Industry 4.0
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Industry 4.0 is all about optimisation— smart, flexible supply chains, factories and distribution models where machines capture and convey more data via machine-to machine communications and to human operators. All this aims to enable businesses to make quicker, smarter decisions, all while minimising costs.
Read on to learn more about how you can realise this concept through technology readilly available today.
Robotics
Robots are tough, fast and extreamly accurate, resulting in the completion of their tasks faster, with better quality and for a lower price than humans. Why then should we keep the human factor, which can produce errors, and deal with collaborative robots?
Some operations have to be adapted to actual conditions. Robots are limited by their programming. Manipulation robots are usually designed to have six or seven degrees of freedom (motion axes) while the upper limb of human body has around thirty. This results in some limitations for robots – precise manipulation with a large range of motion.
Therefore, there are two barriers between operations performed by a human laborer and a robot.
Human – Robot Collaboration breaks through these barriers and prospers from advantages of machines in challenging applications with required presence of operating personnel.
They are designed to be safe around people, either by force limiting to avoid injury if they touch, by sensors that prevent touching or by a combination of both.
So what are collaborative robots?
- They are often relatively light weight and can be moved from task to task as needed.
- They do not require skill to program. Most cobots are simple enough that anyone who can use a smartphone or tablet can teach or program them.
- Just as a power saw is intended to help, not replace, the carpenter, the cobot is generally intended to assist, not replace, the production worker.
- Collaborative robots are generally simpler than more traditional robots, which makes them cheaper to buy, operate and maintain.
Digitilisation
Imagine a world where you could streamline and digitalise your entire business process, seamlessly integrating suppliers into the mix.
Well...The digital enterprise is already a reality
It is possible to use crucial information needed for decision-making to individually tailor services to customers of component manufacturers and improve products accordingly.
Mechanical engineers can select service data from the machines and thus track causes of malfunctions on service assignments more accurately.
Plant manufacturers can compare power consumption values and detect machine malfunctions early on so as to avoid machine downtime.
OEMs can give recommendations on how to optimize production, extend the warranty if machines are well maintained, and offer new business models for plants and machines, such as "pay per use".
All this is made possible through the use of Siemens PLM Software Suite.
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