Implementación de una estación para simulación de procesos de ensamblaje con mesa indexadora y robot industrial en el laboratorio de automatización de la Facultad de Mecánica.

Abstract

The engineering of automotive is an important area of study in the academic training of maintenance engineer, since currently the majority of industrial processes are performed automatically using modern equipment and advanced technology; for this reason a station of simulation of Assembly processes in the laboratory of automation of de Faculty of mechanics of the ESPOCH was implemented This station has been developed from their desing using Solidworks and AutoCAD, which are software for Mechanical Modeling. It has been selected the equipment and elements that make up this station under parameters of quality, performance, efficiency and performance: the pieces to be assembled (base, cover and pin) be placed on their respective ramps. The process stared in a way automatically by pressing the button “start” on the screen KTP 700, each base to be assembled will be placed on the indexer table through double-acting cylinder then this table will rotate a certain angle so the industrial robot place the cover in this new position, followed this, The table again turn the same angle to the robot place the pin, this completing the assembly stage getting a finished product so it is finally placed on the conveyor belt and it is directed to a storage area. The development of the processes will automatically stop once that have finished assembling all the pieces of work, or at the same time can stop it by pressing the button “Stop” in the case of a fault or emergency. To carry out the implementation of this module was communicated two PLC S7-1500 of the same characteristics with a propagation Master/Slave using the TIA Portal V13 software; should be considered security measures in the laboratory before, during and after of it’s the development of the practices.