USING THE SIMULATION PROGRAM FOR THE DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE PRODUCTION LINE
Urgency of the research. Increasing productivity while maintaining sufficient production quality is one of the main criteria for maintaining competitiveness. An appropriate way is to automate and robotize the production process. In order for robotization to succeed, all design steps need to undergo in-depth research. Target setting. The aim is to design a robotic device (robotic line) capable of increasing the production of components in a smaller workspace from 91,000 to 160,000 per year for each of the 7 types of components. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The introduction of robotic devices into production systems is devoted to a large part of the publication. In general, it is possible to state that the robot deployment is specific and depends on the particular manufacturing process. For this reason, it is necessary to carry out a new analysis of the suitability of the robot for each manufacturing process, supported by off-line simulation. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. This article focuses on a specific workplace solution that uses one type of robot delivered by a parent company. The use of a different robot type with more appropriate parameters was not feasible in financial terms. The research objective. The aim is to design the most suitable placement of production machines against the position of the industrial robot. Then analyse all the robot's working moves so that it can be manipulated by one of the 7 types of component on the line, with a production increase of 483.000 pieces per year. The statement of basic materials. Simulating the production workspace in the offline environment allows you to optimize your design before it is actually created on the selected desktop. This reduces the development costs and saves the total time when the work is completed. Conclusions. The article describes the problems of design, optimization and simulation of a robot equipped workplace. For optimizing workplace was precisely defined robot type when, which limited the use of the robot from better parameters. Using the robot can increase workplace productivity while reducing the work area. With the implementation of the proposal, the target was achieved to increase workplace output by 483.000 components/year.