Design of automated equipment for the assembly of automotive parts

摘要

The automotive industry has greatly developed in recent years, by automation of repetitive tasks. This enables to increase productivity and reduce errors due to labor-intensive tasks. The present work aims to design equipment for the automatic assembly of components for the automotive industry, thus achieving a major gain compared to the current manual production. The product to be assembled is a cable connector, which is comprised of a connector box, front support and lever. After the initial sketches, in which the types of mechanisms and the desired functions of the different systems were defined as a function of the intended movements and actions and the equipment structure, these systems were designed to obtain a functional unit as the final result. The moving system was also designed, powered by pneumatics. The end result is a fully-functional solution to apply in this type of equipment. The proposed solution is a viable possibility of automated equipment for automotive components’ assembly.