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How many of you have heard the following statement recently?
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Dynamic complex global projects now exist
Multi-disciplined teams
Multiple locations
Different languages
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Reach and
Clearance
Build Quality
Off-Line
Programming
Cycle Time/
Fixture Design Throughput
Complexity is the
overwhelming challenge
Safety
felt by product designers
for new product
development and
introduction. Controls
Source: The Aberdeen Group “The value of virtual simulation
versus traditional methods”
Product Design System Layout
December 2014
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The classical approach
Equipment Design
Synchronize
Changes
Controls Design
Synchronize
Changes
Installation
Synchronize
Changes
Program Try-
Debug
Robots Out
Cost%and%Time%
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Virtual
The dynamic approach Simulation
users saw a 16
Estimating Planning Design and Testing Construction
% decrease in
Process Planning & Documentation
overall
development
Equipment
Design
Debug
time for new
Controls Design OLP
Synchronize
Changes products
Source:%The%Aberdeen%Group%“The%value%of%virtual%
simula;on%versus%tradi;onal%methods”%December%
Work cell Synchronize 2014%
Simulation Changes
Debug Try-Out/
Installation Physica Robot
l Programs
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“But that’s the way we have always done it.”
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Change will continue to happen
= more testing
= more time!
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The digital world isn’t the same as the real world for a variety of reasons.
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Right the first time
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Why is accuracy so important?
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As the complexity grows, so does the difficulty to predict or visualise the questions,
doubts or errors.
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We have found it best to use
the actual PLCs and HMIs
intended to control the final
production facility for our
emulation.
Enabling our customer to focus on the product launch not the facility
commissioning.
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An example of the visible difference using point cloud data
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Example of cloud data from different scanner of the same items
Not all cloud data is the same quality, the crisper the details the more we work
with the data.
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Factors that will effect the data
1. Scanner Ranging Accuracy Example error after cloud data
2. Scanner Angular Accuracy was converted to a 3D Model
(on horizontal and vertical axes)
3. Scan Registration Accuracy
Example, for a 2m long robot arm on a 400mm radius measured base, the
error at the tool could be up to 5 x the measurement error
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Create a measurement plan directly within Process Simulate
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Enabling the team to work free of site
restrictions in a virtual environment of
the actual facility as built.
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Accurate model combined with the actual PLC control, enables us to emulate the facility
with unprecedented levels of confidence.