Visualization and Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems: A practical implementation, visualization and offline programming methodologies

Product engineering enterprises faces their customer?s demands, to manufacture products with the highest quality for the less amount of money, more and more comprehensive and individualized. So far only the manufacturing and production aspect has been considered, now the customer?s demands more detailed, advanced and customized problem solutions. Consideration of not only the production aspect, but the whole product lifecycle are needed. Based on the advanced manufacturing equipment available at this project and in order to render the possibility of realization of a virtual model of the (FMS), the implementation, communication between different software applications and the FMS, a FMS with affiliation to the Higher Flexibility System Concept has been developed. A theoretical work and contributions with the HFSC according to relevance, usefulness and utilization within the FMS is elaborated. A practical implementation, including communication between DELMIA V5 Robotics, custom made interface and the FMS, visualization, offline programming methodologies, has been done to set up a demonstrator for the verification of both feasibility and usefulness of the theoretical contributions