Establishment of backup system for failed NC robot

Author

Girish, N. ; Subbaiah, K.M. ; Upendra, K.

Author_Institution

I & PE Dept., NIE, Mysore, India

fYear

2014

fDate

8-8 July 2014

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

342

Abstract

Automotive assembly lines are often characterized by robots´ failures that may result in stoppages of the lines and manual backup of tasks. The phenomena tend to impair throughput rate and products´ quality. Hence, there is a need to develop low cost robot backup system with comparable efficiency. Here, an attempt is made to develop a electro-pneumatic system integrated with PLC as backup of NC Robot. The system developed can work at the time of emergency by replacing the NC robot. By this availability of backup it increases the production capacity, minimizes the line stop time and reduces down time.

Keywords

automobile industry; electropneumatic control equipment; failure analysis; numerical control; programmable controllers; redundancy; robotic assembly; PLC; automotive assembly lines; down time reduction; electro-pneumatic system; failed NC robot; line stop time minimization; product quality; production capacity; robot backup system; robot failures; Clamps; Sensor systems; Service robots; Spot welding; Down Time; Electro-pneumatic; Production capacity; Robot Backup system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Current Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICCTET), 2014 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7986-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCTET.2014.6966312

Filename

6966312