Intelligent cutter distribution system and distribution method
By designing an intelligent tool distribution system, the combination of cache cabinets, line-edge control cabinets and transmission belts is used to realize automated tool distribution and return, solving the problems of increased equipment downtime and high cost caused by manual round trips in traditional methods, and improving tool borrowing efficiency.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202411639522.6
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-11-18
- Publication Date
- 2025-04-22
AI Technical Summary
In the field of gas turbines, the traditional tool borrowing and return process requires manual round trip to the warehouse, resulting in increased equipment downtime, high management and auxiliary personnel costs, and low tool borrowing efficiency.
An intelligent tool distribution system is designed, including a cache cabinet, a line-side control cabinet and a transmission belt. It can automatically collect and scrap and store blades through cache truss manipulators and control truss manipulators, and reduce manual operations.
The automated tool distribution and return process is realized, which reduces equipment downtime, reduces management and auxiliary personnel costs, and improves tool borrowing efficiency.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] The present invention relates to a gas turbine machining device and method, in particular to a gas turbine machining tool distribution device and method. Background Art
[0002] In the field of gas turbines, the product characteristics are that the materials are difficult to process and the consumed tools need to be replaced frequently. The traditional method is for the operator to borrow new tools from the warehouse and return the old tools. Due to the large variety of gas turbine parts, the time for delivering tools accounts for a large proportion, which is bound to cause a certain amount of equipment downtime. Summary of the invention
[0003] The purpose of the present invention is to provide an intelligent tool distribution system and distribution method that can solve the problem of time-consuming and laborious round-trip travel to the warehouse each time a tool is borrowed or returned, thereby shortening the production change cycle, reducing management and auxiliary personnel costs, and improving tool borrowing efficiency.
[0004] The object of the present invention is achieved in that:
[0005] The present invention discloses an intelligent tool distribution system, which is characterized in that it includes a cache cabinet, a line-side control cabinet, and a conveyor belt. The cache cabinet includes a cache cabinet body, a cache touch screen, a scrap tool drawer, a blade box, a drawer-type storage location, and a cache truss manipulator. The cache touch screen is arranged on the upper front part of the cache cabinet body, the scrap tool drawer is arranged on the lower front part of the cache cabinet body, a drawer-type storage location is arranged in the cache cabinet body, the blade box is placed in the drawer-type storage location, the cache truss manipulator is arranged on the rear side of the drawer-type storage location, and the cache truss of the cache truss manipulator is connected to the conveyor belt. The line-side control cabinet includes a control cabinet body, a control storage location, a control touch screen, a storage and access drawer, and a control truss manipulator. The control touch screen is arranged on the upper front part of the control cabinet body, the storage and access drawer is arranged on the lower front part of the control cabinet body, the control storage location is arranged inside the line-side control cabinet, the control truss manipulator is arranged between the control storage location and the storage and access drawer, and the truss of the control truss manipulator is connected to the conveyor belt. The cache cabinet is located at the end of the main road of the conveyor belt, and the line-side control cabinet is located at the end of the branch road of the conveyor belt.
[0006] The tool intelligent distribution system of the present invention may also include:
[0007] 1. The conveyor belt is a closed structure.
[0008] 2. Rectangular grooves are arranged at both ends of the blade box, and a soft sponge structure is adopted inside.
[0009] 3. The drawer-type storage location can be pushed out and hung outside the cache cabinet for manual replenishment, or pulled out of the cache cabinet and automatically retrieved by the cache truss manipulator.
[0010] 4. The cache truss manipulator can automatically take and place blade boxes between the drawer-type storage location, conveyor belt and scrap tool drawer.
[0011] 5. The control truss manipulator can automatically take and place the blade box between the control storage location, storage drawer and conveyor belt.
[0012] 6. The storage and retrieval drawer can pop out of the line side control cabinet to manually store and retrieve the blade box.
[0013] The present invention provides a method for intelligently distributing cutting tools, which is characterized by:
[0014] Replenishing / removing blades: The warehouse keeper identifies the cache cabinet, selects the material code through the cache touch screen of the cache cabinet, and manually puts the blade box into the drawer position with the matching material code to replenish or remove the blades;
[0015] Configure storage location: Identify the warehouse keeper for the cache cabinet, select an empty cache location, and enter the material code and tool information for confirmation;
[0016] Pick up blades: The picker moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies himself to the line-side control cabinet, clicks to pick up blades, selects the material code on the control touch screen, controls the drawer-type storage location of the cache cabinet to automatically pull out, and automatically picks up the goods through the cache truss robot, places the blade box on the conveyor belt for transportation, and the line-side control cabinet controls the truss robot to pick up the goods from the conveyor belt and puts them in the access drawer for the operator to pick up;
[0017] Temporary storage of old knives: The operator moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies the identity of the line-side control cabinet, clicks on the control touch screen to temporarily store the old knives, notifies to open the storage drawer, manually stores them temporarily, automatically identifies empty storage locations for storage, and controls the truss manipulator to automatically clamp the blade box and place it in the control location;
[0018] Take out the old knife: The operator moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies the identity of the line-side control cabinet, selects the old knife material code on the control touch screen, and the line-side control cabinet controls the truss manipulator to automatically take the knife from the control location and place it in the access drawer for the operator to take;
[0019] Return of waste knives: The operator moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies himself to the line-side control cabinet, clicks "Return of waste knives" on the control touch screen of the line-side control cabinet, and the storage and retrieval drawer pops up to put the waste blades in. The blade box is clamped by the control truss robot and placed on the conveyor belt for transportation. The cache cabinet takes the goods from the conveyor belt through the cache truss robot and places them in the scrap tool drawer for centralized recycling.
