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Problem description1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Production automation and digitalization is a definite trend in business today. At the same time, production technologies and the equipment that supports them are becoming increasingly complex. The goal is to produce various products in small batches, with high productivity, high quality and as efficiently as possible. Different processing methods are used in production. Sheet metal processing is a widespread field in mechanical engineering. Bending, in turn, is a very widely used processing method in mechanical engineering. Robot bending is widely used to automate the process. This training material looks at what a robotic workplace looks like today, how bending technology is developed and what you need to know to effectively make different products in a robot-cell. The complex engineering \u00a0task\u00a0 is decomposed into narrower parts and here it is solved in integrated stages and it is indicated in which position the employee is responsible for solving the given tasks in the company and how there tasks are related to the study programme.<\/p>\n

Roles2<\/sup><\/p>\n

There are three levels of engineering tasks considered with the workplace (robot-based bending cell) for manufacturing the needed parts.<\/p>\n

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  1. Macro planning<\/strong> \u2013 Deals with higher level planning of integrated manufacturing: selection of robots, bending equipment, workplace layout design, part families composition, order\u00a0management, tooling solutions, etc. These are the high level of engineering activities and systems engineers<\/strong>(production engineers) are usually the staff for deciding the problems (see needed competences of system engineers).<\/li>\n
  2. Micro planners <\/strong>deal with the operating level decisions, such as designing the operation technology, organising the tooling, maintenance of equipment, off-line programming, statistical process control, handling the program library. The robot-based workplaces must be ready for manufacturing and fulfilling the planned orders.- Robot system technicians<\/strong> are the staff at this position and the competence chard explains the needed competences<\/li>\n
  3. Operation executers <\/strong>are dealing with fulfilling the production task. For this purpose is needed to put in order the workplace, if necessary to select the operation parameters, if necessary to generate the NC codes, to operate the bending machine and industrial robot, to follow the rules for achieving the needed quality and quantity of products. Robot operators<\/strong> are the right persons for operating in the robot-based workplace and producing the goods. Needed competences are described in the robot-operator competence chards.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Link to the competence chards.<\/em><\/p>\n