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VERHAERTINNOVATIONDAY – OCTOBER 12th, 2007
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3D Scanner: a Case Study
Frederik Wouters
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Agenda
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- Context & Application Brief
- From Idea to a new Business
- Risk controlled Development Approach
- Timing & Planning
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Context & Application Brief
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- Innovation initiated by Burke E. Porter Company
- Innovation ... sustaining profitability by creating competitive advantage(s)
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Context & Application Brief
- Burke E. Porter Company could have potential benefits by having its
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proprietary 3D scanning system.
GM: US6456372
Schenck: US6473978
Honda: US6836970
SUN electric: US5818574
Bridgestone: US5930881, US5930881
- Creating competitive advantage(s) Perceptron : US4745469, US4899218, US5600435, US5731870,
US6400451, US665771, US4647208
- Production of sensor unit
Fori : US5600435, US5731870, US5978077
- Calibration of sensor unit Siemens: DE2948573, US6532673, US6796035
- Exploiting patent(s) Mitsubishi : US6400451, US6657711
Dana : US5249364, US5249364
FORD: US5583797, US5583797, US5703796
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Wheel alignment parameters
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Basic measurement principle
Sensitive camera
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Range Precision Repeatability (2 sigma)
Toe +/- 10° +/- 0,5’ +/-0,1’
Camber +/- 10° +/- 1’ +/-0,1’
Caster 0°-10° +/- 3’ +/- 1’
SAI 0°-20° +/- 0,3° +/- 0,2°
Line diffractor
Laser projectors 2x
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Innovation level
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- A 3 year concurrent development timeframe
- Optical 6 months
- Algorithms 2 years
- Mechanical 6 months
- Software 1 year
- FPGA Code 3 months
- Processing electronics 3 months
- Triggering electronics 1.5 months
- Testing & debugging 1 year
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Multidisciplinary problems
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Algorithms repeatability
Optical aberrations Temperature
& robustness
RT Processing Serviceability
Software Resolve inbetween
Complexity grid
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Some Multidisciplinary Problems
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Multidisciplinary team
- Team discipline requirements
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- Optical
- Thermal
- Algorithms
- Mechanical & optomechanical design
- Electronical
- Software
- Manufacturing
- Service departement
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From idea to new business
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- IWT funding for Consortium
- Filed in April 2005
- O&O Project during 3 years
- Overall budget: 2.7 M€
- About 36% investment in sensor development
- Two fold valorisation path
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Open inovation requires custom agreement to enable successful valorisation
- Patent(s) owned by BEP
- BEP owes 5 year shared rights on all concepts
- Shared IP valorization in automotive between concept inventor and BEP
- Other domains for concept inventor
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From idea to new business
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- BEP:
- Sustaining revenue €5M, direct employement of 25.000 hours
- Increase of revenue with annual 10%
- Ie. 100 3D scanner per year
- VERHAERT
- Establish product business
- New development projects
- Enhance technology
- Address new applications
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Risk controlled Development Approach
Ideation & new opportunities creation
1
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Feasibility studies
Program / Project Management
2
- Analysis
- Technology scouting
- Preliminary concepts
- Budgetting & planning
3 Concept design
4 Analysis, simulation & demonstration
Detailed design & engineering
5
Prototyping
6
Industrialisation & supply chain selection / mgm
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- Analysis & Preliminar Concepts
- Technical analysis of specifications and constraints
- Generation of 2 concepts by Verhaert, 1 by Mecon
- Benchmarking of concepts
- Outcome
- Patent(s) to fuel ideation
- Freedom to operate
- Uniqueness of concept
- Theoretical benchmark
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- Breadboarding
- Quick validation of concept
- Feasibility
- Matlab Image processing toolbox
- Images generated with grid projection
- Early stage measurement - precision benchmark
- Outcome: Laser
- First algorithmes
- Precision information
Camera
Translation table
- Selection of concept
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- Concept
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- Elaboration of algorithms to proof potential precision versus range
- Outcome:
- Ways to proceed to:
- Increase precision
- Robustness
- Temperature compensation
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- Detailed design
- Optical design
- Optomechanical design
- Optical component selection and validation
- Compensation algoritmes
- Processing time optimisation
- Processing dimensioning
- Processing board selection
- FPGA code development
- Outcome
- Proof-of-technology
- Testing & Validation
- Patentability - Patent filing
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- Housing design
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- Selection of :
- Assembly means
- Production means
- Cost effective production means
- Strategy canvas
- Outcome:
- Design proposals
- Foam model
- Detailed design of housing
- Mockup
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Early customer feedback
- Sneak preview with lead users
- Prototyping for “SENSOR+TEST” in Nürnberg 05/07
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With thanks to ...
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