Mistakes forbidden – over 20 merciless measuring points until enlightenment

Hochmuth explains: “It starts when the luminaires enter the frame. There is a one hundred percent check for weld strength testing. Then the geometry test up to a hundredth of a millimeter with hundred percent good-bad control. But even in the first step only geometrically flawless semi-finished product reaches the next processing step. ”

No samples are measured here. With the tremendous speed dictated by the 4,000-meter cycle, a sophisticated and custom-developed system measures every single component that runs off the production line – in real time. From the filament to the frame to the glass body, not a single element remains unrivaled. More than 20 of these measuring points will be at the end. Before, no lamp leaves the factory.

vosla is a supplier to the automotive industry. Only in the aircraft industry are the quality requirements even stricter. And at vosla itself. Hochmuth is by no means overburdened with these requirements. His team surpasses the claims confidently – namely ten times.

“The industry sets tight tolerances. Such tolerance is, let’s say, plus-minus two tenths. Let’s assume that during production the tolerance has been exceeded or undershot by one hundredth. Then you have 0.21 now. As the plant says: The product falls out. No customer would see the difference, even you, not even with any tools. That can only be this automatic geometry check. That’s why we say: one-hundredth of a millimeter decides on good and bad. Within such tolerances we move. ”

But this is not the end of the uncompromising pursuit of precision in the production of lamps. vosla signs each individual lamp in the HB3 / 4 / HIR2 product group in the automotive sector with a QR code. He makes each lamp traceable – except for the second of the production exactly. This includes details of the geometric data or torch production that were measured at that time. All the data gained further help to perfect processes even further.

Jörg Hochmuth is convinced that the QR code signature also offers tremendous benefits for vosla’s industrial customers. That’s why his team is working to integrate this feature and the data even more into the process chain.

Certifications for all these things are also available elsewhere. Also vosla can be certified every year its quality and product standards according to international standards. But norms and standards are one thing – they far surpass the other. Here you keep it more with the latter.