What are the misunderstandings in the transformation of automation equipment? How to avoid it?
Date：2020/10/24 Views：3275 【BACK】
At the beginning of the "robot revolution", many companies have embarked on the "no return" of automation, and factories seem to gradually become the development trend of future factories. However, the fully automated equipment assembly lines sporadically appear in large enterprises. Although the government has vigorously promoted the robot substitution policy, many enterprises have received subsidies from the state and just "air" the equipment in the production workshop.
Don't touch the five misunderstandings of automation transformation!
I have already used great efforts to transform the automation equipment. Why has little effect been achieved? You must know these five misunderstandings!
1. The introduction of robots means automation upgrades
The application of robots is one of the most representative aspects of automation upgrades. But it does not mean that it can solve all problems. Pneumatic hydraulic control and non-standard equipment automation is also one of the very important means to achieve automation. Especially for some special applications, which robots cannot solve, non-standard automation equipment is the answer. For automation upgrades, you must not just stare at the robots. Multiple channels are the best.
2. You can use the robot when you buy it
As a smart device, a robot is not simply installed and debugged for use. If you ignore the development (or secondary development) and application of robots, many robots will be unusable or improperly used. Take robots and sports players as an analogy. A group of good athletes (robots) plus a good coach (system integrator) is the key to winning the entire team (enterprise).
3. The automation upgrade can be done in one step
The real automation upgrade is not a simple station or machine replacement can be completed, but an extremely complex system engineering. Automation transformation needs to be done according to one's ability, starting from the more mature automation technology, starting from the parts of the factory that are in urgent need of upgrading and transformation, and gradually proceed, and it must not be achieved in one step.
4. Any process can be replaced by automation equipment
Products produced by automated production lines should have a sufficiently large output; product design and technology should be advanced, stable, and reliable, and remain basically unchanged for a long time. Not all processes are suitable for automation transformation. The use of automatic lines in mass and mass production has significant economic benefits.
5. The realization of automation transformation is the realization of Industry 4.0
The concept of Industry 4.0 and Made in China 2025 is so hot recently that many companies blindly follow suit. Manufacturing companies should pay more attention to the actual technology and solutions to problems. When it develops into generalized management automation with information as the core technology, the Industry 4.0 era will also emerge.
Don't touch the five misunderstandings of factory automation transformation!
So, if an enterprise needs to use an industrial robot system, the first thing to do is to analyze its own production process and understand its own needs.
1. Analyze and understand your needs
01 Listen and understand your needs carefully
The use of an automated system to assemble the production workshop and conduct manufacturing is aimed at maximizing the efficiency ratio between product production and quality control. We need to go to the production department and be familiar with the production process. It is necessary to study which processes are the shortcomings of the production process, and which processes can be automated instead of manual.
Combine the short-term needs of the company with the long-term goals and analyze the return on investment based on this. Don't just look at today or a few years from now and decide what equipment you need to purchase.
02 Train and recruit talents
If you need to innovate technology, you must have corresponding technical personnel. The automated assembly workshop will inevitably have a lot of equipment, and the company's talents need to have the ability to learn quickly and be familiar with the integrator's system as soon as possible.
03 Clarify the responsible party
Both the integrator and the end user are responsible for ensuring the normality of the production process. Integrators need to provide equipment that meets customer requirements and expert-level guidance according to their needs. The customer is responsible for providing the relevant information required by the production equipment.
2. Choose a reliable system integrator
The industry of industrial robot automation integration has not been in the country for a few years. At present, there is no reliable integrator level certification in China, so we cannot protect our choices based on these associations or official certifications. So what kind of integrator is relatively reliable?
01 appropriate scale
As a robot system supplier, scale is very important. This is a large and comprehensive robot supplier, such as domestic Siasun, foreign ABB, system integration and robot body. It is also a small and sophisticated robot supplier with only a few employees, such as UR, such as KMT.
Big does not necessarily mean better, and small does not mean insufficient strength.
02 Professional field
A qualified integrator is aimed at industry application integration. They are not only familiar with industrial robots, but also need to understand the industry's production standards, production requirements, and production processes. A good robot company cannot make a good robot system. What integrators sell to customers must be robots that can produce customer products, not the robots themselves.
03 Professional engineer team and project management team
When contacting professional robot system integrators, their professional technicians or sales staff will generally provide detailed engineering management and implementation details, will listen to your needs, and suggest you to conduct a feasibility analysis or preliminary trial production . You can understand the composition of the integrator's technical staff during the trial production, and see if there are expert engineers with many years of work experience, or a large number of young fresh graduates.
04 Professional documents
Professional robot system integrators generally have their standard products as well as technical documents for their standard products. Generally for different customers, they will produce independent technical documents. If it is a foreign integrator, they will also provide translation documents, of course, this part may incur costs.
05 promised spare parts
Although the stability of industrial robots has made great progress in recent years, they are still machines. No one in the world has ever invented a perpetual motion machine or a machine that will never wear out. Therefore, your robot will still have some malfunctions. Therefore, you must understand whether your supplier can provide you with the spare parts you need.
06 Professional Service
If your company is a small and medium-sized enterprise, training a technician for this system is a huge expense. In other words, you may still rely on your supplier for most of the problems.
A professional system integrator will have a dedicated service department to deal with equipment service issues. They generally provide telephone support, email support, or their equipment is equipped with remote support functions.
07 clear warranty
The last thing you need to know is some questions about the warranty. What must be clear is the time limit of the warranty they provide, is the warranty based on three shifts, and the limited warranty time.
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