Standardized Vocabularies for Assembly Systems Modelling and Automation Alternatives Description

Anas Salmi (1) , Pierre David (1) , Eric Blanco (2) , Joshua D. Summers (3)

1 G-SCOP_GCSP - Gestion et Conduite des Systèmes de Production
2 G-SCOP_CC - Conception collaborative
3 CEDAR

The aim of this research is to support assembly lines designers in conceiving new processes with optimal automation levels selection. Several alternatives with various automation options may exist. Graphic representations and analyses of the different designs are needed. The finality is to offer a quick, exhaustive, and reliable way of modelling alternatives based on a given product design. In this sense we propose a new assembly tasks vocabulary to be combined to an existing lower layer vocabulary of elementary motions and a graphic modelling language. These developments deal with an existing automation decision approach as an extension allowing to overcome identified gaps and to ease its implementation and computerization. The proposal facilitates assembly systems alternatives generation with automation options consideration based on an initial representation. The generated alternatives are then subject to further analyses with regard to automation criteria and performance indicators considering planned production targets.

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Anas Salmi, Pierre David, Eric Blanco, Joshua D. Summers. Standardized Vocabularies for Assembly Systems Modelling and Automation Alternatives Description. ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - IDETC/CIE 2016, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Aug 2016, Charlotte, NC, United States. ⟨hal-01326201⟩