Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
8th International Scientific-Technical Conference Manufacturing, MANUFACTURING 2024, Poznan, Polonya, 14 - 16 Mayıs 2024, ss.43-56
Collaborative robots present promising solutions to partial automation of assembly workstations to combine the workers’ flexibility and robots’ capability to apply force and speed. To assess and visualize the time-related work characteristics, models can be generated. Digital human modelling (DHM) enables to design and analyze motions, required time, and several ergonomic assessments through developing simulation models. In this study, a Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) system is built using Siemens JACK software. Three different scenarios are developed for a gear pump assembly workstation to compare the physical workload of the worker when different number of cobots are utilized. Furthermore, other objective parameters like productivity and cycle time as an outcome of the human–robot task allocation are calculated within the software. The presented approach demonstrates the advantages of the collaborative work between the worker and the cobot in a shared workplace and evaluate different allocations of the tasks. The results reveal significant improvements for worker’ conditions in terms of several physical workload aspects and productivity when certain assembly tasks are assigned to cobots.