Design of a smart carrier for asset-awareness production
Resúa Rey, Álvaro (2012)
2012
Automaatio-, kone- ja materiaalitekniikan tiedekunta - Faculty of Automation, Mechanical and Materials Engineering
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2012-06-06
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201206191221
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201206191221
Tiivistelmä
The adaptation of new technology to production system is an open challenge. The most advanced devices allow producing faster, cheaper and better, helping to fulfil the market needs. The companies are under pressure to satisfy the changing requirements from customers.
Production lines have limited resources, making a perfect use of them is nowadays mandatory, due to the fact that the lifecycle of the products are shorter and in consequence the manufacturing lines lifecycle is being reduced. To increase the profitably, the bottlenecks and no operational time of the robots have to be avoided, or minimize them in order to arrive to a balanced line where the idle time of each robot is reduced to the minimum. To achieve this scenario, during last years, many fields such as monitoring, automatic quality control, asset-aware and self-recovery have got momentum.
The purpose of this Master Thesis is the design, production, and integration of a transport system with asset-aware capabilities for an existing manufacturing line.
The different devices to allow gathering the necessary data must be found, analysed, tested and incorporated to the transport element. The design of the new system counts for many aspects apart from the traditional functional design, such as imperceptible as wireless communication or ease robots reprograming.
At the same time all this work has been done looking forward to design a transport system that could be easily implemented in the line, making the changes as fast as possible.
Production lines have limited resources, making a perfect use of them is nowadays mandatory, due to the fact that the lifecycle of the products are shorter and in consequence the manufacturing lines lifecycle is being reduced. To increase the profitably, the bottlenecks and no operational time of the robots have to be avoided, or minimize them in order to arrive to a balanced line where the idle time of each robot is reduced to the minimum. To achieve this scenario, during last years, many fields such as monitoring, automatic quality control, asset-aware and self-recovery have got momentum.
The purpose of this Master Thesis is the design, production, and integration of a transport system with asset-aware capabilities for an existing manufacturing line.
The different devices to allow gathering the necessary data must be found, analysed, tested and incorporated to the transport element. The design of the new system counts for many aspects apart from the traditional functional design, such as imperceptible as wireless communication or ease robots reprograming.
At the same time all this work has been done looking forward to design a transport system that could be easily implemented in the line, making the changes as fast as possible.