INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC AUTOMATION
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INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC AUTOMATION
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INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC AUTOMATION
“I think that technology in form of robots can be of a great help by taking over the monotonous jobs by the robots and the human work force can be used for more intelligent work.”
Shri. Nitinbhai Motani Founder
Industrial Automation - Machines
• Storage Systems
• Handling Systems
• Assembly Lines
– Assembly Cells
– Machines
• Actuators
• Sensors
• Production Lines
– Production Cells
– Machines
• Actuators
• Sensors
Applications of Automation
• Traditional: appliances control (windows, seats, radio,..) • Motor control (exhaust regulations) • Critical new applications: ABS (anti-skip) and EPS (stability), Brake-by-wire,
steer-by-wire (“X-by-wire”) increased safety ? • Extreme price squeezing
Automobile
display unit vehicle control unit
DU
TCU
DU
TCU
VCU
radio link
there are more than 20 interconnected computers on a locomotive
brakes signaling traction control unit diagnostics energy
Benefits: reduce operation costs, faster diagnostics, better energy management, automatic train control.
VCU
SBB 460
Railway
• “Avionics”: • Flight control (Safe Flight Envelope, Autopilot, “Engineer”) • Flight management • Flight recording (Black boxes, Turbine Supervision) • Diagnostics: “Fly-by-Wire”
Aircraft
• Protection (Lines, transformers, generators) • Very high speed response control (remote or local) to guarantee power flow, • Safe operation (interlocking) • Measurement (local and remote), • Electricity bill, • Power flow in grid
Substation
• Inventory • Recipe management • Packaging • Sampling • Tracking & tracing • Comply with government rules:
Typical of batch processes. Pharma
• Extreme dependency on the • availability of the control • system
• Connection to
• Supply chain management, • Order fulfilment • Customer relationship and • Commercial accounting (SAP)
Warehouse
• Tasks of control system: • Motor control (synchronisation of the printing cylinders) • Ink and water control • Paper web control (reelstands (Rollenwechsler, bobines), web tension, emergency knife) • Interface to operator (commands, alarms) • Production preparation and statistics - up to the press room
• Very high requirements on availability: two hours delay and the production is lost.
Printing
Control tasks: Oven rotation and temperature control fuel supply, silos, transport belts, grinding mills, pollution monitoring, quality supervision, filler stations,...
The rotating oven is the heart of the cement process: the grinded kiln is burnt and comes out as chunks later reduced to powder.
Cement
Industrial Robot
Industrial Automation – Floor Plan
Types of Automation
Programmable Automation
Flexible Automation
Fixed Automation
Variety
Quantity
Sequence of processing (or assembly) operations is fixed by the equipment configuration
Typical features:
• Suited to high production quantities
• High initial investment for custom-engineered equipment
• High production rates
• Relatively inflexible in accommodating product variety
Fixed Automation
Capability to change the sequence of operations throug reprogramming to accommodate different product configurations
Typical features:
• High investment in programmable equipment
• Lower production rates than fixed automation
• Flexibility to deal with variations and changes in product configuration
• Most suitable for batch production
• Physical setup and part program must be changed between jobs (batches)
Programmable Automation
System is capable of changing over from one job to the next with little lost time between jobs
Typical features:
• High investment for custom-engineered system
• Continuous production of variable mixes of products
• Medium production rates
• Flexibility to deal with soft product variety
Flexible Automation
Why Automating?
• Increase labor productivity • Reduce labor cost • Mitigate the effects of labor shortages • Reduce or remove routine manual and clerical
tasks • Improve worker safety • Improve product quality • Reduce manufacturing lead time • Accomplish what cannot be done manually • Avoid the high cost of not automating
1. Understand the existing process
– Input/output analysis
– Value chain analysis
– Charting techniques and mathematical modeling
2. Simplify the process
– Reduce unnecessary steps and moves
3. Automate the process
– Ten strategies for automation and production systems
– Automation migration strategy
Automation Principle
• Specialization of operations
• Combined operations
• Simultaneous operations
• Integration of operations
• Increased flexibility
• Improved material handling and storage
• On-line inspection
• Process control and optimization
• Plant operations control
• Computer-integrated manufacturing
Automation Strategies
Automation Migration Strategy
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