Conveyance Operation Visualization for Faster Specification Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for manufacturing conveyance devices face challenges such as discrepancies in understanding between manufacturers and customers regarding specifications, leading to numerous correction operations post-installation, resulting in prolonged delivery times and potential errors during actual operation.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a host controller and individual controllers with a communication unit, utilizing operation confirmation devices to visually and virtually confirm the desired operation of conveyance devices, allowing for data input and correction before actual testing, thereby reducing errors and streamlining the manufacturing process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional manufacturing methods are used with paper drawings or still images, then specification determination can be performed, but discrepancies in understanding occur between manufacturers and customers leading to numerous post-installation corrections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the conveyance device using motion simulation technology. This virtual model reproduces the actual motion and operation of the conveyance device, allowing customers to visually confirm and understand the specifications before manufacturing. The virtual copy eliminates discrepancies in understanding that occur with traditional paper drawings or still images, as it dynamically demonstrates the actual device behavior.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs motion simulation and visual confirmation before the actual manufacturing and installation process. By allowing customers to review and confirm the virtual motion of the conveyance device in advance, potential issues and misunderstandings are identified and resolved before physical production begins, thereby reducing post-installation corrections and accelerating delivery time.
2Productivity
If computer programs are created based on engineer experience without visual confirmation, then design can be completed, but errors occur during actual operation requiring corrections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the motion simulation results are used to verify and refine the computer program logic. The virtual motion provides visual feedback that allows engineers to check whether the programmed control logic produces the desired conveyance device operation. This feedback loop enables error detection and correction during the design phase, improving operational reliability without significantly extending the design completion time.
3Measurement precision
If test runs are conducted after assembly to confirm operation, then actual motion can be observed, but numerous corrections are needed and delivery time is prolonged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs motion simulation and visual confirmation of the conveyance device operation before physical assembly and test runs. The virtual motion simulation allows all operational parameters and motions to be confirmed in advance, so that when the actual device is assembled and tested, minimal or no corrections are needed. This preliminary virtual testing eliminates the time-consuming iteration of physical test runs and corrections.
4Ease of manufacture
If parameters are determined without visual verification, then data input can be completed, but discrepancies between expected and actual motion occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses virtual motion simulation to create an accurate visual representation of how the conveyance device will move with the input parameters. This virtual copy allows stakeholders to verify that the parameters produce the desired motion before finalizing the data input. The visual confirmation ensures that parameter settings accurately reflect the intended operation, eliminating discrepancies between expected and actual motion.
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AI summary
An object is to develop a method for manufacturing a conveyance device (1) capable of accurately completing the conveyance device (1) imagined by a customer in a relatively short time. In a method for manufacturing a conveyance device (1), one or a plurality of operation confirmation devices (90) that visually confirms an operation of the conveyance device (1) is used, the method includes exhibiting a desired operation of the conveyance device (1) in a video by the operation confirmation device (90) and confirming a required operation of the conveyance device (1) in a specification confirmation step, inputting data for realizing the required operation or realizing an operation similar to the required operation to the operation confirmation device (90), and exhibiting the operation of the conveyance device (1) in a video based on the data that has been input in a virtual operation confirmation step, and inputting the data to an actual individual controller (10) of the conveyance unit in a data input step.