Customer-Specific Sensor Production via Segmented Development Package
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Solution Overview
Problem
Standard sensors are not optimally suited for customer-specific applications due to their one-size-fits-all design, leading to over-engineering and increased costs, as they often include unnecessary features and lack specific functionalities required by customers.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing a sensor development package comprising a standard sensor and a customization unit, allowing for customization of the algorithm and interface to meet specific customer needs, enabling the production of a stripped-down customer-specific sensor with only the required technical features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If standard sensors are used with identical equipment features for all applications, then manufacturing cost is reduced and production efficiency is improved, but adaptability to customer-specific requirements deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor system is segmented into a standard sensor component and a separate customization unit. The standard sensor provides core sensing capabilities, while the customization unit contains configurable algorithms and interfaces that can be tailored to specific customer applications. This segmentation allows mass production of standard sensors while enabling post-production customization without retooling.
Solution Approach 2:
The customization unit introduces dynamic configurability to the otherwise static standard sensor. Through software-based customization algorithms and configurable interfaces, the sensor's measurement parameters and output characteristics can be dynamically adjusted to match different customer requirements without physical modification to the sensor hardware.
2Measurement precision
If customer-specific sensors are developed with all desired technical features, then measurement precision and application suitability are improved, but manufacturing cost increases due to over-engineering
Solution Approach 1:
The customization capabilities are extracted from the core sensor design and placed in a separate customization unit. This allows the standard sensor to remain simple and cost-effective, while customer-specific requirements are met through optional software-based customization features that can be added or removed based on actual needs, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of designing different hardware configurations for different applications, the system changes parameters through software-based customization algorithms. Measurement parameters, calculation methods, and interface characteristics can be modified through parameter changes in the customization unit, achieving application-specific precision without increasing physical device complexity.
3Productivity
If customization is performed after production, then manufacturing efficiency is maintained, but development time for customer-specific features increases
Solution Approach 1:
The customization unit is pre-integrated into the sensor system during manufacturing, with all necessary software interfaces and algorithm structures prepared in advance. This preliminary preparation allows customers to perform customization and testing quickly after receiving the sensor, significantly reducing the effective development time for customer-specific applications while maintaining high manufacturing efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a method for producing a customer-specific sensor on the basis of a standard sensor using a sensor development package, the sensor development package comprising at least the standard sensor and a customization unit, and the method for producing the customer-specific sensor having at least the following steps: customizing the customization unit to an application designated by a customer; introducing the sensor development package into the designated application of the customer so that the customer can test the sensor development package in the application; testing the sensor development package introduced into the designated application, by the customer; and producing the customer-specific sensor.