[0020] The advantages of the present invention are as follows: the present invention can realize automatic collection, scrapping and storage of blades through a cache cabinet, a line-side control cabinet and a conveyor belt; the blade box can store and transport blades of various specifications with different shapes and sizes, thus avoiding the difficulty of having to manually go back and forth each time a knife is borrowed, saving the enterprise's labor cost and realizing the on-demand collection of blades at the bedside. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0021] Figure 1 It is a structural schematic diagram of the present invention;
[0022] Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a cache cabinet;
[0023] Figure 3 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of the line side control cabinet;
[0024] Figure 4a is a schematic diagram of the truss manipulator structure. Figure 4b b is a schematic diagram of the truss manipulator structure;
[0025] Figure 5a Schematic diagram of blade box a. Figure 5b Schematic diagram b of the blade box. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0026] The present invention is described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings:
[0027] Combination Figure 1-Figure 5bThe present invention includes a cache cabinet 1, a conveyor belt 3, a line-side control cabinet 2, and a management and control system. The cache cabinet 1 includes a drawer-type storage location 4, a blade box 5, a touch screen 6, a scrap tool drawer 7, and a truss manipulator. The touch screen 6 is arranged on the upper front part of the cabinet body and can be operated to realize human-computer interaction. The scrap tool drawer 7 is arranged on the lower front part of the cabinet body. The blade box 5 is placed inside the drawer-type storage location 4. Rectangular grooves are arranged at both ends of the blade box 5. A soft sponge structure is adopted inside to protect the tool from collision during transportation. The drawer-type storage location 4 can be pushed out and hung outside the cache cabinet 1 for manual replenishment, and can be pulled out in the cabinet for automatic pick-up by a truss manipulator. The truss manipulator is arranged on the rear side of the drawer-type storage location 4 in the cache cabinet 1. One end of the truss is connected to the conveyor belt 3, which can automatically pick up the goods in the drawer-type storage location 4, the conveyor belt 3, and the scrap tool drawer 7. The blade box 5 is taken and placed between the conveyor belt 3 and the scrap tool drawer 7; the line side control cabinet 2 includes a storage position 8, a touch screen 9, a storage and access drawer 10, and a truss manipulator. The touch screen 9 is arranged on the upper front part of the cabinet body and can be operated to realize human-computer interaction. The storage and access drawer 10 is arranged on the lower front part of the cabinet body, and the storage position 8 is arranged in the control cabinet 2. The truss manipulator is arranged between the storage position 8 and the storage and access drawer 10. One end of the truss is connected to the conveyor belt 3, which can automatically take and place the blade box between the storage position 8, the storage and access drawer 10 and the conveyor belt 3. The storage and access drawer 10 can pop out of the control cabinet 2 to manually store and take the blade box; the conveyor belt 3 is a closed structure with a width that can transport the blade box, and is mounted on the side of the machine tool; the management and control system can realize the functions of temporary storage, borrowing, returning, and scrapping of blades, and record relevant information.
[0028] The cache cabinet 1 is equipped with 100 storage locations 4, each storage location 4 can store 10 blade boxes 5, and can accommodate 1,000 new blade boxes 5. The size of the blade box 5 must meet the space size of 35mm long * 35mm wide * 12mm thick, and each tool box 5 can store one blade. The truss manipulator is equipped with a two-axis linear module, and the execution part is composed of a rotary cylinder, a cylinder with a guide rod, and a clamp, which can realize the functions of rotating, retracting, and clamping the blade box.
[0029] The line-side control cabinet 2 can accommodate 50 storage locations 8.
[0030] The main process of the intelligent distribution system of wire edge tools of the present invention is as follows:
[0031] Replenishment / removal of blades: The cache cabinet 1 identifies the warehouse keeper, selects the material code through the touch screen 6 of the cache cabinet 1 → hangs out the drawer-type storage location 4 with the matching material code → manually puts the blade box 5 in for replenishment or removal;
[0032] Configure storage location: Cache cabinet 1 to identify the warehouse keeper → click on empty storage location 4 → enter the material code and tool information to confirm.
[0033] Receive blades: The user moves to the control cabinet 2 at the line side → the control cabinet 2 performs identity recognition → clicks to receive blades → selects the material code through the touch screen 9 → controls the drawer-type storage location 4 of the cache cabinet 1 to be automatically pulled out, and the internal truss robot automatically picks up the goods, places the blade box 5 on the conveyor belt 3 for transportation, and the internal truss robot of the control cabinet 2 picks up the goods from the conveyor belt 3 and places them in the access drawer 10 for the operator to pick up.
