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Automated assembly equipment design

No matter what product or industry, the essence of automation is to use automated equipment to replace labor. Therefore, it means to replace labor and use the equipment and instruments currently used by humans to complete the work. In the final analysis, it is to replace manual loading and unloading and movements.

Automation equipment needs to consider the following issues:

1）Transmission problems between workstations    conveyor belt,AGV, turntable, etc.

2）realization of movement            XYZServo or robot?

3）Counterpoint problem            Machine vision, mechanical positioning

4）Material supply problem            Various matching parts feeding methods

5）Process implementation of each step      Locking screws, assembling, dispensing glue, posture conversion

6）Compatible equipment modules Existing assembly equipment, connection of test equipment

7）Production line layout The specific form and capacity matching of each work station

8）Entire line of communication and informatization    Communication between workstations, overall control, and informatization

9）Intelligent Intelligent response to problems and foolproofing

The currently planned projects require some directional considerations

1) Each work station is independent, intelligent, suitable for a variety of products, and minimizes purely mechanical methods.

2) If a production line includes too many processes, there will be a greater risk and some processes will be made into branches of the main line.

3) It is very important to respond intelligently to some errors in incoming materials and assembly.

4) When there are errors in the incoming materials, the more work stations there are, the replacement of products, etc., the investment in intelligent methods will be less than that in purely mechanical methods.

The principles of automation technology solutions for all products are basically the same. The principles are common, which is nothing more than the integration of motion control, machine vision, sensor technology, process technology, feeding technology, and information networks.