Design and fabrication of intelligent material handling system in modern manufacturing with industry 4.0 approaches

Abstract

The influence of global economy has led to changes in the conventional approaches for manufacturing companies In this case manufacturing companies has taken under consideration several essential characteristics such as real time reaction to changes quick and quality response in satisfying customer requests in both hardware equipment and software modules by which the production processes are improved for next generation manufacturing system Nowadays material handling system for manufacturing purposes is the key component for any modern manufacturing processes Additionally due to high variety of products and shorter response times in today rsquo s manufacturing industry the demand for smart material handling system has increased Therefore to recover these demands custom built systems should be implemented which requires individually created control software which deals with flow control product routings and layout and products distribution Therefore this paper aims to design and fabricate smart material handling system This system includes conveyors robot and sensors Conveyors are designed in such a way that it can facilitate easy and has a safe loading and unloading which is done with a robotic arm To make the system smart it is integrated with sensors in order to be able to distinguish and distribute objects