Hey robots ... can you really cope with that?! This is the question that we keep asking ourselves. Because not everything that has a metallic luster turns out to be reasonable. This is why with the progressive automation of our Switchboard-cabinets montage one thing is essential: common sense.
Man and machine – hand in hand
In preparation of launching a fully automated assembly portal for the configuration and assembling of individual Switchboard-cabinets support-frames, Mangelberger digitalizes the workflow first. While back in the time circuit diagrams had to be followed, in the future our employees will be linked to digital work assignments by receiving visual step-by-step instructions.
On huge 80“ monitor walls the digitalization guides the employee step by step which mechanical frame sections have to be fitted where and in which order. Soon these instructions will go directly to Fritz and Elisabeth – our new production robots.
Right now our employees still act as robots. They check what is possible. What is working and what makes sense. What could be joined, and what has to be joined, and which components have to be optimized for the joining process. And what will really exonerate us in the future.
Issues through issues
Digitalization is supposed to simplify. But this will only work if we find the answers for the right questions. And there are plenty. Here are some examples what drives a future-oriented company.
- How fast will the existing automation provide hat rails that are already fitted with components and labeled?
- Which metal-, frame- and special-components have to be provided to the work space portal?
- Is the chronological order of the nowadays visual, but in the future automated assembly sequence, correct?
- What kind of mistakes can occur and how can we face them?
- How do metal pieces have to be reconstructed, so for example providing and assembling of these damned distance bolts can be waived?
- How fast is the human being in assembling and how much faster is the robot?
- Since the implementation of the portal, in which speed does automation have to provide supplies?
- How many frame constructions could be assembled and equipped between 4 pm and 7 am?
- Where do these equipped frame construction go over night?
- What does automated, radially symmetrical providing mean for the human if the machine takes a time out or is in need of some oil?
- How many screws do we have to unify to turn screwdriver, cross head or torx, into a BIT for the Weber-automated wrench?
It remains exciting
We call this area „still in progress“. It is far from being done. But it will. You can count on that.
Do we ask ourselves what will happen to our employees once Fritz and Lisa take over? Sure, we do! But we do not have concerns about that. Since Mangelberger has started the automation and digitalization not a single employee has been released.
But we are able to sleep more peacefully, because thanks to Fritz and Lisa we could not care less about the demographical change.
We will keep you in the loop!