Industrial Robot System Integration

With the development of society and market, the demand of variety and low-mass production is increasing. Companies have to reform not only in the macro management, but also in manufacturing systems. Robot work-cell system is popular nowadays for its efficiency and flexibility. However, although industrial robot has its inherent property of automation and flexibility, traditional system integration method has limited its effect. Robot work-cell system is able to produce specific working subject (product) efficiently, but when a subject is changed to another, the system structure would be changed accordingly, which is time-consuming for the limitation of integration method and limits the flexibility of robot. How to break the limitation and make use of the flexibility of robot fully becomes a meaningful subject.Robot work-cell system is a manufacturing system in essence. Therefore, we can make use of relative concepts and technical methods in the field of manufacturing system to solve problems in the field of industrial robot system. Manufacturing system scheme exists and develops according to the object and factors of company competence. No matter how the advanced manufacturing scheme developed, its main connotation is high flexibility, low cost and rapid response to market changing. Reconfigurable manufacturing system is a new advanced manufacturing scheme advanced for the rapid changing market environment. It was studied systematically from 1990's. There are many useful concepts and methods in this field after many researches and practice. RMS has the property of DMS and FMS, and it can change its system configuration rapidly and exactly and adjust its system ability and function to...