3D Teaching Program Generation for Contract Manufacturing Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The shortage of teaching personnel for automated devices and the high cost of outsourcing teaching processes hinder the efficient utilization of automated devices, leading to lower productivity in contract manufacturing.
Innovation Solution
A contract manufacturing support device and program that simulates processing tasks using three-dimensional data, identifies suitable automated devices, and provides tailored teaching programs to optimize device operation and productivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automated devices are used for processing, then productivity is improved, but teaching costs increase and teaching personnel are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the automated device and workpiece in a simulation environment. The teaching program is first developed and tested on this virtual copy, then transferred to the actual physical device. This eliminates the need for expensive on-site teaching personnel while maintaining full teaching functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs all teaching operations in advance through simulation before actual production. The teaching program is created, tested, and validated in the virtual environment, then directly applied to the physical automated device without requiring subsequent on-site teaching adjustments.
2Ease of operation
If processors without automated devices are selected, then teaching can be performed, but processing efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a simulation environment as an intermediary between the processor and the actual automated device. This virtual environment provides the teaching capability that was previously only available through human instructors, while the automated device itself handles the high-efficiency processing.
3Productivity
If automated devices are utilized, then operation rate improves, but teaching program creation becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified virtual model of the complex automated device in the simulation environment. This copy retains all necessary functional characteristics for teaching purposes but eliminates the complexity of the physical device, making program creation straightforward while the actual high-speed automated device handles production.
Data Source
AI summary
In a contract manufacturing support device, a control unit acquires three-dimensional drawing data and a processing desired condition of a manufacturing outsourced product from a terminal of a manufacturer, simulates a processing process of the manufacturing outsourced product in a three-dimensional space on the basis of the three-dimensional drawing data, and three-dimensional device data and processable conditions acquired in advance from terminals of a plurality of processors, specifies an automated device capable of executing the processing process satisfying the processing desired condition among the automated devices owned by the processors, outputs a specification result to the terminal of the manufacturer, and outputs, in a case of acquiring an order instruction from the terminal of the manufacturer, a processing instruction of the manufacturing outsourced product and a teaching program for operating the automated device to a terminal of a processor that owns the specified automated device.