| December 2011 - Merry Christmas - Donation for Charity We wish all our business partners and friends a merry christmas and a happy new year 2012. We appreciate all the great collaborations we had in 2011 and are looking forward to some new challenges and assignments in upcoming 12 month. Like last year we will not send out any christmas gifts, insteed we like to donate for charity. The project is also supported by the radio station STAR FM. |
| October 2011 - New Office-Space in the USA The InSystems Automation, Inc. moved with its office, workshop and housing space to a new address in Washington, NC (600E 2st Street). We now work and live in a house, which offers a big double garage (this will be our workshop), a kitchen, restroom and office in the lower floor, as well as living-, bed- and bathrooms in the upper floor. Through the centralisation of office, work and living space we were able to considerably reduce our costs.
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| August 2011 - Optimisation of an adjustment toll for hand-brakes in the automobile industrie InSystems optimized a wireless adjustment tool in its construction and controlling for a big automobile manufacturer. The purpose was to update the tool concerning the mechanical requriements of the manufacturing process. Additonaly InSystems developed a software and an interface for measuring the adjacent forces. The tool is used for the exact adjustment of the basic drag force on the hand-brake during the manufacturing. The tool will be put on the hand-brake lever in the inside of the vehicle. It will then transfer the measured forces trough its wireless sensor to the remote station. The worker in back of the car is able to see the outcome of his adjustments directly on a screen in front of him. In fact he can see the effects of his work almost in realtime. Trough constructional changes the analog DMS Sensor has been made save against impacts. Furthermore the antenna is now inside the body and the holding fixture for the hand brake lever has been remodeled with a metal reinforcement at the plastic body. Additionaly the tool now comes with a batterie charging alarm-system.
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| July 2011 - Quality Control by Camera at a Plastic Injection Molding Manufacturer InSystems developed a solution to test plastic lids for correct type and orientation. There are 6 to 8 lids per second which come out of a vibration spiral conveyor. The lids are made for instant soup glasses. They lie on an assembly band and are being viewed at the bottom side by a camera beneath them. The camera tests for the right label and the right position of the label, as well as the correct positioning of the lid itself. It has to have its opening on the top. If a lid is, because of one or more of those criterias, identified as niO, the system will trigger the defective lid to the end of the buffer line and than remove it with compressed air. The biggest advantage for our customer is definitley a huge save of money. The new quality control system is able to remove exactly the defective lids and only the defective lids.
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| May 2011 - Website, Xing-Group and a new Info-Letter for WaProTek The research project WaProTek on which InSystems is integrated as a partner, just got its own website (www.waprotek.de). All informations about the projekt its outcomes can be read there. On Xing there opened a group called "WPS-Wandlungsfähige Produktionssysteme", in which relevant questions and themes may be discussed. InSystems Automation is a partner of the research project WaProTek, which develops process architecture that triggers transformation. The project is under guidance of the Institut für Fabrikanlagen und Logistik (IFA). The developed process architectures have the goal to enable organisations to react flexible and quick to the globally fast changing production needs. The german industry may create a sustainable strategic success-factor. |
| April 2011 - InSystems RoboCup Team is qualified for the World Championship The by InSystems supported Team FRT-A has qualified for World Championship in Istanbul! They finished second at the RoboCup German Open 2011 of the A LWL Secondary Soccer League. The 11th german RoboCup Junior Championship was held from March 31st until the 3rd of April 2011 at the fair in Magdeburg. Almost 200 students teams from 60 different locations in all over Germany participated in the event. Only 26 teams have been nominated for the World Championship in Istanbul. The FRT-A Team supported by InSystems started in two different leagues this year. In the league Soccer B they reached a very good 10th place. In the league Soccer A LWL Secondary they finished 2nd. Unfortunately on the first day the light sensors gave up, which robbed all chances on the title. However finally the team won all games instead of one and finshed with a score record of 67:11. |
| March 2011 - Measurement of Prestressing Steel For the incoming goods inspection of prestressed concrete manufacture InSystems developed a proof-system, which is able to measure the profile depth of the incoming charges and record them in a database. A minimal profile depth of the prestressed steel is important for the quality and the stability under load of the prestressed concrete. The profile on the prestressed steel is getting stamped with embossing rolls. In conclusion the profile depth must get proven over the whole length of the roll. The measurement system consits of a linear axis, on which a laser sensor is mounted. Additionaly there is a powered prism to insert the steel. The analog values of the laser sensor will be encoded by the software. At the moment of the movement of the sensor trough the linear axis, a two-dimensional profile with the length of the embossing rolls circumference. The software then determines the profile depth of every embossing. The measurement system works with a repeat accuracy of of +/- 0,005mm. |
| February 2011 - Presentation of ADAM (Autonomous Delivery And Manipulation) InSystems Automation demonstrates an intelligent AGV, the "ADAM Mobil Robot" from the canadian company RMT Robotics. This Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) is an autonom conveyor, which mapped the rooms and floors of our office building on a short test drive. Afterwards one may send the robot to various points in the building. It defines its route by itself and steers autonomacly around obstacles and persons. A software defines areas, which are not used at all or only from one vehicle or can not be changed. InSystems presented this AGV to its Berlin Customers und would like to integrate a small liquor in their production. |
| January 2011 - InSystems is now approved to be a trainee instructor for more professions Every company who would like to develop themselves and keep on growing, needs outstanding employees. And everybody who wants to have specialized staff has to do something for it. Since 2007, InSystems successfully educates interns in industrial sales, as well as office-clerks. This year we will, for the first time, also educate an intern in a technical professions. Because the IHK approved InSystems as an educator for two more occupations: IT Application Specialist and Mathematical-Mechanical Software Developer. Both job descriptions fit perfectly to our requirements of the SPS-Programming division in which we are greatly positioned and develop outstanding and innovative technical solutions. In addition to the interns InSystems will surely still employ trainees from Colleges and Universities. |
