Modeling Stamping Robot for CIMS Based on UML

This paper describes an object-oriented, general model of a stamping robot. The proposed robot model have the advantages that the management of the manufacturing cell has direct access to the real physical properties of the robot and its control. Thus production planning becomes more reliable and the management can effectively respond to modifications of the robot and its environment. The modeling aims at an improvement of information exchange between these commonly separated levels of the CIM hierarchy. Interactions between both levels are discussed with placing special emphasis on the integration of information related to the physical properties of the robot into the flexible manufacturing cell.With this model a high adaptivity to changing manufacturing situations is achieved.