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Solutions provided by Przemysł 4.0 enable fast development of companies. The use of advanced technologies at a production department also requires relevant solutions for internal transport and storage.
Today we will see how logistic and assembling lines operate and are manufactured. The company Andrzejewski from Łódź manufactures individual devices and assembles them to form one line.
Assembling lines are simply a set of devices, including assembling stations, pick to light stations, automated stations, robot manipulators, and vision systems, connected by one or a set of conveyors with a control system. Logistic lines include conveyors, transfer systems and turntables cooperating with peripheral devices, such as packing and pick to light stations, wrappers, labelling devices and similar, also connected by one control system. However, in logistic lines the control system usually communicates with an IT system installed at customer’s factory.
Let’s have a closer look at one of such solutions. At this factory, an AGV collects components from a warehouse, which are then transported to an assembling line. To ensure a continuous supply of parts for the assembling department, a worker picks up individual orders and deliveries them to a special warehouse serviced using a trolley.
Previously, during one shift a trolley was operated by two workers, who had to handle current transport. The applied solution does not require a full attention of warehouse operators. They can prepare a stock of sets and place them in the buffer warehouse.
All functions of a designed line, its design, and types of devices with which it will cooperate are determined at a stage of conceptual works.
So now we go to the design department at the company Andrzejewski.
Here, both simple manual lines, as well as sophisticated automated solutions can be prepared. Everything depends on the needs of a plant placing an order.
Then the design is implemented at the production department. Individual components are prepared at CNC processing stations.
Meanwhile, automation specialists prepare software for a PLC controller. Later, the entire line is put together at the assembling department.
A control cabinet of the device is assembled. Its most important components include an inverter, a PLC controller, and an electrical circuit. A touchpad is also prepared.
Then it is time for functional tests of the assembled line. Using roller conveyors, a pallet is transferred to successive assembling stations. When a device is taken off, the pallet returns to a loading station. A line may also include a robot that would place components on a pallet.
A line can also be equipped with other sophisticated stations, such as a “pick to light” smart system for error elimination.
The system, of which we are integrators, is characterised by an extensive range of terminals, starting with simple strip terminals installed on warehouse racks, through terminals using photoelectric sensors or curtains for large products, up to terminals with shutters, physically preventing worker errors.
Finished devices can then be delivered to a customer. The company Andrzejewski prepares designs for production and warehouse sectors, and for developing e-commerce and co-packing sectors.
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