Automation through integrated robotics will be the focus of the “Smart&Human Factory” event to be held from 31 January to 2 February 2019 at the Technology Center of the Scm Headquarters, in Rimini. The leading producer of secondary woodworking machinery will host an exclusive presentation of its new systems – flexible, modular and easily reconfigurable, designed to provide an increasingly effective, quick response to the challenges of mass customization.
The Open House summarises the goal of the new Scm product range: to supply the most “user-friendly” automation technology which, besides considerably streamlining the factory layout, making it more efficient, also creates a new model of interaction among humans, robots and machines, according to an open, safe cells design. All this with the option to reconfigure the production process whenever this is necessary, to quickly process increasingly smaller “order to production” batches.
A new “smart and human” factory – also making progress in terms of work flow: risky and repetitive human tasks are minimised and operators are able to focus on higher added value tasks.
SCM offers its customers a wide range of solutions. Flexible cells served by industrial anthropomorphic robots for repetitive and low added value tasks. An ideal solution for sawblade cutting or sawing, milling, drilling and edge banding or for workpiece sequence rearranging between one process phase and the next; Collaborative Islands, in which humans and collaborative robots (cobots) work side by side, sharing the available work space safely, without the need for enclosures or similar systems. The cobots are used in the final process stages, such as assembly, hardware insertion, glue dispensing and surface finishing; Flexible interconnections of machining cells and assembly islands through Amr – Autonomous Mobile Robots for just in time and just in sequence management and optimisation of all process logistics flows. A leap forward compared to the traditional self-driving vehicles of the past: in this case, no artificial references such as tapes or reflectors are needed, because the Amr’s are able to autonomously orient themselves in space – identifying the surrounding environment and selecting the most efficient route to their destination while safely avoiding obstacles, including human ones. This enhances returns on investment and route reconfiguration flexibility, in line with process modularity requirements – in addition to streamlining maintenance tasks; “Master Watch” Supervision software to manage and monitor the state of each product being machined throughout the process. Panel cutting, edgebanding and drilling phases are thus optimised to obtain the same results as in standard production processes; orders are then put back together at the end of the process, delaying customisation until this stage. This avoids huge quantities of logistically scattered items and helps minimise waste and rejects; IoT: the innovative “Maestro connect” platform makes the most of the “Internet of Things” concept potential. A data collection and analysis system based on Scm technologies, it ensures, on the one hand, full control over the production flow and, on the other, the implementation of smart and predictive maintenance models. Among the advantages granted by the system are: increased productivity and decreased downtime, improved and continuous operating cost control, lower maintenance costs and the ability to monitor machine parameters and performance in real time, anywhere and at any time, so as to be able to always correct any malfunction in an increasingly timely manner (smart maintenance).
Our flexible and reconfigurable systems and Supervision Software are designed to revolutionise the entire production system, optimising the resources used and reducing waste, rejects and retooling requirements during product changeovers. Moreover, plant shuttles allow for the most efficient management of all the process-related logistic flows, eliminating low added value tasks required from the human staff, such as the need to recover all the pieces scattered throughout the factory. The introduction of robotic automation also reduces human personnel requirements, in addition to greatly simplifying the work required from operators and relieving them of dangerous activities.
This Scm event will also be an opportunity to present the new Nesting Cnc machining centres – designed to combine high productivity and maximum versatility in shaped panel cutting.
