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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2018
Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik Gmbh, Oberkochen, DE;
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, Llc, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Gleiton Luiz Damoulis, Neu-Ulm, DE;
Marcin B. Bauza, Plymouth, MN (US);
Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, Oberkochen, DE;
Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLC, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
An automobile manufacturing plant for manufacturing automobiles has a series of manufacturing sites including a part forming shop, a body shop, a paint shop and an assembly shop. Each manufacturing site is associated with a respective inspection site. The respective inspection sites provide inspection data representing at least one of dimensional characteristics, shape characteristics or surface characteristics of the car body parts, the car body, the painted car body and the car-on-wheels produced in the series of manufacturing sites. The inspection data from the plurality of inspection sites is correlated in a common data base server. Inspection sites at a later stage of the manufacturing process can use inspection data from previous stages and automatically decide whether or not a car body part, the car body, the painted car body or the car-on-wheels has to be reworked.