A Study and Development of Machine Tools Monitoring and Demonstration System

• Main Authors: Shu-Yun Wei, 魏書筠
• Other Authors: Yao-Hsien Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72925005595989321344

碩士 === 實踐大學 === 資訊科技與管理學系碩士班 === 103 === In today’s advanced manufacturing industries, machine tools are used to manufacture metal parts for various industries such as aerospace, military, machinery industry and multiple others. According to Gardner Research (2015), Taiwan has maintained a high production of competiveness in machine tools manufacturing, but did Korea, Japan and China as well. Thus, Taiwan has emphasized its importance in maintaining its global competiveness in the machine tools industry. Currently, Taiwan's machine tools industries advertise via a traditional method of marketing by using static videos and leaflets. In addition, numerous workers have to operate each machine tool individually with various production rates. Thus, to enhance Taiwan’s stance amongst its competitors, it is necessary to integrate high-tech technology into the machine tools industries. After the proposal of Industry 4.0, several manufacturing industries began developing unmanned and automated factories. Along with global industrial upgrading via the creation of IoT (Internet of Things), cloud computing, and wearable technology, has led to an increase in convenience, manageability, and accessibility of accessing information immediately. Thus, the need to create a system that integrates smart factories and technology is demonstrated via the machine tools monitoring and demonstration system (MTMD system). By utilizing the MTMD system via wearable technology with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), will allow industries to monitor and manage their production level in real-time with ease and efficiency. Thus, the implementation of the MTMD system will greatly enhance Taiwan's competitive role in the machine tools industry worldwide. In addition, the MTMD includes adopting AR and VR in marketing, where potential clientele will not only be able to observe the details of various machine tools in 3D in AR, but will also be able to see how each machine tool operates in 3D animation. In addition, viewing products in AR & VR will bring Taiwan’s machine tools industries into the limelight. MTMD also encompasses the combination of Google Glass to access each machine tool’s data by creating an automated monitoring and maintenance system. By adopting an indoor localization technology iBeacon, MTMD is able to collect and access data in cloud from various machine tools via in an energy efficient manner immediately. In addition, MTMD allows each operator to analyze and monitor the production level of each machine tool and make immediate adjustments if necessary of maintenance or production enhancement. Thus, the induction of MTMD will aid in achieving real-time maintenance as well as production levels of machine tools in the machine tools industries of Taiwan.