Today, automation technology is perfectly applied in product manufacturing! Furthermore, it has given rise to a professional term—automated production line. The term is easy to understand literally. Today, we'll introduce the types and characteristics of automated production lines for your reference. Let's take a look!
Before introducing the design process of an automated production line, let's briefly understand what an automated production line is.
Automated production lines evolved from assembly lines. They not only require various machining devices on the line to automatically complete predetermined processes and flows, but also to automatically sort and even package workpieces during loading and unloading, ensuring they operate automatically according to prescribed procedures.
What are the uses of automated production lines?
In the 1980s, many factories and enterprises began to use computers for management, thus entering the era of factory automation (FA). In this era, automated lines, as core components of mechanical and electronic engineering, took into account the high-speed, high-performance and economic requirements of manufacturing and were rapidly popularized, opening a new chapter in modern industrial automation.
How to achieve automated production?
Automated production line technologies: drive technology, mechanical technology, sensing technology, control technology, human-machine interface technology, and network technology.
By using some auxiliary devices, various machining devices are connected in the process sequence, and the hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical systems are controlled to connect the actions of each part to complete the predetermined production task.
Types of automated production lines:
There are two typical types of automated production lines: one is the automated production line in the mechanical parts processing industry; the other is the automated assembly line for the production of various products after assembly.
Automated production lines can be divided into two types based on their structural form: automated production lines without internal component storage buffers and automated production lines with internal component storage buffers.
Characteristics of automated production lines:
1. Numerical control or computer control functions. The moving parts of automated equipment are controlled by digital signals, and the upper-level computer receives processing instructions and codes, enabling the automated non-standard equipment to process automatically.
2. Integration is possible. Automated processing equipment conforms to general standards and can achieve accurate and timely data communication and exchange, thereby coordinating production equipment, transportation and storage systems, and control systems.
3. Variability. Automated equipment has a certain degree of variability, which can adapt to the production of new products and shorten production preparation time.
4. High production efficiency. In addition to high variability, the processing equipment also has high production efficiency, good controllability and integration, meeting the needs of automated equipment in modern production.
