16 March 2022
Industry 4.0 introduces smart solutions throughout the company’s supply chain, including manual assembly, where the goal is to ensure shorter work cycle time, increase productivity and quality, while minimizing costs. Following the principles o...
Due to increasing competition in the global market and to meet the need for rapid changes in product variability, it is necessary to introduce self-configurable and smart solutions within the entire process chain, including manual assembly to ensure...
In this state-of-the-art review, the authors explore the recent advancements in the topics of learning curve models and their estimation methods for manual operations and processes as well as the data collection and monitoring technologies used for s...
Last year’s developments are characterized by a dramatic drop in customer demand leading to stiff competition and more challenges that each enterprise needs to cope with in a globalized market. Production in low-mix/high-volume batches is repla...
Human errors (HEs) are prevalent issues in manual assembly, leading to product defects and increased costs. Understanding and knowing the factors influencing human errors in manual assembly processes is essential for improving product quality and eff...
Human errors (HEs) are common problems in manual assembly processes, impacting product quality and resulting in additional costs. Based on expert judgments, this study aims to identify the most significant factors affecting HEs in manual assembly pro...
Personalized production is moving the progress of industrial automation forward, and demanding new tools for improving the decision-making of the operators. This paper presents a new, projection-based augmented reality system for assisting operators...
The Dougong structure is an ancient architectural innovation of the East. Its construction method is complex and challenging to understand from drawings. Scale models were developed to preserve this culturally-unique architectural technique by learni...
Human–robot collaboration is becoming increasingly important in industrial assembly. In view of high cost pressure, resulting productivity requirements, and the trend towards human-centered automation in the context of Industry 5.0, a reasonabl...
In recent decades, production in high-volume/low-variety batches is replaced with low-volume/high-variety production type. This type of production demands excessive flows of both material and information. Recent advances in information and communicat...
Recently demonstrated robotic assembling technologies for fuel cell stacks used fuel cell components manually pre-arranged in stacks (presenters). Identifying the original orientation of fuel cell components and loading them in presenters for a subse...
Research on the efficiency and quality issues faced in aircraft assembly was conducted in this article. A new method of human–machine collaborative riveting was proposed, which combined the flexibility of manual collaboration with the precise c...
This study explores the automation enhancement in the assembly process of wiring harnesses for automotive applications, focusing on manually inserting fuses and relays into boxes—a task known for quality and efficiency challenges. This research...
According to the UNHCR, 117.2 million people have been displaced in 2023, with the rate and scale of displacement surpassing the resources available to assist those impacted. Modular construction is favored over traditional methods to meet the urgent...
Due to the complexity of the automobile manufacturing process, some flexible and delicate assembly work relies on manual operations. However, high-frequency and high-load repetitive operations make assembly workers prone to physical fatigue. This stu...
To address the technical challenges, production quality issues, and inefficiencies caused by the heavy reliance on traditional manual processing of small assembly plates in the shipbuilding industry, this paper presents the design and analysis of a t...
Aiming at the efficiency bottleneck and error risk caused by the over-reliance on manual experience in traditional assembly sequence planning, the urgent demand for deep reuse of multi-source knowledge in complex products, and the growing demand for...
The assembly and maintenance of products in the aviation industry constitute a crucial aspect of the product life cycle, with numerous tasks still reliant on manual operations. In order to solve the problem of narrow operation spaces and blind areas...
This study provides a comprehensive overview of the automated assembly process of large-scale metal structures using industrial robots. Our research reveals that the utilization of industrial robots significantly enhances precision, speed, and cost-e...
Monitoring the assembly process is a challenge in the manual assembly of mass customization production, in which the operator needs to change the assembly process according to different products. If an assembly error is not immediately detected durin...
In the 20th century, there was a burst concerning the development of the automobile industry, which has become an essential asset for society. With its evolution, this industry created a foundation that based its competitiveness on satisfying people&...
Manual assembly operations are sensitive to human errors that can diminish the quality of final products. The paper shows an application of human reliability analysis in a realistic manufacturing context to identify where and why manual assembly erro...
Traditional manual assembly is limited in terms of both efficiency and quality. In contrast, robots are characterized by rapidness and accuracy and can cooperate with humans to perform complex tasks. Human–robot collaboration may hold the poten...
There are various forms of assembly data sources for wind turbines, which contributes to the lack of a unified and standardized expression. Moreover, the reusability of historical assembly data is low, which leads to the poor reasoning ability of a n...
The automotive industry is one of the most demanding sectors of all manufacturing industries due to its competitiveness. It is necessary to innovate through the implementation of automated and robotic equipment, leading to cycle time and labor cost r...
