In our work, we often cooperate with automation equipment manufacturers to repeatedly discuss the design details. Therefore, we have summarized some suggestions and introductions that are conducive to the design of automation equipment, hoping to help you so that your design can be successful.
What is the design process of automation equipment?
The standard design process for this device has 7 steps. details as follows:
- Determine the project
Understand customer needs, including product quality requirements, equipment production efficiency requirements, and equipment working environment.
- Analyze the product
Understand the production process of the product, the size requirements and incoming materials in all aspects of the product, communicate with customers the precautions in the production process, and the technical parameters of the location where the equipment is used.
- Make a plan
The equipment plan will be discussed and analyzed by the engineering personnel. The plan includes an equipment schematic diagram, a brief introduction of each part of the organization, an action description, and equipment technical parameters.
- Scheme review
The audit team is composed of engineering personnel to audit the plan. The audit content includes:
- Equipment feasibility assessment.
- Equipment cost assessment.
- Equipment production efficiency assessment.
- Structural feasibility assessment of each part.
- Plan rectification
Correct the problems discussed in the program review.
- The customer determines the design plan
The design plan is handed over to the customer, who will finalize the plan according to their needs.
- Design and development
The engineering department arranges engineers to design the mechanism, make machine assembly and parts drawings, select executive components and electronic control accessories, and list the processing parts list, standard parts requisitions, and action instructions.
How do you do an excellent job designing automation equipment?
Although automation equipment is not as large as standard equipment, it is of various varieties and serves various departments. Due to the variety of automation equipment, the design work is more complicated. This requires that design engineers must have good professional quality, broad knowledge, flexibility and originality, the ability to draw inferences from others, have more ideas, have original opinions, and be the ability to transplant new technologies And integrate them into their design intent.
- In the design of equipment, use finished parts as much as possible to effectively reduce the cost of products in terms of raw material consumption, management costs, yield and other aspects. The use of finished parts can also make the equipment have better reliable performance after being put into the market, prolong the design and manufacture cycle of the equipment, and improve the design efficiency. Secondly, in the design of equipment, based on satisfying the process design conditions, the technical scheme of the equipment should be carefully studied, and the advanced, reasonable and stable equipment should be determined.
Finally, in the design of equipment, we should also adhere to the humanized design concept, repeatedly measure whether the equipment’s use conforms to workers’ usage habits, and pay more attention to details.
- When designing equipment, in addition to considering whether the design meets customer and production needs, you should also consider whether the structure of the equipment is reasonable, whether it is safe and stable, and easy to process, manufacture, install and maintain. The designer must strictly implement the relevant standard specifications, fully understand the equipment’s process requirements, physical parameters and functions, and compare and select multiple schemes to determine the best scheme. On the other hand, designers should pay attention to the rationality of the design of equipment parts. When designing, they should check whether the parts meet the requirements of stiffness, strength, etc., and also reasonably select the materials, types of coordination and processing methods of the parts.
- The quality of design work is directly related to the level and quality of equipment. Standardized design work requires the formulation of strict design procedures, methodical demonstration of technical solutions, design of construction drawings, review of process performance and degree of standardization, etc. In standardizing drawings and design documents, checking whether they comply with relevant national regulations is necessary. The nouns, terms, symbols, formats, formats, names, codes, etc., are carefully reviewed and strictly implemented, and the relevant standards and specifications of the design work are implemented.
at last
The equipment design should not only consider the process and technical issues but also give priority to its effects and benefits and use them as the main criteria for judging the success of equipment. Things designed with equipment should be easy to maintain and process. Processing issues should be considered when designing. For example, try not to drill holes on the arc surface if you must drill through the centre or first process the platform and then drill. For the products designed with equipment, please make inquiries in the market for sub-components and parts, and try to use standard parts for accessories to facilitate maintenance and exchange.