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Title: Implementation of automated assembly
Author: Kong, Kang H.
View Online: njit-etd1991-025
(iv, [126] pages ~ 13.1 MB pdf)
Department: Manufacturing Engineering Division
Degree: Master of Science
Program: Manufacturing Engineering
Document Type: Thesis
Advisory Committee: Kotefski, Steve (Committee chair)
Sodhi, R. S. (Committee member)
Levy, Nouri (Committee member)
Date: 1991
Keywords: Flexible manufacturing systems--Computer simulation
Assembly line methods--Computer simulation
Materials handling--Automation
Availability: Unrestricted
Abstract:

Research has shown that about 60 - 80% wealth producing activities is related to manufacturing in major industrial countries.

Increased competition in industry has resulted in a greater emphasis on using automation to improve productivity and quality and also to reduce cost.

Most of the manufacturing works such as machining, painting, storage, retrieval, inspection and transportation have changed to automation successfully, except assembly. Manual assembly is predominant over automatic assembly techniques due to inherent assembly problem and the fact that the assembly machines lack the innate intelligence of human operator and lack sufficient flexibility to changeover when product designs and market demands change.

With the advent of flexible manufacturing systems, which involve very large capital costs and complex interactions. For the reduction the risk of the investment and analyze the system, simulation is a valuable tool in planning the systems and in analyzing their behavior, and get the best use of them.

This thesis applies animation techniques to simulate an automatic assembly system.

In chapter 1 to 9, we cover some of the fundamental concepts and principles of automatic assembly and simulation. Some manufacturers put the subject of part orientation first on their list of priorities; but design for assembly (DFA) techniques have proven extremely valuable in developing better assembly techniques and ultimately, better products. We discuss DFA in chapter 1, part feeding and orientation in chapter 2. Chapter 3, 4 and 5 are concerned with assembly process, machines and control system, respectively. Annual sales for industrial robots have been growing at the rate of about 25 percent per year in major industrial countries, we review the robot application in chapter 6. The cost of material handling is a significant portion of the total cost of production, material storage uses valuable space and consumes investment, we cover these two topics in chapter 7 and 8. Chapter 9 is concerned with simulation.

In chapter 10, 11,12 and 13, we implement a software package IGRIP to build a model of an automatic assembly system and analyze the result.


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