Gathering of necessary knowledge for the analysis of automated assemblability 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 system.

Student responsibilities:

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

Performed on the basis of: - two periodic written examinations, 50 %; - the project, 40 %; - monitoring the presence and commitment of students, 10 %. In the event that a student does not pass all periodic written examinations, but neatly fulfills other obligations, the student may access written and oral exam.

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

Coverage of quality: - immediately in the classroom, in direct communication with the students (student questions and discussion); - periodically, according to the processed education content, by grading of written examinations and project; - exposition/discussing of results (scores) - instructing students how to achieve better results.

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

After a successful completion of the course, for a product, a student will be able to: - design a product by a computer; - critically assess the assemblability of a product for automatic assembly; - predict components of an automatic assembly process; - choose and/or design principal technical solutions of assembly equipment; - compare the variants of the process and technical solutions and recommend the most suitable; - design an integrated automatic assembly system by a computer.

Lectures

1. Introduction. Product design for assembly - DFA method for automatic and robotic assembly.

2. Automatic assembly process: definitions, symbols. Automatic assembly system planning methodology.

3. Process planning for automatic assembly.

4. Process planning for automatic assembly based on disassembly.

5. Elements of automatic assembly systems: containers, mechanical feeders.

6. Vibratory feeders. Robotic and vision system feeders.

7. Feed tracks. Escapements.

8. Manipulators and industrial robots for assembly.

9. Grippers and clamping devices.

10. Transport equipment. Vision systems.

11. Force and torque sensors. Other devices.

12. Programming and control of assembly machines.

13. Programmable logic controllers.

14. Software support for designing, programming and control of automated assembly systems.

15. Investment and assembly cost calculation.

Exercises

1. Defining of student project. Product design for assembly - DFA method for automatic and robotic assembly.

2. Product design for assembly - DFA method for automatic and robotic assembly.

3. Process planning for automatic assembly - example.

4. Process planning for automatic assembly - student work.

5. Calculation and selection of standard components for automatic assembly systems.

6. Design of non-standard system elements using CAD.

7. Design of non-standard system elements using CAD.

8. Assembly system design -- concept.

9. Computer design and simulation of assembly system.

10. Computer design and simulation of assembly system.

11. Computer design and simulation of assembly system.

12. Computer design and simulation of assembly system.

13. Programmes for Programmable Logic Controller: statement list, ladder logic -- examples.

14. Programmes for Programmable Logic Controller: statement list, ladder logic -- student work.

15. Robot programming.

Compulsory literature:

G. Boothroyd: Assembly automation and product design, CRC Press, 2010.

S. Y. Nof, W. E. Wilhelm, H.-J. Warnecke: Industrial Assembly, Chapman & Hall, 1997.

A. Redford, J. Chal: Design for assembly: Principles and practice, ISBN 0-07-7078381, McGraw Hill, 1994.

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