The aim of the Innovation Booster Project was to select the sensor technology for a visual inspection of the transparent Thoratec blood pump. The visual inspection will be fully integrated into an automated assembly process which includes a quality decision with a zero tolerance for wrong pass-fail decisions. Besides the financial help, the experts from the Innovation Booster Photonics supported us to evaluate and test the sensors to find a feasible solution for the automated visual inspection process. The results are very promising, and we will continue with a full development project.
Research partner:
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
Implementation partner:
Thoratec Switzerland GmbH, part of Abbott Laboratories
VIVIOR AG, Anja Starke
Swiss Queen GmbH, Michela Mastropietro
CEDES AG, Martin Hardegger
HUBER+SUHNER AG, Matthias Bleibler
Swisens AG, Erny Niederberger
AAA Assemblage Acoustique Azau, Csaba Azau
No-Touch Robotics GmbH, Marcel Schuck
Vario-optics AG, Nikolaus Flöry
IngStaff GmbH, Mehmet Demirel
Oryl Photonics SA, Orly Tarun
FHNW, Bojan Resan
ZHAW, Dirk Penner
FH OST, Oliver Fähnle
xirrus GmbH, Lukas Schuler
SUSS MicroOptics SA, Toralf Scharf
Synova SA, Jeremie Diboine
Infrascreen, Benoit de Combaud
RhySearch Optical Coating, Heidi Thomé
XENLUX AG, Philippe Morel
Photonics Booster
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