Trade fair highlight 14. September 2024
Engineering Tools for Planning and Designing Automation solutions
Fraunhofer IPA presents tools that support end users and system integrators in analyzing, designing and optimizing production and assembly solutions.
In a first step, the automation potential analysis app (APA app) can be used to analyze manual assembly workstations and estimate the savings potential through automation.
If it is a "high-mix-low-volume" assembly, it is recommended to choose a lean automation solution in which, for example, the worker - using the Assemblio SW Suite – is walked through the assembly process for a particular product variant step by step. The software derives the necessary assembly instruction animations directly from the CAD models.
If the APA app recommends human-robot collaboration, IPA’s CARA (Computer-aided Risk Assessment) tool supports the risk assessment for collaborative robot cells and makes it faster, easier and less error-prone. Up to 54% less effort.
During operation, the Robo-Dashcam records how people interact with a collaborative robot cell and thereby trigger safety devices, such as a safe stop. The recorded data is used to check the effectiveness of safety measures and to identify optimization potential in terms of cycle time/performance. Up to 10% higher throughput can be achieved.
For a fully automated solution, the IPA PlanningToolChain supports the design of the automation solution by a) deriving the necessary process steps from CAD models; b) selecting suitable automation components from a library, c) arranging those components their automatically in the available layout, as well as d) visualizing the automation cell using “augmented reality”.
In a first step, the automation potential analysis app (APA app) can be used to analyze manual assembly workstations and estimate the savings potential through automation.
If it is a "high-mix-low-volume" assembly, it is recommended to choose a lean automation solution in which, for example, the worker - using the Assemblio SW Suite – is walked through the assembly process for a particular product variant step by step. The software derives the necessary assembly instruction animations directly from the CAD models.
If the APA app recommends human-robot collaboration, IPA’s CARA (Computer-aided Risk Assessment) tool supports the risk assessment for collaborative robot cells and makes it faster, easier and less error-prone. Up to 54% less effort.
During operation, the Robo-Dashcam records how people interact with a collaborative robot cell and thereby trigger safety devices, such as a safe stop. The recorded data is used to check the effectiveness of safety measures and to identify optimization potential in terms of cycle time/performance. Up to 10% higher throughput can be achieved.
For a fully automated solution, the IPA PlanningToolChain supports the design of the automation solution by a) deriving the necessary process steps from CAD models; b) selecting suitable automation components from a library, c) arranging those components their automatically in the available layout, as well as d) visualizing the automation cell using “augmented reality”.
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Mr. Ramez Awad