Bearing Inspection for the Automotive Industry

Detecting subtle indicators of missing balls in a wheel bearing and tight spaces, and carrying out ball count inspection without contact disassembly are major challenges in traditional inspection systems.

The color and texture of bearings can blend in with other components in the machine design, making scratches, corrosion, and other defects and wear difficult to detect.

The capability of vision and sensor systems to accurately measure the width and thickness of bearings while still making acceptable allowances for dimensional tolerances can be challenging during wheel-bearing inspection.

Accurately checking for obstructions in hidden areas can be problematic. Without using the right inspection systems, small or concealed defects can prevent accurate inspection results.

AI vision systems support a range of wheel-bearing inspection applications due to their artificial intelligence imaging unit for simple programming. When the rule-based inspection isn’t the best fit, users can also incorporate AI tools for precision-based results.

Line Scan technology captures images one line at a time. This line-based algorithm capturing coupled with line scan cameras helps the Line Scan Series to produce high-resolution images even for small cylindrical targets like ball bearings.

With the capability to capture high-resolution images in as little as 0.6 seconds, our inline 3D inspection solution can capture accurate 2D and 3D image data, with the ability to run inspections on both simultaneously.

We understand that completing wheel bearing inspection for intricate components like bearings in a complex system of machines requires effort. The CV-X Series comes with intuitive vision system controls to ease those efforts.

Our 3D vision-guided robotics solutions for robot-assisted wheel bearing inspection tasks, which can be paired with different robots from all major manufacturers.