Automated assembly lines represent the peak of modern productivity, tracing back to Germany’s ‘Black Light Factory’ (Industry 4.0).
Today, with human-machine collaboration, AI, and other high-tech advancements, 'smart manufacturing' has become an unstoppable trend across industries.
Jeenoce assemble a team of experts from leading non-standard automation companies in Europe and the US.
This aligns with the trend of smart manufacturing and offers the ultimate 'cost reduction and efficiency' solution for customers facing challenging economic conditions.
An automated assembly line integrates various production processes using industrial robots, robotic arms, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), and other automation equipment.
This setup replaces traditional manual assembly lines, which are often inefficient, imprecise, error-prone, and labor-intensive.
The primary goals of automation are to enhance product quality, increase production capacity, and reduce labor costs.
Henry Ford introduced this concept in the early 20th century, reducing automobile assembly time from 12 hours to 1 hour.
Since then, emerging technologies have continually enhanced efficiency, leading to Industry 5.0, where over 100,000 parts can be installed in seconds.
Automated assembly lines are adaptable to many industries, including automotive (e.g., body welding), electronics (e.g., SMT production), food and medical (e.g., aseptic canning), and aerospace (e.g., engine welding).
Why are automated assembly lines the future of manufacturing?
Productivity drives human progress, and automated assembly lines are key to breaking through current production limits, whether it is the invention of tools or energy replacement, the reason is to continuously improve productivity, and the only way to break through the production capacity of the current era is the automated assembly line, and with the newer technologies, such as AI intelligence, controllable nuclear fusion, antigravity magnetic levitation and other technological innovations, the automated assembly production line body is bound to Once again usher in a wave of capacity breakthroughs, leading human civilization to a farther time and space.
Automated Assembly Execution System
Positioning and Gripping
Adopting SCARA 6-axis articulated arm, Delta and other industrial robots with vision recognition system and sensors, it can accurately identify parts of different shapes and sizes and complete the gripping and positioning of the substitute parts for placing them to the designated work station.
Benefit: It replaces manual labor, significantly shortening cycle times and achieving precision beyond human capability (±0.05mm).
Fastening and Connecting
Automatically completes the process operations such as screwing, riveting, welding (including spot welding and laser welding), gluing, press-fitting, and snap assembly, etc., and accurately controls the strength by force sensors, and then combines with the vision system for real-time monitoring of the quality of the whole process.
Benefit: Avoiding the problem of strength caused by human operation, and improving the overall yield rate.
Material supply and transfer
Through vibration plate, conveyor, silo and AGV/RGV, etc., it can automatically complete the supply, sorting and delivery of parts according to the production demand, and accurately deliver the materials to each production station.
Benefits: Effectively shorten the waiting time for materials, control the inventory of raw materials while maintaining uninterrupted production lines, and reduce the pressure on storage.
Zero Defect Quality Assurance System
Adaptive Optimization Function
Precision sensors continuously collect key data, such as vibration and temperature, during operation, which will be transmitted to the system's AI algorithm center in real time to directly identify various subtle changes and possible fluctuations, and then dynamically adjust the equipment's speed, pressure, temperature and other core parameters according to the preset model to ensure the system's normal operation.
Advantages: High quality and high efficiency can be maintained, and the life of the equipment can be extended to a certain extent by avoiding the overload and overcharge caused by unexpected situations.
Online Inspection Function
Through the integration of 2D or 3D machine vision, laser measurement, sensors (pressure, current, displacement, etc.), real-time inspection of key dimensions, appearance defects (e.g., scratches, burrs), and functional performance (e.g., sealing, on-off).
Advantages: Replaces traditional sampling inspection 100% identification and interception of defective products, to avoid flowing into the subsequent process causing greater losses.
Data Tracing Function
Records the process parameters of each process in real time through the serial number of the bound product and writes them into the database, supporting real-time alarms, cause tracing and SPC statistical analysis (a management technology that monitors, analyzes and optimizes the production process or business process with the help of statistical methods).
Advantages: Through the whole process of data monitoring and statistics, you can set the position and responsibility, directly find out where the problem is to update the production process or reduce the impact of the bad link, to get more revenue.
Predictive Maintenance Function
Real-time monitoring of the operating status of motors, bearings and other key components (including current, vibration spectrum and temperature and other parameters), and analyzing the data through algorithms to predict when component failures are likely to occur and issue preventive maintenance reminders.
Advantages: Reduces the probability of sudden downtime, limits maintenance costs to a controllable range, and reduces plant losses.
Flexible production system
Using modular tooling and one-key program switching, we can complete product changeovers in under ten minutes.
