SmartFactory training line

SMARTFACTORY – ASSEMBLY LINE INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTOMATED AND MANUAL ASSEMBLY OF PRODUCTS

Name of contract:    SmartFactory – Testbed Industry 4.0 CPIT TL3
Delivery term:           In progress

SPECIFICATION

The complete delivery, including design, implementation, integration and delivery of the production environment for assembling products made from Lego parts, Lego building base and electronic components. At the end of its production cycle, an inspection will be performed for each product at a test station, including generating and recording an output report on the correctness and functionality of the product.

LAYOUT OF THE LINE

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS

The product of the line is composed of a Lego part. In addition, each product will contain an electronic circuit that gives the product a specific function. The individual building components will be placed on the Lego building base and after assembly they will form a compact unit. The SmartFactory line is designed for the assembly of three types of products with the possibility of the subsequent expansion of the product base.

KEY FUNCTIONS OF THE LINE

• The production system carries out both the automated and manual assembly of products.
• The product consists of Lego building blocks, blocks created with a 3D printer and electronic components.
• The configuration of the product and production method are selected at the beginning of the production cycle using a graphical user interface on the operator panel and on a mobile tablet device (“product configuration”).
• At the beginning of the assembly cycle of a new product, an empty product container is taken from stock and prepared.
• Based on the configuration of the product, the manipulator takes all parts of the selected product, including the electronic circuit, from stock and loads them into the product container.
• A check is made that the container contains all the required parts (each part is marked with a QR identification code) and the prepared set/container is placed on the platform of the conveyor system.
• Each Lego base will contain a memory identifier (RFID), which will contain all the information about the individual parts of the product and all the operations that are to be carried out on it.
• The control system verifies which of the workplaces has free production capacity and assigns the processing of the order to this workplace, i.e. transports the product container with parts to it and launches the operation.
• The assembly process will be based on machine vision and the guidance of the robot by camera.
• The robotic cells will be able to produce “their” defined product independently of each other.
• Complete warehouse management will be implemented by MES (Manufacturing Execution System).
• If manual assembly is selected in the initial configuration, the containers with the prepared product parts will be transported to the selected manual assembly workplace, where the assembly will be performed by the operator.