Werkstück-zentrierte Rekonfiguration eines miniaturisierten Fertigungssystems

Providers and users of modern production equipment have - for instance when dealing with changes for more and more customized products - typical questions. "Is it still possible to manufacture a product on the same machine when the requirements change?" "How can the production process be optimized in terms of layout/setup, configuration, parameters, sequence, ...?" As several industrial projects within Fraunhofer IPA's Robot Systems Department showed, both of these questions are - among other things - answered by trial-and-error on the one hand and expertise and know how of application engineers on the other hand. The latter answer is supported by simulation tools where certain process parameters can be varied. Simulation in the field of product development aims at accelerating and optimizing the process of product development regarding costs and quality. But for answering the above mentioned questions, there is hardly any support offered by software solutions today easing this work