Evaluation of factory layouts can currently be carried out by experts or by means of simulation models. The review by an expert can be carried out quickly and with little effort, but the assessment is only qualitative and subjective in nature. A quantitative, objective evaluation is possible by simulation models. However, these are more expensive and time-consuming than the expert review. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs) simulation models are often too great a financial or capacitive load. To fill this gap, a research project enables a low-maintenance quantitative and therefore objective evaluation of factory layouts. The basis for this are the appropriate modeling of the factory layout and the calculation rules, which will be presented by two examples..
factory evaluation, factory planning, layout review
The proportion of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power increases. As a result, the energy has to be consumed when it is available. With dynamic electricity tariffs or trades on the power exchange customers are moved to reduce energy consumption when prices are high.
manufacturing control, energy costs, electricity prices
In order to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to use cross-wedge rolling in the future, existing barriers have been eliminated. For this purpose, a method was developed to enable the design of cross wedge tools using software support. For two demonstrator components, hip implant and common rail, cross-wedge rolling processes were designed. With the cross-wedge rolled preforms, flash-reduced forging sequences could be designed for both demonstrator components. In order to be able to roll the parts industrially at low cost, a cross wedge rolliing machine was designed, manufactured and built at the forging company. The complete process chain of the hip implant was successfully tested.
cross wedge rolling, forming machine, ressource efficiency, hip implant, common rail
This article describes the necessity of considering temporal dynamics in the arrangement of assembly areas for large-scale products. This is justified by the fact that the available area represents a bottleneck and thus using of an intelligent arrangement of the areas can lead to an increased utilization of the factory.
XXL-products, assembly area arrangement
Considering production planning and control, lot sizing is a very important task. Lot sizes are usually resorted to lot size dependent order and storage costs. However, models for lot sizes ignore the aspect of lot size dependent maintenance costs. For forging companies the tool wear has a great economic importance, because the tooling costs represents a major factor in production costs.
production planning and control, lot sizing, process stability
Flashless crankshafts can be produced within four steps: cross wedge rolling, lateral extrusion, multi-directional forging and final forging. One improvement is to shorten the process by leaving out the lateral extrusion which can lead to different defects such as folds and flash. To investigate the influence of the cross wedge rolling on the multi-directional forging serval process parameters were varied. A tool concept was designed which enables a direct combination without defects and instructions for tool designing are given. The aim ist to find the process border of a parameter field in which no defects develop.
cross wedge rolling, multi-directional forging, crankshaft forging without flash
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) with autonomous behavior and decentralized human-machine interaction (HMI) are suitable for use in logistics. To facilitate natural interaction, HMI may involve both speech and gesture control. This paper presents a new cognitive approach based on electroencephalography (EEG) for multimodal HMI combining speech and gesture control for AGVs used in logistics. The results indicate that implicit EEG-based measures such as alertness and relaxation significantly affect speech control performance. Consequently, monitoring the user's cognitive workload during logistic operations may lead to a substantial improvement in work performance.
logistics, cognitive robotics, electroencephalography
Due to the continuous expansion of renewable energy sources manufacturing companies are confronted with steadily rising as well as more and more volatile electricity prices. The current lack of energy storage technologies leads to a dependency on the energy supply and, consequently, to a significant increase in manufacturing costs. This article describes a new approach to planning cost-optimized production programs with the targeted use of stock levels as storage solution for in the production process employed energy.
production program planning, energy costs, energy storage, inventory
In multistage hot forging processes, the preform shape is the parameter mainly influencing the final forging result. Nevertheless, the design of multistage hot forging processes is still a trial and error process and therefore time-consuming. The quality of developed forging sequences strongly depends on the engineer's experience. To overcome these obstacles, this paper presents an algorithm for solving the multi-objective optimization problem when designing preforms. Cross wedge rolled (CWR) preforms were chosen as subject of investigation. An evolutionary algorithm is introduced to optimize the preform shape taking into account the mass distribution of the final part, the preform volume and the shape complexity. The developed algorithm is tested using a connecting rod as a demonstration part. Based on finite element analysis, the implemented fitness function is evaluated, and thus the progressive optimization can be traced.
