A Teaching Factory on Context-aware Design of Automation for Sustainable Manufacturing Processes

6 Pages Posted: 1 Apr 2022

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Panagiotis Stavropoulos

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, 26504, Greece

Alexios Papacharalampopoulos

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece

Konstantinos Kampouris

Gizelis Robotics, Schimatari Viotias 32009, Kormatzini Area, Greece

Christos Papaioannou

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece

Theodoros Bekiaris

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece

Nikolaos Porevopoulos

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece

Date Written: February 15, 2022

Abstract

Automation has been the one of the key concepts in the factories of the future. However, its design ought to include criteria beyond the standard ones, related to digital manufacturing, addressing also social, personal and business sustainability aspects. The current work targets at creating a Teaching Factory that will be able to fuse all these aspects. To this end, and under the concept of designing robotized manufacturing processes, a Teaching Factory is considered that targeted the design of a robotic gripper for robo-bend cells. The technical requirements included universality across potential part geometries and the social goal has been to reduce cells operators’ physical and cognitive load. Additionally, the commercialization of the gripper was regarded. The procedure of designing and operating the TF is described herein and a roadmap for evaluation is extracted towards designing TF evaluation procedures.

Keywords: Teaching Factory, design, sustainability, automation of manufacturing process, context-aware design

Suggested Citation

Stavropoulos, Panagiotis and Papacharalampopoulos, Alexios and Kampouris, Konstantinos and Papaioannou, Christos and Bekiaris, Theodoros and Porevopoulos, Nikolaos, A Teaching Factory on Context-aware Design of Automation for Sustainable Manufacturing Processes (February 15, 2022). Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Learning Factories (CLF 2022), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4072720 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4072720

Panagiotis Stavropoulos (Contact Author)

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, 26504, Greece ( email )

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Alexios Papacharalampopoulos

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece ( email )

Konstantinos Kampouris

Gizelis Robotics, Schimatari Viotias 32009, Kormatzini Area, Greece ( email )

Christos Papaioannou

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece ( email )

Theodoros Bekiaris

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece ( email )

Nikolaos Porevopoulos

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras 26504, Greece ( email )

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