How to Overcome Inspection Challenges in Automotive Assembly Applications using SOLIDWORKS Inspections
Revanth S M
September 24, 2019
Automotive Assembly Plants monitor the quality process continuously during the
SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION
Create inspection documentation in less time, improve quality and decrease time to market
SOLIDWORKS Inspection – Automate Your Inspection Documentation
Quality is an indication of manufacturing accuracy. The quality department in an organization oversees Quality Assurance. A quality engineer inspects manufactured parts by the proper use of gauges accompanied by drawings and tabulated reports.
Are you a quality engineer following ballooning in drawings and manual typing in excel or hand-writing in inspection reports? Are you facing bulk of components queued up for inspection and struggling with on time completion? Then you have come to the right place!
Welcome to SolidWorks INSPECTION, a tool that simplifies the creation of Ballooned Drawing and Inspection Report through automation.
As an Add-in, this tool interacts with native SOLIDWORKS drawings in more automated manner allowing seamless integration with SolidWorks and easy updates. As a Standalone, this tool allows non-CAD users to extract data from PDF or TIFF drawings to create ballooned inspection drawings and quality inspection reports.
Are you a quality engineer following ballooning in drawings and manual typing in excel or hand-writing in inspection reports? Are you facing bulk of components queued up for inspection and struggling with on time completion? Then you have come to the right place!
Welcome to SolidWorks INSPECTION, a tool that simplifies the creation of Ballooned Drawing and Inspection Report through automation.
As an Add-in, this tool interacts with native SOLIDWORKS drawings in more automated manner allowing seamless integration with SolidWorks and easy updates. As a Standalone, this tool allows non-CAD users to extract data from PDF or TIFF drawings to create ballooned inspection drawings and quality inspection reports.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Features
Inspection Drawing determines what features need to be measured through balloons.
Inspection Report created from inspection drawing lists the details of what will be inspected. Once the part is measured, the measured values will be entered into this form.
An INSPECTION project records the project properties, extraction settings, tolerance settings, and inspection characteristic data along with data like gauges, manufacturing method within the drawing document. Finally, it exports to 2D PDF and MS Excel files. Entered values in the results column in the final Excel report turn green or red color displaying Pass/Fail status.
One of its powerful features in INSPECTION Standalone known as OCR engine (Optical Characteristic Recognition) will convert the image of the selected text into an actual text value within the inspection project thereby eliminating manual input and reduces errors.
Inspection Report created from inspection drawing lists the details of what will be inspected. Once the part is measured, the measured values will be entered into this form.
An INSPECTION project records the project properties, extraction settings, tolerance settings, and inspection characteristic data along with data like gauges, manufacturing method within the drawing document. Finally, it exports to 2D PDF and MS Excel files. Entered values in the results column in the final Excel report turn green or red color displaying Pass/Fail status.
One of its powerful features in INSPECTION Standalone known as OCR engine (Optical Characteristic Recognition) will convert the image of the selected text into an actual text value within the inspection project thereby eliminating manual input and reduces errors.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Packages
SOLIDWORKS Inspection
Standard
SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION Standard with an embedded SolidWorks add-in and a standalone application creates inspection documents regardless of file type.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard is for designers, quality engineers, technicians, and inspectors who are responsible for creating industry-standard inspection documents.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard is for designers, quality engineers, technicians, and inspectors who are responsible for creating industry-standard inspection documents.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection
Professional
SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION Professional extends capabilities by enabling users to enter each characteristic value manually, by using a Digital Caliper, or by importing CMM results.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional is for quality engineers, technicians, and inspectors who are responsible for inspecting parts, recording measurements, and operating or programming inspection equipment, including calipers, CMM, and optical measuring devices.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional is for quality engineers, technicians, and inspectors who are responsible for inspecting parts, recording measurements, and operating or programming inspection equipment, including calipers, CMM, and optical measuring devices.
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Benefits of SOLIDWORKS Inspection
Thus, SOLIDWORKS INSPECTION is a handy tool for designers, engineers, quality inspectors in First Article Inspection (FAIR), In-Process Inspection and Receiving Inspection. And it could generate inspection report in industry-standards like AS9102, PPAP, and ISO 13485. This tool makes inspection process efficient, reduces time-to-market, enhances product quality and results in money savings.
- Saves up to 90% of time performing inspections and creating inspection documents.
- Helps to create detailed reports in minutes.
- Improves time-to-market.
- Eliminates errors and inconsistencies.
- Supports a variety of 2D and 3D CAD data as well as PDF and TIFF files.
- Complies with industry standards.
- Quickens Return of Investment (ROI).
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Our Customer Testimonial
“Manpro brings to your world-class quality components for all your global engineering needs. We use SOLIDWORKS Inspection to generate inspection reports. SOLIDWORKS Inspection is a time saving & cost-effective software, which upon implementation has increased our productivity.”
Muthu Mahudeeswaran – Managing Director
Manpro Equipments Pvt. Ltd.
SOLIDWORKS Inspection FAQs
It is not included in any of CAD Packages. SOLIDWORKS Inspection comes in as Two Separate Modules
1. SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard
2. SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional
1. SOLIDWORKS Inspection Standard
2. SOLIDWORKS Inspection Professional
The learning modules for SOLIDWORKS Inspection is available in Mysolidworks.com. Further, you can reach out to Conceptia Konnect for dedicated Training on SOLIDWORKS Inspection.
It can be added as an Add-In into existing SOLIDWORKS. If SOLIDWORKS is not being used, it can be installed as a separate standalone application.
No, It is not free. We have two different modules with standard prices available for each module. Reach out to for the Best quote and prices
First and foremost Inspection Drawings available either in PDF, TIFF, DWG/DXF, .SLDDRW, etc., are ballooned with the sequential Ballooning method then the results are Extracted into Inspection report . The First Article Inspection (FAI)report can be customized as per your organization. The Ballooned Inspection Dimensions can be saved into PDF File format and transferred accordingly.
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