Railway wheelsets are the key to ensuring the safe operation of trains. To achieve zero-defect production, railway equipment manufacturers must strictly control every link in the wheelset production process. The press-fit curve output by the wheelset...
Mobile camera modules are manufactured by aligning and assembling multiple differently shaped part lenses. Therefore, selecting the part lenses to assemble from candidates (called cavities) and determining the directional angle of each part lens for...
The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel process failure mode and effect analysis (PFMEA) approach for the reliable design of assembly activities to prevent product defects due to errors during the assembly of complex products. PFMEA is approa...
The combination of human cognitive skills and dexterity with the endurance and repeatability of robots is a promising approach to modern assembly. However, efficiently allocating tasks and planning an assembly sequence between humans and robots is a...
Major aircraft manufacturers are expecting the commercial aircraft market to overcome the pre-COVID levels by 2025, which demands an increase in the production rate. However, aeronautical product assembly processes are still mainly manually performed...
Globalization in the field of industry is fostering the need for cognitive production systems. To implement modern concepts that enable tools and systems for such a cognitive production system, several challenges on the shop floor level must first be...
In the context of the demand for mass customization of products, a trade-off between highly efficient automated systems and flexible manual operators is sought. The linear arrangement of workstations made it possible to divide the process into many s...
The assisted assembly of customized products supported by collaborative robots combined with mixed reality devices is the current trend in the Industry 4.0 concept. This article introduces an experimental work cell with the implementation of the assi...
Nowadays, the wire harness assembly process is still manually performed due to the process complexity and product variability (e.g., wires of different kind, size and length). The Wire cobots project, in which this work was conceived, aims at improvi...
The aeroengine industry has set strict upper limits for assembly errors in rotor-connecting processes, because assembly errors significantly affect aeroengine stability. Applications of multi-axis mechanisms have the potential to solve the low effici...
Established hairpin stators for electric traction motors are made up of a large number of so-called hairpins. To produce these stators, the individual hairpins must first be pre-assembled into an auxiliary device in order to achieve the desired windi...
A data-driven 3D simulation for the robotic automation of the most labor-intensive packaging process in meal kit production was developed using Tecnomatix plant simulation software. The workflow and environments of the existing manual process were an...
This study provides a set of designs, simulations and experiments for developing an actuating method for manual pipettes. The goal is to enable robotic manipulation and automatic pipetting, while using manual pipetting devices. This automation is des...
Using permanent magnets on a rotor can both simplify the design and increase the efficiency of electric machines compared to using electromagnets. A drawback, however, is the lack of existing automated assembly methods for large machines. This paper...
While early studies on macroscopic self-assembly peaked in the late 20th century, recent research continues to explore and expand the field’s potential through innovative materials and external control strategies. To harness this potential, a u...
The wire harness assembly process is a complicated manufacturing activity, which is becoming more complex because of the evolving nature of mechatronic and electronic products that require more connectors, sensors, controllers, communication networki...
This paper reports a case study using a standardization process for increasing efficiency and a better optimization of resources in a printing company with 150 operators having manual and mechanical tasks in the box assembly department along with fou...
This paper presents a novel method for online tool recognition in manual assembly processes. The goal was to develop and implement a method that can be integrated with existing Human Action Recognition (HAR) methods in collaborative tasks. We examine...
The integrity of product assembly in the precision assembly industry significantly influences the quality of the final products. During the assembly process, products may acquire assembly defects due to personnel oversight. A severe assembly defect c...
Products and assets are becoming increasingly “smart”, e.g., mechatronic, electronic, or cyber-physical. In the lack of fully reliable wireless solutions, extensive wiring and wire bundling into wire harnesses are needed. This has manufac...
This study investigates the effectiveness of the Xsens motion capture system in performing ergonomic analysis compared to traditional manual assessments by experts in the specific environment of assembly lines. A comprehensive literature review empha...
Energy efficiency and leakage magnetic field (LMF) are two important issues in electric vehicle inductive chargers. In this work, the maximum achievable coil efficiency and the corresponding LMF strength are formulated as functions of system paramete...
This paper presents a robotic assembly methodology for the manufacturing of large segmented composite structures. The approach addresses three key steps in the assembly process: panel localization and pick-up, panel transport, and panel placement. Mu...
The manufacturing of a high-precision servo valve belongs to multi-variety, small-batch, and customized production modes. In the process of assembly and commissioning, various characteristic parameters are critical indicators to measure product perfo...
The evolving landscape of industrial manufacturing is increasingly embracing automation within smart factories. However, the critical role of human operators, particularly in manual assembly and disassembly tasks, remains undiminished. This paper exp...
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