Gasgoo Munich- RoboSense said on November 4 that it had commissioned what it describes as the world's first fully automated digital LiDAR production line. Located at the Honghualing manufacturing site in Shenzhen's Nanshan district, the line requires six workers and has annual capacity for 500,000 units.
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Key Takeaways
·The line uses more than 100 automated machines across over 70 processes, including precision assembly, dispensing, active optical alignment, calibration, testing and packaging. RoboSense reports an overall automation rate of 99%.
·The company says the digital production-management system provides complete process traceability, while automated inspection covers 98% of production.
·Each LiDAR unit undergoes aging, calibration and complete-system performance tests, with more than 3,640 inspection criteria covering optical, electrical, mechanical, acoustic and functional-safety aspects.
·The RoboSense MARS intelligent manufacturing base currently operates more than 22 automated lines and produces one digital LiDAR unit every eight seconds on average, according to the company. Its planned annual capacity is 4 million units.
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Production and technology
RoboSense said the Shenzhen location brings technology development, precision manufacturing and customer applications into closer proximity, drawing on supply-chain resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Shenzhen's robotics cluster. The facility is intended to support automated, large-scale production of LiDAR sensors for a range of robotics applications.
The company's production system integrates its in-house chips and digital product platform with product development, precision manufacturing and volume delivery.
Production capacity
RoboSense said the new line increases its capacity for volume deliveries.
The line will support RoboSense's plan to build annual digital LiDAR production capacity of 4 million units.