[0034] Temporary storage of old knives: The operator moves to the line-side control cabinet 2 → control cabinet 2 performs identity recognition → clicks on the touch screen 9 to temporarily store old knives → notifies to open the storage drawer 10 → manual temporary storage → automatically identifies the empty storage location 8 for storage, and automatically grabs the blade box and places it in the storage location 8 by controlling the truss manipulator.
[0035] Take the old knife: the operator moves to the bedside control cabinet 2 → the control cabinet 2 performs identity recognition → selects the old knife material code through the touch screen 9 → the internal truss robot of the lineside control cabinet 2 automatically takes the knife from the storage location 8 and places it in the access drawer 10 for the operator to use.
[0036] Return of waste knife: the operator moves to the bedside control cabinet 2 → the control cabinet 2 performs identity recognition → clicks on the touch screen 9 of the control cabinet 2 to return the waste knife → the storage and access drawer 10 pops up to put the waste blades in → the truss robot clamps the blade box and places it on the conveyor belt 3 for transportation. The cache cabinet 1 uses the internal truss robot to pick up the goods from the conveyor belt 3 and places them in the scrap tool drawer 7 for centralized recycling.
Claims
1. A tool intelligent distribution system, characterized by: It includes a cache cabinet, a line-side control cabinet, and a conveyor belt. The cache cabinet includes a cache cabinet body, a cache touch screen, a scrap tool drawer, a blade box, a drawer-type storage location, and a cache truss manipulator. The cache touch screen is arranged on the upper front part of the cache cabinet body, the scrap tool drawer is arranged on the lower front part of the cache cabinet body, a drawer-type storage location is arranged in the cache cabinet body, the blade box is placed in the drawer-type storage location, the cache truss manipulator is arranged on the rear side of the drawer-type storage location, and the cache truss of the cache truss manipulator is connected to the conveyor belt. The line-side control cabinet includes a control cabinet body, a control storage location, a control touch screen, a storage and access drawer, and a control truss manipulator. The control touch screen is arranged on the upper front part of the control cabinet body, the storage and access drawer is arranged on the lower front part of the control cabinet body, the control storage location is arranged inside the line-side control cabinet, the control truss manipulator is arranged between the control storage location and the storage and access drawer, and the truss of the control truss manipulator is connected to the conveyor belt. The cache cabinet is located at the end of the main conveyor belt, and the line-side control cabinet is located at the end of the branch conveyor belt.
2. The tool intelligent distribution system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The conveyor belt is a closed structure.
3. The tool intelligent distribution system according to claim 1, characterized in that: Rectangular grooves are arranged at both ends of the blade box, and a soft sponge structure is adopted inside.
4. The tool intelligent distribution system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The drawer-type storage location can be pushed out and hung outside the cache cabinet for manual replenishment, or pulled out from the cache cabinet for automatic retrieval by a cache truss manipulator.
5. The tool intelligent distribution system according to claim 1 is characterized by: The buffer truss robot automatically picks and places blade boxes between drawer storage locations, conveyor belts and scrap tool drawers.
6. The tool intelligent distribution system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The control truss robot can automatically pick up and place blade boxes between the control storage location, storage drawer and conveyor belt.
7. The tool intelligent distribution system according to claim 1 is characterized by: The storage and retrieval drawer can pop out of the line-side control cabinet to manually store and retrieve the blade box.
8. A method for intelligent tool distribution, characterized by: Replenishing / removing blades: The warehouse keeper identifies the cache cabinet, selects the material code through the cache touch screen of the cache cabinet, and manually puts the blade box into the drawer position with the matching material code to replenish or remove the blades; Configure storage location: Identify the warehouse keeper for the cache cabinet, select an empty cache location, and enter the material code and tool information for confirmation; Pick up blades: The picker moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies himself to the line-side control cabinet, clicks to pick up blades, selects the material code on the control touch screen, controls the drawer-type storage location of the cache cabinet to automatically pull out, and automatically picks up the goods through the cache truss robot, places the blade box on the conveyor belt for transportation, and the line-side control cabinet controls the truss robot to pick up the goods from the conveyor belt and puts them in the access drawer for the operator to pick up; Temporary storage of old knives: The operator moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies the identity of the line-side control cabinet, clicks on the control touch screen to temporarily store the old knives, notifies to open the storage drawer, manually stores them temporarily, automatically identifies empty storage locations for storage, and controls the truss manipulator to automatically clamp the blade box and place it in the control location; Take out the old knife: The operator moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies the identity of the line-side control cabinet, selects the old knife material code on the control touch screen, and the line-side control cabinet controls the truss manipulator to automatically take the knife from the control location and place it in the access drawer for the operator to take; Return of waste knives: The operator moves to the line-side control cabinet, identifies himself to the line-side control cabinet, clicks "Return of waste knives" on the control touch screen of the line-side control cabinet, and the storage and retrieval drawer pops up to put the waste blades in. The operator controls the truss robot to clamp the blade box and places it on the conveyor belt for transportation. The cache cabinet uses the cache truss robot to pick up the goods from the conveyor belt and place them in the scrap tool drawer for centralized recycling.