Automatica 2012 presents solutions for the industry of the car

A look to the streets or to the rooms of exhibition of the dealers shows it: the manufacturers of trucks offer increasingly variants of the same basic models. Of this way reduces the number of units of each model. This tendency demands solutions of automation more flexible, a central subject for the manufacturers of robotics in Automatica. The key finds in the software: The programming of the robots and the lines of robots configures of way increasingly simple and intuitive, of such form that is possible to realise with greater ease and rapidity the adaptations.

The unification and the integration of functions foresee to increase also the simplicity and the flexibility. Up to now, for example in the hit, had of guns pegadoras, robots and technical of transport that required own individual controls. In the future it foresees that the three share a same control. Of this way can avoid the interfaces and the complexity.

In the manufacture of trucks, the hit automated is increasingly important for the companies of automation. This technician of assembling receives an additional impulse by the need to save fuel and the greater use of electrical vehicles. In both cases, is indispensable a light construction refinada. Here they use impossible materials to solder like plastics and compound materials. Also it is interesting for the combinations of materials that can not join through classical “methods” of welding, as it occurs with the steel and the aluminium.

An entirely new field for the oferentes of robotic systems and for the companies of technicians of setting and manipulation is the manufacture of batteries for the electrical vehicles. Because to date they had not combined cells of ions of lithium forming units so big as it occurs in the electrical motors. Like this they originate continuous tensions between 200 and 400 V that require new mechanisms of hygiene also in the production.

The manufacture of batteries, the electromovilidad in general and the different subjects of light construction of the industry of the car are subjects that will treat the speakers of the Forum of Automatica, that will take place daily in the pavilion B1. On 23 May it will be the day of the automotive sector, in which the forum will devote during all the day to the challenges of the industry of the automotive sector like a traditional key sector for the robotics and the automation.

Between the speakers fits to quote to Arne Lakeit, director of Planning of the Production of Audi AG on the subject “To the avant-garde of the technician: In the products and in the processes”, Daniel Schäfer, director of Design of Production project i, BMW Group about ‘BMW Megacity Vehicle: Beginning of a new was with materials composed of carbon' or Benjamin Bickel, scientific collaborator of the Technological Centre Bavarian of Technical Motriz Electrical (And|Drive-Center) in the Chair of Automation of the Manufacture and Systems of Production on ‘Setting of electrical mobility in Germany like headquarters of production: How face the challenges with modern robotic approaches'.

A specialist of the light construction, more exactly in the manufacture of materials composed of fibres of carbon, has declared Automatica 2012 like one of his main subjects. Under the title ‘Composite Production Automated (ACP)' will take place a special exhibition and an area of innovation with the possibility to converse with experts. Between the most stood out offers in this regard in the living room fits to quote the ‘Automated Composite Production Innovation Area', where will show in direct and in cooperation with institutes of investigation, solutions automated for the manufacture of materials composed with fibres.

Also in the light construction, the technicians of hot “assembling” like the welding follow constituting one of the central challenges of the technician of setting and manipulation. Especially in the manufacture of portaejes, bodyworks with doors and capós included, bumpers and systems of leakage, dominate technologies of welding very diverse like the welding by points of resistance or by arch voltaico. Beside the need to increase the profitability and the quality, the hygiene of the processes of the systems automated and the automatic documentation of the results exert here an increasingly important paper.

The industrial computer systems offer integral solutions: from the computer-aided rational manufacturing of the processes of work, going through the automation and interconnection of the individual systems to form units of manufacture, until the documentation automated of the processes of work and of each product soldered. In all these processes, the sintonización and the interconnection with the components of hardware and software like robots, devices of manipulation or computer systems are processes very demanding. For this reason, the manufacturers of systems of welding develop and optimise constantly the points of corresponding connection.

To satisfy the exigencias of quality every time greater of the industry of the car, the industrial processing of images provides the key technologies. The modern technician of measurement on line three-dimensional, that stands out by his high accuracy, allows today realise of fast form —and to measure of the needs of the processes— the most diverse tasks of measurement in the gross bodywork, directly during the process. Of this way, the data of measurement obtained can use directly to optimise the quality in the production.

In the industry of the car, the inspection of the cords of welding will supply increasingly also the data for a manual inspection entirely automated, what will increase notably the efficiency. In place to decide only if a piece cost or no voucher, the system of inspection of the cords will have to differentiate unambiguously the failures or communicate the position of the same. From the functional point of view, the inspection of the surface exerts an increasingly important paper. Like this, for example, failures in the surface of boards of butts can involve later failures of operation. The processing of images has for this of complex systems of inspection with software of special verification, devices of exhibition to the measure and cameras of lines.

The wide fan of the notable technologies for the industry of the car in Automatica converts the living room in a focus of attraction for the sector. Dichael Zürn, Senior Manager Process Engineering, Daimler AG, underlines: “Automatica is a fair that reviste big importance for us. It exhibits all the technologies of automation and the current state of the developments. For me, Automatica is 'the' living room. Regarding the content, here represents a vast fan to the that add some oferentes leading with technology of setting really innovative”.