Entries Tagged: Robotics

by Markus Erlmann | 22 Jan 2010

What’s the big deal with Teamcenter here? The manufacturing engineers now can use the same environment as the product engineers. This enables the manufacturing engineers to get product updates immediately without data conversion.

In addition Teamcenter provides platform services like revisions, effectivity, and change or variants management. And not to forget the communication and collaboration capabilities which support global engineering and manufacturing.

Let’s take a look at the planning workflow and focus on weld points. They are used to hold the nearly 400 single parts of the car body together.

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by Markus Erlmann | 13 Jul 2009

What about the manufacturing productivity? Let’s have a look at automated production lines. They are e.g. used in the automotive industry. A good overview provides this movie from KUKA, a robot manufacturer.

Today all these robots are programmed and validated in a virtual environment. In addition to the robots, system level control is required. This is accomplished with Programmable Logic Controllers or short PLC. They handle the decision making for the line such as material flow or control the fixtures and grippers which are locating the parts in place during the welding process. These PLCs are generally programmed with applications provided by the PLC vendor. As you could see in the video, the robots and PLCs need to communicate. E.g. the robots start welding only after the grippers are closed and the grippers open again only after the robots finished the welding.

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Tags: tecnomatix | Tecnomatix | Digital Factory | Digital Manufacturing | productivity | Productivity | Robotics | Virtual Commissioning | Kuka | PLC |

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