Gathering of necessary knowledge for the analysis of automatic assemblability and packability of the products, selecting of standard and design of non-standard components for the machinery, integration of components into the system, programming and control of the automatic assembly and/or packing system

Student responsibilities:

Class attendance, project making and submission, exam

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Two written tests (optional), project preparation and submission, written and oral exam

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

1 . Design a product and its packaging by a computer

2 . Assess the assemblability and packability of a product

3 . Predict, choose, recommend and/or develop components and technical solutions of an automatic assembly and/or packing process

4 . Design an integrated system for automatic assembly and/or packing by a computer

5 . Present own project work

Lectures

1. Place of assembly and packing in the production process, Connection with manufacturing processes and transport and distribution system

2. Levels of assembly and packing, Product (assembly components and packaging) design for assembly and packing

3. Planning methodology for automatic assembly and packing systems, Making of an automatic process plan

4. Automatic assembly and packing equipment, devices and machines; Containers, Non-vibratory feeders, Vibratory feeders

5. Feeders with robots and vision systems, Feed tracks, Escapements

6. Manipulators and robots, Grippers and clamping devices, Force and torque sensors

7. Vision systems

8. Knowledge test in written, Transport equipment

9. Closures and cappers

10. Powder fillers, Liquid and solid filling systems

11. Coding devices and other equipment

12. Programming and control, Programmable logic controllers (PLCs)

13. Software support for the design, programming and control of automatic assembly and packing systems

14. Virtual design of automatic assembly and packing systems

15. Knowledge test in written

Exercises

1. Assigning of student project, CAD modelling of product and packaging

2. Analysis of product assemblability

3. Product packability analysis

4. Plans of automatic assembly and packing

5. Principal technical solutions for the functions of automatic assembly and packing processes

6. Elaboration of technical solutions -- calculations and designs

7. Elaboration of technical solutions -- calculations and designs

8. Elaboration of technical solutions -- calculations and designs

9. Virtual design of components of automatic assembly and packaging system

10. Virtual design of components of automatic assembly and packaging system

11. Robot programming

12. PLC programming

13. Virtual design of assembly and packing system

14. Virtual design of assembly and packing system

15. Student project submission

Compulsory literature:

1. Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst, Winston A. Knight, CRC Press, 2010, p. 0-0

2. Assembly Automation and Product Design, Geoffrey Boothroyd, CRC Press, 2005, p. 0-0

3. Fundamentals of Packaging Technology, Walter Soroka, IoPPress, 2009, p. 0-0

4. The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology, Kit L. Yam (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, 2009, p. 0-0

Recommended literature:

5. Handbook of Package Engineering, Joseph F. Hanlon, Robert J. Kelsey, Hallie Forcinio, CRC Press, 1998, p. 0-0

6. Disassembly Automation, Supachai Vongbunyong, Wei Hua Chen, Springer, 2015, p. 0-0