User feedback is undoubtedly an important force driving technological progress.
n the winter of 2014, a client owner and technical team visited Vat-Power and expressed strong interest in the company's automated loading and unloading grinding equipment. However, upon learning that the device adopts a quantitative grinding wheel wear compensation method, the customer criticized it, stating that grinding automation without intelligent detection of grinding wheel wear compensation is unacceptable.
This criticism prompted researchers at Vat-Power to use precision laser technology to measure grinding wheel wear and develop a non-contact, dynamic, online device for detecting grinding wheel wear and achieving accurate compensation. It can achieve high-precision measurement (with a repetition error of ± 0.025mm) in harsh environments, and the detection time is only 0.63 seconds.
After six months of testing at the 18th subsidiary group, this device not only achieved the expected results, but also unexpectedly found that it can save grinding wheel consumption by up to 10% to 20% compared to traditional automatic quantitative compensation. This is a huge breakthrough for cost savings and efficiency improvement.