Recent trends in the robotization of the Japanese automotive industry

Yagi, Tadashi

doi:10.1108/01439910210449436

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“…A robot with embedded cables enables easy connection and reduces the variation in wiring between workers. Cable failure by wear occurs less frequently in this type of robot, and the period of service before cables need renewal is much longer (6 times in the Yaskawa paper) than that of an ordinary robot (Yagi, 2002) (Figure 1).…”

Section: Improvements In Established Robot Applicationsmentioning

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Industrial robots in the Japanese automobile industry – Robot equipment trends in a time of steady growth

Yagi¹

2006

Industrial Robot: An International Journal

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PurposeReports on trends in the design and application of robots in the Japanese automotive industry.Design/methodology/approachSurveys the business practices of Japanese automotive manufacturers and their plants in Japan and overseasFindingsSince, the 1990s, Japanese auto‐manufactures have expanded their main business activity in the overseas countries where they had to construct new factories with robot equipment. It was difficult because many new problems were experienced. But the production engineers devised the approach of improving efficiency in domestic factories and then quickly constructing overseas factories based on their experience and connections formed in the 80s. Incremental improvements in practices and the application of off‐line programming characterise recent developments.Originality/valueHighlights the technical and strategic developments by major robot users.

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Section: Improvements In Established Robot Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Industrial robots in the Japanese automobile industry – Robot equipment trends in a time of steady growth

Yagi¹

2006

Industrial Robot: An International Journal

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“…In the past decades, lightweight automation solutions based upon industrial robots have been widely used in the automotive industry (9) . On the one hand, they have been used mainly in welding and pick-and-place operations, driving their development toward good repeatability (typically < ±0.1mm).…”

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Light automation for aircraft fuselage assembly

Trabasso

Mosqueira

2019

Aeronaut. j.

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The ever-growing need to improve manufacturing processes has led recently to an increase in the number of automation solutions used to assemble aircraft structural elements. A process of interest to this industry is the alignment of fuselage sections, which is currently done either manually or by complex, expensive automated systems. The manual method introduces a significant production delay and most automated systems have limited flexibility. This article presents an integration solution implemented in an alternative low-cost, high-flexibility alignment robotic cell. The performance of an optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM) as feedback source for the adaptive control of a conventional industrial manipulator is assessed. Laser interferometry readings are used as reference. The contribution of the work lies in the execution of experiments based on the EN ISO 9283 standard (Manipulating industrial robots - performance criteria and related test methods) to determine the adequacy of the commercial off-the-shelf system to the tolerances and requirements of the fuselage alignment process at hand. The optimal configuration of the integrated system attained the nominal alignment position with an average accuracy of 0.16mm and $0.004^\circ$ , partially meeting the required tolerances, and the obtained values are nearly 16x better compared to a baseline, open-loop manipulator. These results serve as reference for the aerospace industry in the development of the next generation of tools and automated assembly processes.

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