Robot-controlled exchange of faulty blocks
Concrete blocks are no longer just square, practical, and gray – we encounter them in a wide range of shapes, colors, and structures. In concrete plants they are fully automatically manufactured, handled, and palletized, restricting human influence for the most part to process and quality control.
Every concrete block is visually inspected to detect visual irregularities. A worker decides whether a fault is quality-relevant and whether it requires an exchange of the block. If that is the case, the block will be manually removed and replaced by a faultless product. This procedure, however, is...
