Transport robots
Autonomous transportation over three floors
Material flow system. Insystems Automation has developed a customized material flow system with autonomously navigating transport robots for the Swiss technology company Dyconex. The robots navigate over three floors using the existing elevator system and overcome various cleanliness zones as well as doors and airlocks.
The aim of the project was to eliminate manual material transportation through various departments and cleanroom zones. The transport robot system is intended to further increase cleanliness in production, as the customer's investigation has shown that this is a decisive factor for quality and rejects. Furthermore, the employees are to be relieved of the work interruptions caused by the manual transportation of containers to other floors with other cleanroom classes, with the respective changing of clothes and protective clothing, resulting in a loss of productivity and costs.
The Proant system makes it possible to continue using the existing racking system with minor adaptations and to integrate the elevator system into the material flow concept without any structural measures. The storage compartment management and control of the transport orders has been implemented with an intuitive touch panel solution, which minimizes the training effort and ensures a very high level of acceptance among the employees. Dyconex is a supplier of highly complex flexible, rigid-flexible and rigid HDI/microvia PCB and chip substrate solutions for all applications in which miniaturization, increased functionality, quality and maximum reliability play a role. The PCBs are manufactured under clean room conditions and the production processes are spread over three floors.
The transportation of PCBs, some of which are highly sensitive, was previously carried out manually by employees, who had to leave their workstations to do so, which was time-consuming. Employees often had to wait for the elevator and change their work clothes between the different cleanroom zones due to high cleanliness standards.
Insystems has developed a material flow solution that is fully integrated into the company's demanding environment. The autonomously navigating transport robots move across three floors, independently call the elevator system and communicate with the controls integrated in the automatic doors via the company's own communication network.
With the vehicles, it is easier to meet the high internal cleanliness standards than it is for people wearing textile clothing. Special mats are laid out for the transport robots in the passages to the cleanliness zones, over which the vehicles roll for cleaning. The goods to be transported are currently handed over or picked up at twelve fixed ports or racks (passive stations). The transport robots each have an active load pick-up with runners that can be moved to specific transfer heights of the individual compartments and can automatically pick up and transfer the containers. sw
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