Retrofitting a factory automation system to address market needs and societal changes

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis E. Gonzalez Moctezuma ◽  
Jani Jokinen ◽  
Corina Postelnicu ◽  
Jose L. Martinez Lastra
Keyword(s):  
Automation System ◽  
Factory Automation ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Market Needs

High Volume and Fast Turnaround Automated Inline TEM Sample Preparation for Manufacturing Process Monitoring

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyoung H. Kang ◽  
John F. King ◽  
Oliver D. Patterson ◽  
Steven B. Herschbein ◽  
James P. Nadeau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Process Monitoring ◽  
Preparation Method ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Sample Preparation Method ◽  
Factory Automation ◽  
Manufacturing Line ◽  
Tem Lamella

Abstract This paper introduces a high volume and fast turnaround TEM sample preparation method and requirements for a 300 mm inline DualBeam (FIB/SEM) system with “hands-off” full automation. It requires a factory automation system, robust automated recipes, and an ex-situ TEM lamella liftout system. It describes the recipe structure and TEM lamella lift out procedures. The focus is on fully automated TEM sample preparation for process monitoring in manufacturing line. Two successful examples are described to demonstrate the benefit of this method. The first one is TEM sample for CA profile at M1 level. The second is TEM sample for poly crystalline (PC) line profile at post-etch.

Design of WLAN based system for fast protocol factory automation system

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Maria ◽  
D. K. Lam ◽  
L. Lanante ◽  
Y. Nagao ◽  
M. Kurosaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Automation System ◽  
Factory Automation

On the Updating of Domain OWL Models at Runtime in Factory Automation Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Puttonen ◽  
Andrei Lobov ◽  
José L. Martinez Lastra
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
World View ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Factory Automation ◽  
World State ◽  
Automation Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Update Rules

Software agents controlling production devices must maintain an up-to-date view of the physical world state in order to efficiently reason and plan their actions. Especially in a factory automation system, the world state undergoes rapid evolution. To enable accurate decision-making, the world view must constantly be synchronized with the changes. This paper discusses two approaches to updating the world view based on event notifications sent by web services representing production devices in a manufacturing system. One approach requires that a set of update rules is separately specified, whereas the other involves automatically deriving the update rules from the semantic web service descriptions. While this paper specifically focuses on the factory automation domain, both of the approaches presented are applicable to other domains as well. The main assumptions are that the domain is composed of world-altering web services, which provide adequate service interfaces to detect changes in their state, and that all relevant changes in the overall domain state can be directly derived from the service state changes.

On the Updating of Domain OWL Models at Runtime in Factory Automation Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 1665-1685
Author(s):  
Juha Puttonen ◽  
Andrei Lobov ◽  
José L. Martinez Lastra
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
World View ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Factory Automation ◽  
World State ◽  
The World ◽  
Update Rules ◽  
Service State

Software agents controlling production devices must maintain an up-to-date view of the physical world state in order to efficiently reason and plan their actions. Especially in a factory automation system, the world state undergoes rapid evolution. To enable accurate decision-making, the world view must constantly be synchronized with the changes. This paper discusses two approaches to updating the world view based on event notifications sent by web services representing production devices in a manufacturing system. One approach requires that a set of update rules is separately specified, whereas the other involves automatically deriving the update rules from the semantic web service descriptions. While this paper specifically focuses on the factory automation domain, both of the approaches presented are applicable to other domains as well. The main assumptions are that the domain is composed of world-altering web services, which provide adequate service interfaces to detect changes in their state, and that all relevant changes in the overall domain state can be directly derived from the service state changes.

Distributed Anthropocentric FA System - Manufacturing Machine and Human Interface with Intervention Support System -

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 468-474
Author(s):  
Jie Zhu ◽  
◽  
Tohru Ihara ◽  
Kimihiro Amano ◽  
Hiroyuki Hiraoka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Human Judgment ◽  
Factory Automation ◽  
Human Interface ◽  
Variable Quantity ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Manufacturing Machine

This paper proposes an intervention support system between a manufacturing machine and a human for an anthropocentric factory automation system, which deals with feasible human interfaces and which treats unexpected problems in variable-kind variable-quantity production. In such production, repair tasks, dependent on non-deterministic human judgment, are required for raising the restorative capability of the system. An intervention support system using data carriers, engineering workstations, a point-of-production system, and PLC language is constructed. In this intervention support system, workers can understand the entire system, and heuristic information from tasks is easily accumulated as a result of experience at the shop-floor level.

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