Advantages: Geometric times higher efficiency than traditional production line changeover, minimize the loss of production line stoppage due to line changeover.
Mixed line production system
The system automatically adjusts process parameters and material supply to support mixed-model production on the same line.
Advantages: Help customers to maximize the cost savings of the line and support the production needs of products with different cycles.
PS: Human-machine collaboration projects need to strictly comply with the “people-oriented” principle, need to meet the relevant safety laws and regulations (such as ISO 13849), human-computer collaboration workstations need to ensure that the interaction is safe through force feedback technology, and to play the complementary advantages of human-machine to reduce labor intensity.
From the general points, automated assembly production line is divided into fully automated and semi-automated, Automated assembly lines can be fully automated, requiring no human intervention, or semi-automated, combining automation with manual labor for cost efficiency, just need to be equipped with a number of maintenance engineers can be, that is, the earliest “Industry 4.0” concept, and semi-automated production line is meant to be after the engineer Semi-automated production line means that after the engineers found that some processes are suitable for automation and another part is suitable for manual labor, the overall cost of the lowest efficiency of a production line program.
And from the details can be divided into fixed automation to deal with specific processes, flexible automation to deal with variable processes, the need for frequent switching in mass production to change the process, process scenarios such as programmable automation and flexible automation and other classifications.
Automated assembly line is mainly composed of industrial robots (or called robotic arm), PLC module (programmable logic controller, with the same set of standardized programming system to ensure synchronous operation of the line, real-time detection and control, etc.), various types of sensors, limit switches (limit of mechanical movement, positioning or status feedback), encoders (position, angle, speed and other data into a computer or control system to identify the digital signal), machine vision systems, conveyor systems and other components integrated. digital signals), machine vision systems, conveyor systems and other components integrated.
Lean Manufacturing
A Japanese business tool that reduces waste to improve productivity, but also applies to the design of automated assembly lines, how to reduce unnecessary waste and thus improve customer productivity and save resources is what every non-standard automation engineer has to think about in the work session.
Comprehensive reliability
Ensures systems are reliable throughout their lifespan, a key measure of a service provider's quality.
Cost-benefit analysis
Comprehensive reliability is to consider whether the non-standard automation service provider is “qualified”, and whether the cost can be compressed to a certain extreme, to bring the economic benefits to a certain height is the key to measure whether the service provider is “excellent”.
Labor Suitability
The access to automated assembly line is to let the equipment to do high-precision and high physical work, rather than letting the people to do this work, and the line to do the work of control thinking, it is to solve the problem of how the people in the case of industry 5.0 and automated line of collaboration and considerations.
Safety and Compliance
Safety is the bottom line, all the design is“human-centered”to start, and then is to ensure equipment safety, product safety, and compliance with laws and regulations is to ensure that your “non-standardized” things can be landed, approved by the official government you can run! The purpose is also to ensure safety.
We have over 100 senior engineers with deep experience in world-class non-standard automation projects
Whether it is a complex process problems or special scenarios demand can be quickly matched with the optimal solution
Covering mechanical, electrical, software and other fields of talent to provide customers with a full range of technical support
We deliver reliable equipment that meets German enterprise standards
From full automation to semi-automation to adapt to the capacity needs of different industries and enterprises
A team of JEENOCE engineers can customize the solution according to the industry characteristics to reduce the cost of adaptation
Through the“modular tooling + program switching”to enhance the utilization of the equipment
Support for mixed-line production can be in the same line at the same time to deal with different products on the same line at the same time.
Dynamically adjusts production parameters to keep the production line running optimally around the clock
Timely discovery of product defects and corrections to reduce the rate of defective products to reduce the cost of rework and material wastage
Records and traces the information of materials, process parameters, operators, etc., in the whole process of production
Pre-empts the hidden danger of failures and proactively arranges for a maintenance plan to avoid sudden stoppages that lead to production interruptions
Lean manufacturing concepts throughout the entire design process to improve enterprise profitability
Tailor-made lean solutions to help customers achieve high-efficiency production goals at lower costs
Continuous optimization of the production system to help customers occupy a favorable position in the market competition
Comprehensive reliability analysis and cost-effectiveness considerations to achieve a balance between economy and excellence
Accurately grasp the industry pain points and quickly adapt to the complex needs of customers to provide efficient solutions
Custom-designed MES system significantly improves production management and reduces costs
Provide customers with predictable ROI and clear cost-benefit analysis to ensure the long-term benefits
Strictly follow the domestic and international standards and norms of R & D and manufacturing to ensure safety compliance
JEENOCE Positioning Solution Integrator can provide one-stop intelligent upgrading solutions according to your needs
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