Automated Modular Architecture with Cooperative Facilities

Abstract

The studies and experiments performed by the authors in order to implement a semi-fabricated AGV transfer system led to the need to identify solutions that would allow predictive maintenance as well as intervention with dead times as low as possible. Under these conditions the authors propose a specific modular design concept that ensures a significant increase in system reliability. Each redesigned module has its own predictive maintenance test procedure, communicating with the central system that oversees general maintenance. If one of the modules generates a warning signal, the central system will decide either to continue the activity with warning metering, or, depending on the degree of accusation, by calling the intervention service and by rapidly modifying the defect subsystem due to the modular design. The article presents the experiments on modular redesign and the concept of modularized predictive maintenance management.