A description of the factory automation products and robotics uses is given here:
- Vehicles and Motorcars
- Airplanes
- Building Materials
- Touch Systems
- Market Goods
- Carbon Goods
- Weight
- Snacks and Drinks
- Materials
- Pharmaceutical and medical devices (accurate drug concentrations, blood pressure, hearing aids and heart rate monitoring)
- Robotic Appliances
- Electronics & Conductors
Microelectronics Automation and Robotics Applications. Here is a list of the microelectronics automation and robotics applications:
- Microwave tool
- Photographs
- FRID
- Satellite Materials
- Science Tool
- Checkers and Monitors
- ·Wireless Networking Elements
Four Types of Factory Automation Systems. There are currently four distinct types of automation systems in service, each with one different purpose:
CIM:
Comprehensive integration of plant and industrial operations by computerisation is the automation of industrial production. Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) CIM programs have the following components:
- Automated cranes and moveable systems
- Optical-system control development project
- Computer assisted design CAD and computer aided engineering (CAM)
- Computer-supported preparation
- Development and machine driven scheduling
- Flexible Machine Systems
- Robotic devices
Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS):
Flexible automation systems are expanding the functionality of programmable devices to allow for improvements at or with minimal time loss. Via lightweight systems a range of products may be handled in medium sized lots.
Programmable:
Programmable automation systems require process modifications and rearrangements to accommodate adjustments in performance and improvements. Numeric controller devices are often used by a computer system to generate batches of particular items. You may pick up a hundred or a few thousand items. Programmable automation systems match the sequential production with similar items to enhance performance. Programmable control lines have non-productive loops for swapping equipment and configuring batch reprogrammes.
Stiff, rough or rigid:
In defined control systems, machinery determines cycle sequence. With minimal effort these systems may be changed or modified. Technology is typically limited to an item of broad scale, for example cars.
