Digital system for smart injection molding production line

The goal of the experiment is to establish fully functional smart production line for production of injection moulded parts. The existing production line in the manufacturing company will be improved and equipped with the sensors, vision system and supported with the robots, cobots and SDV trough the NGSI agent’s and open source FIWARE context broker to the company’s MES and ERP system. The system will use the NGSI interface to collect and store the data from the production line, compare it with the MES system and send back the optimized information’s and tasks to the production line. The state of the art of the proposed production line is mobile collaborative robot which can be moved with SDV vehicle from one production line to the other for the pick and place operations (selfadjustable cobot – recognition of parts with vision system). The novel approach will be presented in the concept of vertical storage unit which will be fully monitored with the vision system installed above the storage unit and controlled on the data gathered from the vision system. The production line operations and capabilities will be increased with fully automated optimization system which will send the execution orders to production line based on data collected from the real-time environment.