Samarbejde om AI-understøttet workflow til PCB inspektion
Siemens og NVIDIA vil forøge produktiviteten og forbedre kvaliteten ved at flytte forberedelsen af automatiseret optisk PCB-inspektion over i den virtuelle verden (in english).
Siemens has announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA to develop adaptive AI-powered manufacturing capabilities that combine industrial software, Siemens’ Digital Twin technology and NVIDIA Cosmos to accelerate production planning, inspection preparation and optimization.
The collaboration combines Siemens’ Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) and Process Preparation X with NVIDIA Cosmos to create a new AI-powered workflow for PCB inspection, helping electronics manufacturers prepare and optimize automated optical inspection (AOI) processes before physical production begins.
The solution is being demonstrated at Siemens Electronics Factory Erlangen, Siemens' Customer Zero for adaptive AI-powered production - with the goal of creating a highly adaptive factory that can rapidly introduce near daily changes (3 to 5 times a week) without disruption.
- By connecting the comprehensive Digital Twin to the shop floor and AI we are improving both line productivity and product quality. At the Erlangen factory, we're demonstrating how the deterministic nature of Siemens’ Digital Twin is the foundation for leveraging physics AI for preparing production, says Mark Hindsbo, executive vice president operations software, Siemens. “
- By leveraging a ‘virtual’ golden board, electronics manufacturers can change production dramatically quicker without taking the line out of production. This enables electronics manufacturers to respond more quickly to change and helps reach production readiness at scale and speed - while helping to reduce manual engineering effort, accelerate AOI readiness and improve manufacturing quality.
- Manufacturers shouldn’t have to wait for the first physical circuit board to start preparing inspection,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president, Physical AI Simulation at NVIDIA. “By combining Siemens’ industrial software and manufacturing expertise with NVIDIA Cosmos, we can generate synthetic images of good and defective boards to prepare inspection virtually - helping manufacturers bring new products into production faster.
Traditionally, introducing a new product or product variant requires a physical prototype before optical inspection processes can be prepared and trained for quality control.
The new approach moves more of that work into the virtual world. Teamcenter provides PCB design, bill of materials and component information while Process Preparation X validates, normalizes and assembles this information into a Digital Twin of the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA).
This provides the comprehensive product and manufacturing context needed to prepare inspection before the first physical board reaches the production line.
This Digital Twin of the 'perfect' reference board, often referred to as the 'golden board', is used with NVIDIA Cosmos to create a fully photorealistic virtual golden board along with synthetic photorealistic samples that represent both good and false conditions created during production.
Siemens uses NVIDIA Cosmos Data Factory to generate synthetic circuit-board defect images, enabling inspection-machine calibration before physical boards are produced.
The workflow then extends into production through an AI-supported secondary inspection capability. When an AOI system identifies a potential defect, the secondary inspection capability can help analyze the detected condition and determine whether it represents a real defect or a false call.
Together, these technologies are intended to create an end-to-end digital and AI-supported workflow spanning virtual AOI preparation, calibration and inspection support once production begins.
