In this book
for the optimization of assembly conveyor lines we are dealing with series part
production featured by a medium complexity degree and a medium number of
individual components and assembly technique alternatives. Modern production
techniques for medium to large series products or mass production usually
involve assembly conveyor lines. They still use hand labour more or less
automated. The aim is to have monotonous and similar in type operations or such
causing fatigue, stress and production traumas, gradually replaced by automated
assembly cycles, means and techniques. This usually widely involves industrial
robots and handlers. Higher productivity, lower cost and higher quality of
assembled products are usually required.
Recently,
latest assembly techniques for simpler or more complicated products in
engineering, device manufacturing and electronics involve computer-aided
automated assembly means in Flexible Automated Production Lines or other types
of automated conveyor lines, which provide full automation and human labour
replacement. Assembly alternatives involving automation, and mechanisation,
programmable and adaptive control have been analyzed in Chapters 3–5.
Practically, this means no large investment in the modernization and expansion
of the production capacity and the product’s nomenclature.
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