C4 - Innovation in Production Systems Student: David Raba Snchez Exercise: Paper reading. Comments and presentation.

2nd Assignment

Virtual manufacturing for press line monitoring and diagnostics

Amos H.C. Ng, Josef Adolfsson, Martin Sundberg, Leo J. De Vin.!Centre for Intelligent Automation, University of Skvde, Sweden. International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture 48 (2008) p. 565575 Abstract This paper presents the work done on using of virtual manufacturing for press line monitoring and diagnostics. The paper introduces Virtual manufacturing, or manufacturing simulation and the three domains in which can be divided: product domain, process domain, and resource domain. It contains an introduction to virtual manufacturing, divided into a general part on modelling and simulation, verification, validation and acceptance, as well as a specific part on the use of simulation for sheet metal products, processes and processing equipment. Content VM is a collective name for a variety of modelling and simulation tools, techniques and applications that has been used in some stages of the product development (machinery building). This stages covers from operational planning, to service & maintenance and decommissioning. Authors sustain that VM can be a strong decision support tool for manufacturing system lifecycle management. This paper represents one of the contributions made in the field of Virtual manufacturing done by this Sweden group of the University of Skvde. They work within the framework of the MASSIVE project with support of some industrial partners (AP&P, DELFOi, Volvo, Euromaint Industry). In the firsts sections of this paper, they present a wide explanation on VM definitions in the field of sheet metal applications. In the following sections, a real case in AP&T (industrial partner) of their implementation is explained.

BITM 2010

13/12/2010

C4 - Innovation in Production Systems

2nd Assignment

The main objective is to include VM service not only in the design stage with the study of failure modes, but in a on-line situation where VM can contribute in monitoring the running machinery, facilitating human supervision and data acquisition. It also contribute on simulate machinery reconfiguration before the real setup and program upload. A key feature of the system is 3-D graphical simulation with I/O synchronisation, which have hard implications in data acquisition and signalling actuators that should be done accurately in real-time. Its VM implementation has been developed taking into account kinematic models and realistic animations in order to provide a real interaction with machinery. Sensors included in the platform and allowing internet-based reconfiguration. All the system have to deal with Information Fusion techniques in order to provided not only a remotely controlled system, but a decision support system that monitorize, simulate and provide information in realtime about the working platform. This simulation, jointly the real information of the working behaviour of the machinery, provides also a tool to improve SMED procedures by reviewing the reconfigurations done. Also provides a virtual platform to train operators, simulating failure/awareness situations where they could be involved in the real environment. This type of system is particularly useful for system integrators and machine builders that install press lines and press cells world-wide and need to guarantee a high level of availability of the installed machinery. Tools developed in this project make use of standard software tools to provide great flexibility in development process. It have to be notice that the whole system development contains the generic principles and techniques of they VM real-time proposal, but the customization process to other platforms could suppose huge efforts, because the are not presenting a generic framework to develop VM machineries but a particular application in which the technique has been applied. As I previously said this contribution is part of a large technology transfer (TT) project where some industrial partners has been involved. MASSIVE project is a project focused on provide an innovative Service & Maintenance facility to be sold jointly at the same time of the machinery decommissioning. Apart from the business model related to this facilities, it could be also interesting to know which was the relationship between this firms with the university and its researchers and TT units, but maybe this is another paper. BITM 2010 13/12/2010