Dark Factory, namely, a smart factory. Because all the processing, transportation and testing processes from raw materials to final products are completed in "Dark factory", which does not require manual operation, it can turn off the lights for operation. When the factory is handed over to the machine, the most direct purpose of the industrial robot is to replace the factory manpower, reduce the production cost and improve the production efficiency.
Features of Dark factory
1. The system is autonomous: it can collect and understand information from the outside world and its own, and use this information to analyze, judge and plan its own behavior
2. Practice of overall vision technology: combining signal processing, inference and prediction, simulation and multimedia technology, the design and manufacturing process in real life will be expanded in reality.
3. Coordination, recombination and expansion: each group in the system can form the best system structure according to their own work tasks.
4. Self learning and maintenance capability: through the system self-learning function, the database can be supplemented and updated during the manufacturing process, fault diagnosis can be automatically performed, and the system can be implemented through troubleshooting and maintenance or notification.
5. Man machine coexistence system: there is a cooperative relationship between man and machine, which complements each other at different levels.
Functions of Dark factory
1. Intelligent warehousing: automatic material preparation and loading;
2. Intelligent workshop: automatic production, assembly and packaging;
3. Intelligent quality control: automatic quality control;
4. Integration of other systems: integration with enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution system;
5. Traceability management: traceability of materials, production links, quality control and other links.
The purpose of intelligent manufacturing is to reduce the cost of enterprises and increase profits. If we excessively pursue the "Dark factory" and ignore other factors such as cost, it is a way of giving up everything.
If robots are used, there are two ways: ordinary industrial robots and composite robots. The advantage of ordinary industrial robots is that they are relatively cheap, but they must be deployed in different production lines; The price of composite robots is relatively high, but one robot may be able to meet the needs of different production lines.
For small and medium-sized enterprises, capital and human resources are very valuable, so we should adopt low-cost solutions suitable for our own enterprises and focus on new things (such as digital and intelligent manufacturing), but we should do a good job in analysis, make full preparations and gradually transition to intelligent manufacturing.