Case studies

Customer project · AUMOVIO

Picking SMD reels and PCB packs from an AutoStore automatically

At Continental’s electronics plant in Ingolstadt – now AUMOVIO – a robot picks SMD reels and vacuum-sealed PCB packs straight from the AutoStore port and commissions them for production. HD Vision Systems supplied the vision: a light-field camera with AI object detection, grasp points, path planning and DMC reading. The application is part of the “Touchless Material Flow” concept, for which Continental received the VDA Logistics Award 2022.

VDA Logistics Award 2022 for the overall concept

Ingolstadt plant, delivered 2021 for Continental (now AUMOVIO)

Customer project · Mühlbauer Technologie

Inspecting glossy bumpers with light field and LumiScan VGR

Special-purpose machine builder Mühlbauer Technologie builds inspection systems for painted front and rear bumpers. Light-field cameras from HD Vision Systems capture the glossy parts, and LumiScan VGR measures them and guides the inspection robot – today in thirteen systems in Germany and abroad.

13 inspection systems in operation

In use in Germany and abroad (as of 2024)

Customer project · BENTELER Automotive

Bin picking oily steel parts from mixed boxes

BENTELER Automotive picks oily, shiny steel parts for axle systems from boxes that arrive unsorted. At its test centre in Paderborn, the light-field solution from HD Vision Systems detected the parts reliably and kept the ABB robot supplied with collision-free grasp paths.

“We are highly satisfied with HD Vision Systems’ solution for bin picking in our difficult conditions.”

Tested at the BENTELER test centre in Paderborn, 2021

Partner project · Teledyne Vision Solutions

Visual clamping with Teledyne: inspect a part wherever it lies

An operator lays a part on the table without a fixture. A Teledyne Perciva 5D camera locates it, LumiScan VGR adjusts the measurement path, and a cobot carries a Z-Trak profiler along that path.

Partner demonstration at VISION 2026 in Stuttgart

Partner project · ABB Robotics

Teaching part variants for 3D inspection with an ABB PoWa cobot

For a new part variant, the operator teaches the inspection task in LumiScan VGR. ABB Robotics and HD Vision Systems demonstrated this workflow with a PoWa cobot, the LumiScan X light-field camera and additional sensing from AT Sensors.

Joint demonstration presented in October 2026

Partner project · DXC Technology

Capturing a used car for an online showroom

For a used-car listing, the vehicle itself has to be captured. DXC Technology and HD Vision Systems built a prototype using LumiScan X to explore how to automate that step.

Joint prototype with DXC Technology

Engineering demo · HD Vision Systems

Seven views, one point cloud

When the scene extends beyond a single camera view, the sensor can capture it in sections. Watch individual views come together into a single 3D representation of the parts and rails on the workbench.

Recorded lab demonstration

Engineering demo · HD Vision Systems · Kassow Robots

Guiding a Kassow cobot to a part in a tray

On the HD Vision Systems test bench, a Kassow cobot approaches a tray of small parts. The gripper closes on one part, lifts it and moves clear of the tray.

LumiScan VGR lab demonstration