The Development and Application of Robot in Manufacturing Industry

Since the appearance of the first industrial robots in the 1960s, robots have been undergoing constant upgrading and experimental testing. Industrial robots will be machinery, electronics, computers and other advanced technology rolled into one, in the manufacturing process, industrial robots have greatly promoted the process of manufacturing automation. Especially in the automotive industry, the robot has been automated to achieve welding, painting, assembly and other processes.

In the current manufacturing transformation and upgrading of the big situation, synergies and reducing consumption, green manufacturing and other requirements began to be gradually attention. Mapping to the foundry industry that is, from the traditional steel materials are gradually transformed into aluminum alloy, magnesium alloy and other light alloy materials. Depending on the performance, aluminum is widely used. Aluminum alloy in the traditional casting environment, dust, noise, exhaust emissions at random, to the environment has brought great pressure. But from the 21st century, the robot into the foundry industry, these problems are gradually resolved. For example, to achieve the whole process of the use of robots to achieve the spray painting, soup, picking and other operations, the traditional high-efficiency die-casting, casting size and high precision characteristics are particularly prominent.

The traditional Kunshan foundry model is hand-core - caster mold - hand-spoon to take aluminum liquid pouring - casting machine flip product solidification - manual open top - hand-picked - hand coding - natural cooling - manual cleaning - transport Detection. From this process description, we can see that the traditional casting methods to people-oriented, which cast the technical level of workers demanding, a slight deviation that will affect the quality of castings.

Aiming at this problem, all over the world are trying to solve through the development of new machinery and equipment. Some Chinese enterprises have developed a robot gravity pouring automated production lines, monorail robots, dual-track robot gravity pouring automated production lines, elevated overhead track robot casting automatic production line. One monorail robot, dual-track robot gravity pouring automated production line is mainly for different categories and requirements of the product, can be very flexible on the production line layout and adjustment. The overhead casting line of the robot is based on the whole casting process, and it is suitable for high-volume production.

At the same time, for the smooth operation of the production of machinery, but also for the machine supporting the manufacturing management system (MES), through the Internet of things, the Internet, industrial automation and other information technology, to achieve the workshop people, machines, materials, law, etc. Of the "smart casting."