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6045 |
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Hall Mailand 3:45 PM Digitalisation and Simulation |
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Next generation robot programming |
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Leo Bartevyan* / CENIT AG
Digital Factory Solutions, Germany |
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Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and individualized productions have a considerable influence on industrial manufacturing processes today. Products are becoming ever more individual and at the same time production cycles are becoming ever shorter ('time to market'). In order to remain competitive, you therefore need an ideal utilization of resources with optimum machine performance. However, individual products and small batch sizes, as well as fast changeovers and near-zero downtimes are in permanent contradiction to each other. The technical requirements are constantly growing, dynamically and interdisciplinary. Current projects demand exact, synchronous and simultaneous axis movements, complex control systems and time-true signal exchange. The use of modern IT tools and modular software makes it possible to solve these paradoxes. By networking the components and data from all system levels, directly and without friction losses, the system boundaries between machine, robot, IT and software disappear. The exact reading in of a CAD design and the derivation of a corresponding position or contour is only the first step. With robot-assisted welding, it is important to keep a close eye on many parameters at the same time. Material, welding process and control have a decisive influence on the quality of the weld seam. And it depends on precision AND speed. Using technology packages, in the form of object-oriented modules, realistic and control-true movements are created. With important technology parameters such as approach dimension, feed rate, contact pressure or material application enriched, and via direct coupling to kinematics, sensor technology and control, perfect and optimized robot and machine programs are created. The approach presented here is new and groundbreaking because it is manufacturer independent and consistently consolidates the highly complex individual disciplines on a simple and universal programming platform. This session will present new methods for an extensive automation of robot programming for arc and laser welding using vivid examples. |