Design of an Intelligent Protection Shield

For practical studies in the field of production engineering and automation the University of Applied Sciences Tampere provides their students with access to industrial machinery. Among others a robot cell with an ABB robot ‘IR2600’ and welding machine ‘Fronius CMT500’ is available. The overall objective is to improve the usability of the robot for teaching purposes and increase the quality of teaching lessons. To reach this aim a television screen, which makes the screen of the robot control panel visible to the group, should be installed inside the robot cell. That implied the purpose of this bachelor thesis - the design of an intelligent protection shield, there the television screen needed a cover against the welding sparks. Furthermore a controllable drivetrain for the protection had to be created. The methodical design process described in the VDI 2221 set the approach for the development of the intelligent protection shield. Additional design rules related to the chosen production methods were researched and the properties of usable materials for the construction were analyzed and compared. The result of the design process were proved production documents like part lists, technical drawings and circuit diagrams. With this documents the implementation of the installation of the television screen inclusive protection shield is possible. Considerably more work will need to be done to make the control of the protection shield more autonomous. Aside from that the achievement of the overall objective to improve the teaching purposes has to be evaluated