Robotized clips mounting in automobile seats cushion mold cavity

Abstract: Industrial automation system ability to ease factories and manufacturing applications by using advance technologies like robot has gone beyond replacing manually practiced jobs but to the integration of machines and materials for time and cost efficiency. Today the robot receives almost utmost degree of significance in automation process in all fields of manufacturing systems. Robots as flexible tool that can carry varieties of tasks with great accuracy, speed and durability make its way to every possible application that done manually or hard automation in the pass. Number one advantage robot has outnumbered the other candidates as an automation choice is ability to clearly run the process in simulation and offline programming which is a proper solution to save time and money. This thesis report discusses the automation process of car seat cushion moulding clips mounting. It discusses how robot simulation answers questions concerning the cushion clips mounting. A ROBCAD simulation is conducted and a work cell with selected robot is simulated. Methods for selection of the robot are presented and robot work cell is built the robot performance and results are presented at the beginning. A clip mounting gripper is developed and a discussion of the actuation system is given. The thesis also entitled discussions in parts that considered completion of the robot work cell these parts are parts feeding system and the tracking of the moving work object.