Implementation of Industry 4.0 Production Line for Intelligent Manufacture - A Case Study on Production Test Line of Notebooks

• Main Authors: Hung-Ta Lin, 林宏達
• Other Authors: Tzer-Shyong Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ym24g8

碩士 === 東海大學 === 高階經營管理碩士在職專班 === 103 === Being impacted by global ageing population and low fertility, labor shortage has become more obvious in many countries and the manpower cost is enhancing. In face of the rising prices of raw materials and manpower costs as well as production efficiency and quality, the idea of Industry 4.0 was proposed in the fourth generation industrial revolution, when automation and intelligent technologies were integrated to enhance the output value and efficiency of production lines by substituting manpower with automatic equipment. It helped solve the problem of manpower demands and introduce robots into automatic equipment as the development strategy. To understand the effects of Industry 4.0 on modern industry, literatures on Internet of Things, machine vision recognition system, robot & robotic arm, and Industry 4.0 are reviewed to understand the application and contribution as well as to define the systems and devices for the research. Connecting production line equipment with Internet of Things, artificial operation is upgraded to machine vision assisted intelligent robot manufacturing for the application to production lines so as to produce delicate products and promote industrial intelligence. Moreover, the life cycle of current products is largely reduced, and the products are being developed towards diversity, multiplicity, and elaboration to have high-freedom multi-axial robotic arms become the development mainstream. This study aims to investigate image processing system, robotic arm, manufacturing system, and Internet of Things on intelligent production lines for the analysis. The laptop computer production lines in C company is selected for the case study. The production and inspection are demonstrated through the intelligent production line system in order to discuss the difference in manpower and intelligent inspection benefits after introducing intelligent production lines. Possible situations and problems in the application of intelligent production lines are further discussed for the reference of future researchers and relevant industries.