recognition and quality
areas marking.
These operations are needed in some kind
of production, in particular when cutting materials with irregular contours, in
non-rectangular shape or materials having defects and different quality areas.
It is of course possible to opt for an "in-line" nesting, performed on the
cutting table just before cutting but several factors must be taken into account
to select the most efficient production organisation, maximising the cutting
machines production and leveraging operators' experience.
Precision, reliability, ease of use and
integration with Atom automatic cutting systems turn Intelliview into a perfect
complement to a full featured automatic cutting system.
By using these devices it is possible to
separate material acquisition, nesting and cutting phases, allowing thus to plan
more flexibly the production.
The production process is divided into 3
main stages, which can be carried on in different places and it is possible to
introduce a delay between each step if needed.
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Material digitising and defects/quality areas marking:
an operator can collect data from several
material batches, data is available to the automatic nesting system at once.
Usually skilled operators are needed in this stage because quality marking is
not a trivial task and several production-related variables must be properly
weighted through operator's experience. This separation of production steps
allow the experienced operator's time to be allocated on this critical phase,
without wasting time into less qualified activities.
Digitising involves automatic material contour recognition (performed
by the software, which analyses the digital image provided by the installed
camera) and the defects and quality areas marking.
The marking is done by using a special optical mouse and working directly on
the material allowing thus to achieve maximum precision and efficiency. The
software of the Intelliview guides the operator providing clear menu projected
on the material and activated through the optical mouse. This system is
carefully designed with ease of use and operation speed in mind.
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Automatic nesting: the
advanced nesting software grants
high yields and can meet complex user-defined production constraints.
The nesting can be either "traditional", that is calculated on a PC installed
at customer's premises, or
web-based thanks to the remote nesting services provided by CUTWEB.
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Automatic cutting: accordingly
with production schedule it is possible to load on the machines the orders to
be cut, the machine will cut the previously calculated layouts and will
request to the operator the proper materials. This stage can be easily handled
by inexperienced operators since they just have to deploy the proper material,
start the cutting then collect and sort the cut parts.
By splitting of the production flow into
different stages you can organise more flexibly and freely your resources.
Moreover thanks to the
web-based automatic nesting provided by CUTWEB it is possible to
organise in really original (and hopefully more efficient) ways the supply and
production chain, to redesign the boundaries of the activity and improve
relationships with customers, suppliers and subcontractors. For a deeper insight
of this topic we suggest an article about
supply chain redesign and about the
creation of a virtual community involving the producer of a material, the
converters and their customers.
Atom proposes 3 different Intelliview lines, designed to support different needs:
| Intelliview |
Model |
Size (cm) |
Description |
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1616 |
166 x 160 |
Device to acquire hides shape and defects. It is used together with
an external automatic nesting workstation for
automatic layout calculation. The produced layouts will be cut by an
oscillating-knife table or by a
Waterjet machine. |
| 2016 |
200 x 160 |
| 3016 |
300 x 160 |
| Intelliview Light |
Model |
Size (cm) |
Description |
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1510 |
100 x 150 |
Off-line nesting device for
natural materials. The nesting can be either interactive or automatic
(digital camera on the cutting machine required). The resulting layout will be
cut by an
oscillating-knife table. |
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