Automated Manufacturing Systems

The course is a substitute for:

Automated Manufacturing Systems (13AVS)

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Supervisor:

Department of Electrotechnology

Synopsis:

Principal arrangement of the manufacturing system. Technical tools of automation - NC machines, CNC and DNC systems. Industrial robots and manipulators. Kinematics, dynamics and construction industrial robots and manipulators. Application of industrial robots and manipulators in the manufacturing. Automated technological workplaces with robots and manipulators. Pre-manufacturing subsystems and their computer support - CAD, CAP, CAPP, CAM etc. Principles of CIM systems, industrial computer networks.

Requirements:

The attendance at practices is obligatiry.

Requirements to the assesment: Active implication in the practices and the participation on the excursions. Elaboration of all assigned problems.

Requirements to the examination: A student has to obtain the assessment before the examination. Thematical circles of sourse.

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Manufacturing system characteristics, basic structures, subsystems

2.Manufacturing process - structure, examples of electrical production

3.Technological subsystem of manufacturing system - structure, automation

4.NC machines and their programming, CNC and DNC systems

5.Requirements on the industrial robots and manipulators in the technological processes

6.Kinematics and dynamics of industrial robots and manipulators

7.Control and programming of industrial robots and manipulators

8.Automated technological workplaces with industrial robots and manipulators

9.Complex automated production cells, sections, lines and systems

10.Preparation and control of production, partial subsystems, computer support

11.Design of products, inputs and outputs, CAD

12.Technology preparation, inputs and outputs, CAP

13.Computer integrated system (CIM) - basic functions and tools

14.Technical requirements and standardisation of safety of electrical project.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Production engineering. Examples of production technology of electrical products

2.Manufacturing processes with different production batch - examples

3.Visit to the electrical manufacturing process

4.Examples of technology sensors, application

5.Programming of NC machines

6.Examples of design of industrial robots and manipulators

7.Solving of basic problems of kinematics and dynamics of industrial robots and manipulators

8.Programming of industrial robots and manipulators, examples

9.Control and programming of robot

10.Visit to the manufacturing process with industrial robots and manipulators

11.Demonstrations of programs for manufacturing preparation

12.Application of programs for manufacturing preparation

13.Visit to the electrical manufacturing system

14.A credit

Study Objective:

To acquaint students with the basic layout of the production system, the technical means of automation, production planning systems and computer-aided

Study materials:

1. Bedworth, Henderson, Wolfe: Computer-integrated design and manufacturing. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1991

2. Paul: Robot Manipulators. London: MIT Press. 1990

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Heavy-current Engineering - Technological Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electric Drives- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electroenergetics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electrical Engineering Applications- structured studies (compulsory elective course)