preforming optimization, hot forging, evolutionary algorithms, cross wedge rolling
In the future, common-rails can be produced with significantly less material - thanks to a new forging process, which was developed by the IPH in cooperation with partners from all over Europe. Using cross wedge rolling (CWR) as a preforming step with a following final forging step the part can be produced with significantly less flash than before. Especially for the demands of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), IPH designed a very compact CWR machine for flat-dies that pays off even for small batches. It is the first machine of its kind which will be used under industrial conditions: A Turkish forging company wants to manufacture preforms for hip implants.
cross wedge rolling, flashless, preform, machine
In today's production and logistics systems automated guided vehicle systems (AGVS) play a central role for the Realization of a powerful internal material transport. Through the use of cognitive technologies industiral trucks should be enabled, similar to humans, to respond flexibly to changes in physical environment and organizational changes in the workflow. This creates interactive AGV, which are superior to currently available conventional AGV because they can adapt their behavior independently and flexibly to changing production environments and requirements. As part of this the current high implementation effort for AGVS can be reduced at the same time.
AGVS, gesture control, voice control
This presentation explains the results of the research project "FTF out of the box" and especially goes into the developed man-machine interface for automated guided vehicles (AGV), which was realized by a voice and gesture control.
man-machine interface, voice control, gesture control, AGV
The lecture presents small-scale, multi-directional conveyor modules that implement the material flow of goods using a distributed, decentralized control. They are connected to form a transport matrix. In addition to the decentralized control the used hardware is described.
decentralized control, route planning, transport matrix
Thousands of wind turbines need to be dismantled and replaced in the next years. The owners of the wind parks have to pay millions to handle this. How you can dismantle quickly, at a low price and ecologically friendly, is part of a research project of the Institut für Integrierte Produktion Hannover (IPH). The huge dismantling wave will start in the next years.
dismantling networks, wind turbines
The lecture presents a method for the automated design and calculation of progressive dies. The basis is an automated CAD modeling of progressive dies. From the created CAD models characteristics are derived, which are used as input parameters for prediction models to predict the tool costs.
tool making, quotation costing, data mining, prediction
The implementation of interactive assistance systems such as data glasses is a further step towards the smart factory to master the complexity in production and logistics by increasing customer requirements. To demonstrate the potential and the benefits of these technologies to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), a compendium was developed as part of the research project 4.0 Ready, which provides an overview of existing assistance systems. During the project maturity models are developed to support SMEs in holistically and systematically planning and controling the implementation of interactive assistance systems.
interactive assistance systems, industry 4.0, maturity models, data glasses
The presentation introduced the research project FTF out of the Box to the audience. The presentation focused on the speech- and gesture-based control of automated guided vehicles that was develeped by IPH.
digitalization, automated guided vehicles
The presentation introduced the research project FTF out of the Box to the audience. The presentation focused on the speech and gesture control develeped by IPH as well as the project results developed by Jungheinrich AG.
digitalization, automated guided vehicles
Automated guided vehicle systems (AGVS) are an example of high-performance production systems in intralogistics and in many areas of internal material transportation. The essential function of an AGVS is the automatic control of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) which can be equipped with application-specific load handling devices ( e. g., telescopic forks or lift tables). Therefore an AGV is used in different application fields such as pallet transport, installation or commissioning. In this project, a speech and gesture control and autonomous navigation for AGV are implemented.
AGV, speech control, gesture control, autonoumous navigation
Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) with autonomous behavior and decentralized human-machine interaction (HMI) are suitable for use in logistics. To facilitate natural interaction, HMI may involve both speech and gesture control. This paper presents a new cognitive approach based on electroencephalography (EEG) for multimodal HMI combining speech and gesture control for AGVs used in logistics. The results indicate that implicit EEG-based measures such as alertness and relaxation significantly affect speech control performance. Consequently, monitoring the user's cognitive workload during logistic operations may lead to a substantial improvement in work performance.
logistics, cognitive robotics, electroencephalography
