System and method for mounting an item of switchgear cabinet equipment of modular construction
AssigneeRittal GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsThomas Weichsel, Thomas Michels, Lars Martin, Judith Zachrai
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Abstract
A system and method for mounting a modular switch cabinet equipment in a switch cabinet housing (6) includes a computer-aided assistance unit (1) for determining a production-efficient assembly step sequence. The system and method further include at least one display unit (11-11′) for image and/or text information, which is installed at the assembly site for at least one fitter (M) in order to visualize manual assembly steps (A; B; D) of the determined assembly step sequence. The system and method further includes at least one input unit (12-12′) for acknowledgement of the completed assembly step (A; B; D) by the fitter (M).
Claims9
A method for mounting a modular switch cabinet equipment in a switch cabinet housing (6), which is equipped with at least one fastening means for a plurality of electrical or electronic installation modules (5-5′″), the method comprising the following steps:
- a) provision of a planned design (2) for an application-specific configuration of the switch cabinet equipment to a computer-aided assistance unit (1),
- b) preparation for assembly by analysis of the planned design(2) and disassembly into individual assembly steps (A, B, C, D) which build on one another and are to be carried out by a fitter (M) or a robot device (R) by the computer-aided assistance unit (1) for determining an efficient assembly step sequence, wherein in case (1) where the fitter (M) is designated to carry out an assembly step (A;
- B;
- D) of the determined assembly step sequence, the following steps are carried out by the fitter (M):
- c) visualization of a manual assembly step (A) of the determined assembly step sequence by a display unit (11-11″) installed at an assembly site for the fitter (M) for image and/or text information as assembly instructions,
- d) performance of the manual assembly step (A) by the fitter (M) in accordance with the image and/or text information,
- e) acknowledgement of completion of the manual assembly step (A) via an input unit (12-12″) installed for the fitter (M) at the assembly site for logging the completion and for calling up a next planned assembly step (B) by the computer-aided assistance unit 1), wherein, in addition to the steps c) to e) to be carried out manually by the fitter (M) according to the case (I), at least one automated assembly step (C) to be carried out with the aid of a robot is defined in a case (II) as a result of an analysis by the computer-aided assistance unit (1),
- wherein the automated assembly step (C) c′) is issued by the computer-aided assistance unit (1) in the form of machine-readable assembly instructions for the assembly of the switch cabinet equipment to the robot device (R);
- wherein d′) the robot device (R) carries out the automated assembly step (C) in accordance with robot control, and
- e′) after completion of the automated assembly step (C), the computer-aided assistant unit (1) acknowledges the automated assembly step (C) to log the completion and to call up a final assembly step (D).
A system for mounting a modular switch cabinet equipment in a switch cabinet housing (6), which is equipped with at least one fastening means for a plurality of electrical or electronic installation modules (5-5′″), the system comprising:
- a computer-aided assistance unit (1);
- a display unit (11-11″);
- an input unit (12-12″);
- and
- an analysis algorithm;
- wherein the computer-aided assistance unit, the display unit, and the input unit are implemented to perform the following steps:
- a) provision of a planned design (2) for an application-specific configuration of the switch cabinet equipment to the computer-aided assistance unit (1),
- b) preparation for assembly by analysis of the planned design(2) and disassembly into individual assembly steps (A, B, C, D) which build on one another and are to be carried out by a fitter (M) or a robot device (R) by the computer-aided assistance unit (1) for determining an efficient assembly step sequence, wherein in case (I) where the fitter (M) is designated to carry out an assembly step (A;
- B;
- D) of the determined assembly step sequence, the following steps are carried out by the fitter (M):
- c) visualization of a manual assembly step (A) of the determined assembly step sequence by the display unit (11-11″) installed at an assembly site for the fitter (M) for image and/or text information as assembly instructions,
- d) performance of the manual assembly step (A) by the fitter (M) in accordance with the image and/or text information,
- e) acknowledgement of completion of the manual assembly step (A) via the input unit (12-12″) installed for the fitter (M) at the assembly site for logging the completion and for calling up a next planned assembly step (B) by the computer-aided assistance unit 1), wherein, in addition to the steps c) to e) to be carried out manually by the fitter (M) according to the case (I), at least one automated assembly step (C) to be carried out with the aid of a robot is defined in a case (II) as a result of an analysis by the computer-aided assistance unit (1),
- wherein the automated assembly step (C) c′) is issued by the computer-aided assistance unit (1) in the form of machine-readable assembly instructions for the assembly of the switch cabinet equipment to the robot device (R);
- wherein d′) the robot device (R) carries out the automated assembly step (C) in accordance with robot control, and
- e′) after completion of the automated assembly step (C), the computer-aided assistant unit (1) acknowledges the automated assembly step (C) to log the completion and to call up a final assembly step (D).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.