Juan Carlos Rojas-Garnica
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José Lorenzo Muñoz-Mata
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Carlos Rangel-Romero
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Alma Delia Ocotitla-Muñoz
In modern industry, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) are indispensable to increase productivity and product quality. The cells that constitute them have several work stations connected to each other through a communication protocol, therefore, with which they are able to identify and distinguish between the different parts or products processed in the system. Furthermore, they have the ability of adaptation to the demand of processing different products and quantities. In the FMS communication protocols are used such as Device Net, Ethernet, among others. However, there are cases in which there are no communication modules; however, it is necessary to develop alternative devices to communicate the work stations with each other to integrate a flexible manufacturing cell with the necessary characteristics. This paper presents the results obtained from the study of infrastructure for the development of a communication interface to integrate a flexible manufacturing cell using a microcontroller, with the capability of communicating two work stations. In this particular case, a FANUC M6iB robot with a HAAS VF2 machining center.
System design for flexible manufacturing systems. 3rd report Manufacturing cell formation with alternative machine tools.
