2024/08/26
Using AI and optical microscopy to improve manufacturing processes for aluminium vehicle parts
Over the past 3 years, a team of experts from the NRC’s Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre has been working on an innovative project to develop a new method that uses AI to evaluate the characteristics of aluminium components critical to vehicle manufacturing. The project is being led by the NRC’s METALTec industrial R&D group under the Advanced Manufacturing program, with funding from Quebec’s centre for aluminum R&D, CQRDA (in French only), and through the contribution of METALTec industrial participants.
The goal of this project is to address growing challenges in the vehicle manufacturing industry that, over the last decades, have started a digital transformation leading to the digitization of manufacturing, known as Industry 4.0. Businesses are looking to improve the efficiency and decrease the costs of their manufacturing processes through the use of autonomous technologies such as robotics, AI and machine-learning.