Industrial Applications 

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Automation in Manufacturing



Goal: To integrate various operations to :
Improve Productivity
Increase product quality and Uniformity
Minimize cycle times and effort
Reduce labor cost
Computers allows us to integrate virtually all phases of manufacturing operations.
Computer-integrated manufacturing(CIM): Is the computerized integration of all aspects of design, planning, manufacturing, distribution, and management.
Automation Technologies:
Numerical Control(NC): capability of flexibility of operations, low cost, and ease of making different parts with lower operator skill.
Adaptive Control(AC): Continuously monitor the operation and make necessary adjustments in process parameters.


Industrial Applications(contd.)


Industrial Robot Applications can be divided into:
Material-handling applications:
Involve the movement of material or parts from one location to another.
It include part placement, palletizing and/or depalletizing, machine loading and unloading.
Processing Operations:
Requires the robot to manipulate a special process tool as the end effector.
The application include spot welding, arc welding, riveting, spray painting, machining, metal cutting, deburring, polishing.
Assembly Applications:
Involve part-handling manipulations of a special tools and other automatic tasks and operations.
Inspection Operations:
Require the robot to position a workpart to an inspection device.
Involve the robot to manipulate a device or sensor to perform the inspection.

Assembly Operations


Assembly Operations:
The applications involve both material-handling and the manipulation of a tool.
They typically include components to build the product and to perform material handling operations.
Are traditionally labor-intensive activities in industry and are highly repetitive and boring. Hence are logical candidates for robotic applications.
These are classified as:
Batch assembly: As many as one million products might be assembled. The assembly operation has long production runs.
Low-volume: In this a sample run of ten thousand or less products might be made.
The assembly robot cell should be a modular cell.
One of the well suited area for robotics assembly is the insertion of odd electronic components.
Figure illustrates a typical overall electronic assembly operation.