Abstract
The Virtual Commissioning (VC) technology is the latest trend in automotive assembly which, among other benefits, promises a more efficient handling of the complexity in assembly systems, a great reduction in the system’s ramp-up time, and a resulting shortening of the product’s time to market. This paper presents the application of VC techniques to the case of an industrial robotic cell, involving cooperating robots. The complete workflow of the virtual validation of the cell is presented, and the implementation requirements are discussed. Based on the findings, the outlook and challenges for the wide-range adoption of VC technologies in large-scale assembly systems are provided.
Highlights
As product life cycles are reduced in the continuously changing marketplace, modern manufacturing systems should have sufficient responsiveness to adapt their behaviours efficiently to a wide range of circumstances 1
The objective of this paper is to present and analyse all the steps required for the assembly systems’ virtual commissioning to be carried out
This work has examined the latest advances in VC technologies and presented the complete workflow of applying such techniques to an industrial assembly cell
Summary
As product life cycles are reduced in the continuously changing marketplace, modern manufacturing systems should have sufficient responsiveness to adapt their behaviours efficiently to a wide range of circumstances 1 In this context, one of the main challenges that modern assembly systems are faced with, is the cost-driven demand for faster and more secure rampup processes. The complexity and diversity of the different line components, in terms of control systems and communication channels, requires a great amount of time for onsite setup, testing, and validation of the assembly equipment This in turn, is translated into production system downtime and the respective opportunity costs that follow it. The continuous emphasis of the assembly industries on multirobot cooperation platforms requires that the particularities of such novel systems be investigated when applying state-of-the-art VC techniques Towards this direction, a complete method of VC, complemented by a selection of capable software tools, is being discussed in this paper
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