IMPROVED ROBOTIC DEVICE DRIVE SYSTEM- FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM (FMS)

With today's industry and new technology development, there are more demands on efficient and flexible system in the manufacturing system in order to have a productive and qualitative production. Plus, robotic and automation is the main element in the industry especially for the manufacturing factories. The innovation of flexible manufacturing system has been developed rapidly in the industry as the market become more intense and competitive. This report presents the improved robotic device drive system-flexible manufacturing system (FMS). Fundamentally, this project is an improvement of the previous project. The existing system is an integrated system of KUKA KR3 Robotic, OMRON C200HE PLC, sensors, and conveyors. The improvement is focused on the two main parts which are PLC programming and human machine interface of the system. The system developed is an application of robotic and PLC in the real manufacturing industry which is a pick-and-place system. It is a small scale FMS where the robotic arm will respond to the PLC command which has been programmed. By using the application of HMI, the user could control and monitor the pick-and-place system from PC. In order to understand and develop this project a thorough study of the robotic, PLC, FMS, and HMI as well as the hardware and software has been done. Then, the development of programming for PLC and HMI had been developed by using CX-programmer and Visual Basic 6.0 software