How to Become a Manufacturing Cell Fully-AutomatedWithout Robots: Case-Study in the AutomotiveComponents Industry in Advances in robotics & Mechanical Engineering by F J G Silva
Productivity is a key factor for companies manufacturing parts and sets
to the automotive industry. Automation plays an
important role in this matter, allowing development of entire
manufacturing cells without the direct need of workers. Even in
countries where the labour cost is relatively low, it becomes necessary
to improve the level of automation applied to manufacture
cells and reduce the dependence of the human labour unpredictability,
also increasing the quality and reducing the costs. This
case study was developed based on an industrial request in order to
improve a semi-automatic cell devoted to seat suspension
mat manufacturing. The original cell allows several automatic operations
but it needs two workers for two specific operations not
considered in the initial design. Thus, new concepts of wire feeding and
manipulation were developed in order to allow a better
material flow throughout the cell. The new cell was designed and built
with success, allowing obtain a fully-automated system,
which leads to a better productivity and reliability of the
manufacturing process.
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