Machinery & Energetics

Hardware and software complex for operational management of a flexible site of highly efficient assembly production

Viktorija Smolij, Natan Smolij, Mykhailo Shvydenko, Semen Voloshyn
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Abstract

The work was devoted to the urgent issues of increasing productivity, efficiency and reducing the cost of assembly plants of multi-series productions. The goal of the work was to create an effective hardware and software complex for modelling the process of assembling objects and their components (using the example of power cells), which took into account the structure and parameters of production modules, transport and warehouse systems, allowed generation of initial plans and used Petri nets to determine scenarios for operational management of the specified production process. The distribution of autonomous transport modules by sections of the production site according to a certain structure and number was proposed. The execution time of each operation was calculated, after which a matrix of the duration of detailed operations was created. An initial schedule was drawn up and the decision rules were investigated, and a custom rule was proposed that prioritises details going to the most distant modules. The behaviour of the production system with the resulting schedule was simulated when autonomous transport modules were introduced. The created hardware and software complex, based on a script written in the Python3 language, combined the functionality necessary for the flexible production modules transport service algorithm study, the analysis of the network model for flexible automated production site functioning equipment, and organisation of flexible automated production site operational management subsystems. The obtained modelling results made it possible to adjust site’s structural filling and organisation of the production, transport and warehouse components, eliminating overloading of modules and ensuring a reduction of the industrial cycle while maintaining the volume of work. The Petri net modelling method in the created hardware and software complex made it possible to compare several options for the operational management organisation and to obtain a living grid of a non-accumulating system in which all transitions were activated at least once, and so, obtaining a working option for the effective production process organisation

Keywords

assembly station, robotic production, flexible production modules, technological equipment, automated warehouse, automated transport module

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Smolij, V., Smolij, N., Shvydenko, M., & Voloshyn, S. (2025). Hardware and software complex for operational management of a flexible site of highly efficient assembly production. Machinery & Energetics, 16(2), 20-35. https://doi.org/10.31548/machinery/2.2025.20
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