FSJ: FMS for independent and collaborative production
The Flexible Smart Job Shop (FSJ) is a combination of advanced technologies, software, artificial intelligence and vision (AI), robotic and automation solutions for dynamically facing the challenges of the modern market.
FSJ manufactures fast. Adapts faster.
FSJ integrates advanced cutting and separation, bending and panel bending technologies, combining them with automatic and/or robotized devices and solutions for the loading and unloading, handling and intermediate transfer of materials. The result is a modular and scalable solution that optimizes production efficiency, reduces factory entropy and maximizes the performance of every single system.
Product overview
FSJ combines evolved technologies for cutting, sorting, bending and panel bending, combining them with automatic and robotic solutions for the loading, unloading, handling and intermediate transfer of materials.
Cutting, separation, and forming solutions
Bending solutions
Independent machines
The laser cuts the sheet metal. MCU sorts the parts on the table (1) while the P-Robot picks up the parts from the loading station and stacks them as needed (2). The operator ends the bending on the press brake (3).
Convergent production
Production flow for kits. Once the cutting process is complete, MCU sorts the parts and puts them on the conveyor. P-Robot picks them up and produces them autonomously thanks to RVS. The production can be sent to a downstream operation (1) or stacked dynamically (2).
Today, operating steps in factories and workshops often take place in departments that are physically distant from each other, resulting in logistical and productive inefficiencies.
The innovative idea behind the Flexible Smart Job Shop is to compact the technologies, eliminating distances in the factory to permit adjacent processing and therefore reduce lead times and minimize superfluous movements, without compromising operational flexibility.
The FSJ comprises integrated systems and technologies that operate in an optimized and compact space. Even if they were designed to mainly operate in stand-alone mode, they can also operate in a continuous flow, thanks to automatic intermediate handling and artificial vision solutions.
The main advantage of this configuration is the reduction in factory entropy: while working with different technologies, production can proceed with certain, balanced times and through efficient work flows.
Various elements contribute toward the application versatility of the FSJ:
- advanced software programming
- intelligent sorting
- evolved bending technologies
- automatic intermediate handling
Salvagnini has developed and optimized all of these aspects through unique, modular and scalable solutions that are able to optimize factory space, logistics and store management, guaranteeing maximum efficiency, and productivity.
Software
Industry has changed: flexibility and efficiency are fundamental requirements for managing increasingly smaller batches or rapid item turnover rate. And developments in technology have in some way upset the balance between workloads, with increasingly fast systems which however need to be guided by more and more specific machine programs, the generation of which is increasingly time-consuming. This is why software is increasingly crucial to improving the efficiency of machinery.
Salvagnini’s IoT solution, increases the global efficiency of the line. LINKS allows real-time monitoring of the machine’s performance and independent analysis.