Abstract
Short series manufacturing forces production lines towards flexibility
and reconfigurability with quickening pace. As many small- and medium
enterprises wrestle to be profitable, the solutions are searched from modern
manufacturing technologies like robotics. Currently, there are no commercially
feasible OEM product packets available and therefore a lot of integration and
development work is required before a production line is effective. To create
such production lines in the future, this paper introduces a production
platform concept “Isles of Automation”, which can provide the services that
current systems are lacking. The Isles of Automation have a modular and
layered structure, so the integration work will be easier and the robot cell
will be as effective as it can be. To evaluate the concept, an example
manufacturing process was selected and automated. The implementation mainly
targeted the programming of the robot tasks, which is considered to be one of
the main challenges with short series manufacturing robots.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings |
| Subtitle of host publication | IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISlE 2009 |
| Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| Pages | 104-109 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4244-4347-5, 978-1-4244-4349-9 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2009 - Seoul, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Duration: 5 Jul 2009 → 8 Jul 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2009 |
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| Abbreviated title | ISIE 2009 |
| Country/Territory | Korea, Democratic People's Republic of |
| City | Seoul |
| Period | 5/07/09 → 8/07/09 |
Keywords
- flexible manufacturing systems
- industrial robots
- robot programming
