“HUBER+SUHNER Cube Optics AG, based in Mainz, develops, manufactures, and markets highly miniaturized fiber optic components, modules, and systems for use in data and telecommunications products. So far, many of our products have been predominantly assembled manually. However, for future mass markets, we are increasingly investing in fully automated processes and systems. Against this background, our collaboration with MSTVision began at the end of 2019. After initial discussions, we conducted several joint development and planning workshops.
In the first phase, a camera-based process monitoring system with corresponding image processing was developed for an existing manual production station. This was done within the framework of a bachelor’s thesis supervised by MSTVision. During this phase, MSTVision also convinced us of the capabilities of the image processing library Halcon. Based on this, a fully automated production system was developed in the following months, in which all process steps are executed by motorized actuators controlled by an expanded camera-based process monitoring system.
The ability of the MSTVision team to quickly understand our processes and the complex interplay of many components was very valuable to us. The short development times (even with complex image content), the quick response times, as well as distributed work in Halcon and Visual Studio combined with professional source code management and documentation, were key factors in the success of our project. Moreover, the teamwork was very enjoyable for both our employees and external project partners.”
Dr. Dietrich Drews
Manager Microassembly & Optics, HUBER+SUHNER Cube Optics AG