AUTOMATION OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES WITH UTILISATION OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

Abstract

Industrial robots are important elements of automated production systems. Robots as programmable devices used in automatized batch or mass products production are often reprogramed to adapt themselves on the new product production changes. This time-consuming programming causes a decrease of manufacturing productivity. Therefore today robots can be reprogrammed by “offline” way too. The robot´s new control programme creation doesn´t limit the manufacturing process that is cur-rently in progress at the plant. In addition, offline programming contributes to reduction of the period of the new product production starting. The article presents our practical experiences with utilisation of offline programme Fanuc Roboguide for solution of tasks of automation of welding, deburring and assembling technologies by industrial robots.

Keywords

• automation of manufacturing technologies
• reprogramming
• industrial robots
• offline programming