IMPROVED ROBOTIC DEVICE DRIVE SYSTEM- FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM (FMS)

With today's industry and new technology development, there are more demands on
efficient and flexible system in the manufacturing system in order to have a productive and
qualitative production. Plus, robotic and automation is the main element in the industry
especially for the manufacturing factories. The innovation of flexible manufacturing
system has been developed rapidly in the industry as the market become more intense and
competitive. This report presents the improved robotic device drive system-flexible
manufacturing system (FMS). Fundamentally, this project is an improvement of the
previous project. The existing system is an integrated system of KUKA KR3 Robotic,
OMRON C200HE PLC, sensors, and conveyors. The improvement is focused on the two
main parts which are PLC programming and human machine interface of the system. The
system developed is an application of robotic and PLC in the real manufacturing industry
which is a pick-and-place system. It is a small scale FMS where the robotic arm will
respond to the PLC command which has been programmed. By using the application of
HMI, the user could control and monitor the pick-and-place system from PC. In order to
understand and develop this project a thorough study of the robotic, PLC, FMS, and HMI
as well as the hardware and software has been done. Then, the development of
programming for PLC and HMI had been developed by using CX-programmer and Visual
Basic 6.0 software.