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Designing an Automated Assembly Workplace in a Simulation Environment

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Advances in Manufacturing III (MANUFACTURING 2022)

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Assembly is the most complex stage of the production process. This stage not only affects the quality and reliability of products, but also the ongoing production time, labor productivity and efficiency of the entire system. Therefore, any changes or improvements to the assembly phase need to be thoroughly tested before their implementation. This paper suggests a solution for the transition from manual to automated assembly using simulation. For this purpose, the manual assembly of cam switches is chosen. The focus is then on designing the automated workplace for the cam switches assembly. One of the key points of this paper is the use of simulation as a tool for production solutions. Using the method of quantifying assembly tasks complexity, the tasks which are suitable for further automation are defined, and the appropriate level of automation is defined too. Then the automated workplace is modelled in Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. The solution presented in this paper is relevant for process and production managers involved in planning a new assembly line or redesigning an existing one.

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This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-19-0590, by the projects KEGA 055TUKE-4/2020 granted by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.

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  1. Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies With a Seat in Prešov, Department of Industrial Engineering and Informatics, The Technical University of Košice, Bayerova 1, 080 01, Prešov, Slovak Republic

    Kateryna Kovbasiuk, Michal Balog & Kamil Židek

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    Agnieszka Kujawińska

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

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Kovbasiuk, K., Balog, M., Židek, K. (2022). Designing an Automated Assembly Workplace in a Simulation Environment. In: Trojanowska, J., Kujawińska, A., Machado, J., Pavlenko, I. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing III. MANUFACTURING 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99310-8_4

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