Colloquium announcement
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Department Surface Technology and Tribology (MS3)
Master programme Industrial Design Engineering
As part of his / her master assignment
Brekel, J.S. van den (Joris)
will hold a speech entitled:
Advancing data collection and visualisation to increase insight into laser cladding at Van Halteren Technologies.
Date | 17-10-2024 |
Time | 13:00 |
Room | HT 700B |
Summary
This thesis was carried out at van Halteren Technologies Boxtel, where laser cladding errors during production are causing high costs. Two directions were found to reduce these costs. Direction one is about improving operator knowledge, training and procedures. The second direction is about improving data collection/visualisation and enhancing process insight. The second option was chosen as a subject for this thesis. The laser cladding process was analysed, and the key indicators of an exemplary process were found. It was noticed that a clear overview of all process data was missing and not displayed correctly to stakeholders. The same goes for data resulting from quality control. Data streams were coupled and stored in a new database to make this readily available. From here, informational (live) dashboards were built to display historical and live data. In the live dashboard, ‘traffic light ‘ indicators were included with logic behind them to communicate the process’s current state. This helped give van Halten more and faster insight into their process and quality data and is helping to spot quality-affecting factors quicker during production by the operator. After production, it helps the process engineer analyse data in a fraction of the time it took before, increasing the likelihood of finding causes of problems and quality variations.
Assessment committee |
chair Signature d.d. |
|
Prof.dr.ir. E. van der Heide Dr. D.T.A. Matthews Dr. D. Jafari Ir. R. Orbon |
(chair) (supervisor) (external member) (mentor from company) |