Best Practice H 01
Virtual Measuring Room (VMR)
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ATOS ScanBox by Zeiss GOM
Since its market launch in 2010, the ScanBox from GOM, now part of the ZEISS Group, has enjoyed unprecedented success. The ATOS optical 3D measuring system, which was previously only manual or semi-automated, could suddenly be automated and thus integrated into industrial processes.
This system owes its success to the simple, modular design and the fact that no complex new programs have to be learned to program the robot cell. The automation was integrated into the GOM world by simply creating a new workspace within the GOM software Inspect Pro. This area is the VMR, the virtual measuring room. The center of this programming environment is and remains the component.
3D view of the VMR with the positions of a measurement series shown as blue symbols
VMR, as part of GOM Inspect Pro, therefore offers developers simple and reliable methods for quickly creating an operative measurement program adapted for the ATOS ScanBox robot cell. This program is stored in the form of a 'template'. It is then available to the KIOSK user interface to carry out the component test.
KIOSK is an interface with a reduced range of functions for running automated ATOS ScanBox programs.
In practice, it has proven to be useful to separate program creation and maintenance on the one hand and the VMR with the ScanBox robot cell on the other hand in terms of location and function. This is also for cost reasons, because a VMR license is 1 1/2 times the cost of a GOM Inspect workstation. The time required to create GOM Inspect programs is many times higher than to automate these measurement programs in the VMR. The ScanBox should be productive and measure components. But one should reserve capacity on the cell to create new VMR programs and to optimize and maintain existing programs.
GOM Inspect as part of the VMR
A GOM Inspect program is created offline at a pure GOM Inspect Pro workstation until it is imported into the basic program of the ScanBox cell on the VMR workstation for completion. Here it gets its final project name, the cell environment is aligned to the component and a series of measurements with robot positions is (automatically) generated.
GOM Inspect Pro and the VMR (Version 2022) with the 'Measurement Setup' menu
In GOM Inspect Pro, access to the VMR is in the left toolbar. There it is represented in the form of a working environment (the robot icon with the blue background). The imported GOM Inspect program will now be adjusted.
If the range of components that the automatic test station is to run through allows, a standard VMR program is used here, which already contains all the elements that are used again and again in the industrial application of the ATOS ScanBox. In addition to the cell program, this also includes the permanent recording of measurements, which is used in the same way for as many programs to be executed as possible in this application. Cell program and measurement recording together form the measurement setup that is saved in this standard VMR program.
On the following pages we want to try to deal with the topics of VMR measurement setup and series of measurements, as well as ATOS ScanBox development planning, and show solution approaches for a specific application from stamping/forming technology.
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