A manufacturer of hydraulic pumps for heavy industrial machinery certified every pump with manual tests and hand-written documentation. Ten hours for each certification cycle. Six months of automation quadrupled production capacity and made it possible to win a strategic contract.
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The situation
- Manual tests with analogue instruments subject to vibration and imprecise readings
- 10 hours to produce the certification documentation for each pump
- Sequential handling: one test bench at a time per operator
- Impossible to grow without increasing staff
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Test station automation
- Analogue instruments replaced by digital readers connected directly to the system
- Python scripts for the automatic collection of all parameters (temperature, pressure, flow rate) integrated into the technical sheet already in use
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Automatic documentation
- AI system for filling in the certification documents from predefined templates
- Automatic handling of both positive cases and revisions in case of anomaly
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Parallel management of the benches
- Operator free to manage several benches in parallel — manual intervention only for physical anomalies
- Review time in case of anomaly halved compared with the previous way of working
The results
- 4xproduction capacity with the same staff
- -90%certification time per pump (from 10 hours to 1)
- 1strategic contract won — the direct aim of the whole intervention