Movable Riveting Tools for Mixed Fuselage Panel Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Production facilities face inefficiencies when processing machining targets of different shapes, as the number of processing devices required varies with each target's shape, leading to underutilization of devices and reduced operational efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A production facility design that includes a transport device for mixed-shaped machining targets, multiple processing devices with defined work regions, and a control system to move unused processing devices to adjacent regions to process targets, thereby increasing device utilization and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple processing devices are provided to handle machining targets with different shapes, then the production facility can process all types of targets, but some processing devices will be idle temporarily when processing targets with fewer processes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the processing devices movable rather than fixed, allowing them to dynamically reposition along the transport path based on real-time processing needs. This resolves the contradiction by enabling devices to adapt their positions to match varying target shapes and process requirements, eliminating idle time while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a system where processing devices can serve multiple work regions and handle different target types by moving to appropriate positions. This universal capability allows a single device to perform multiple functions across different locations, ensuring high utilization while accommodating diverse machining target shapes.
2Productivity
If processing devices are fixed in specific work regions, then the system structure is simple, but processing devices cannot be utilized efficiently when targets have varying shapes and process requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic positioning capability to processing devices, allowing them to move along the transport path to different work regions as needed. This dynamic feature increases utilization rates by enabling devices to respond to varying target requirements, while the control system manages the complexity of coordinating these movements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a control system that monitors the states of processing devices and machining targets, using this feedback information to optimally position devices. This feedback mechanism coordinates the complexity of moving devices with the need for high utilization, creating an intelligent system that adapts to varying processing requirements.
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AI summary
A production facility is provided with: an AGV for transporting a plurality of fuselage panels of multiple types having different shapes in a mixed state on a previously determined transport path; a plurality of A/Rs for riveting the fuselage panels; work areas set so as to correspond to the respective A/Rs in which the A/Rs move to rivet the fuselage panels; and a buffer area, set beforehand in the transport path adjacent to the work area, to which the A/R corresponding to the adjacent work area moves so as to rivet the fuselage panel. When there is no fuselage panel to be riveted in the work area adjacent to the buffer area and the fuselage panel to be riveted is present in the buffer area, a control device moves the A/R corresponding to the work area adjacent to the buffer area to the buffer area to rivet the fuselage panel.