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Taiwan Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association
How to make the best use of the work force at a
factory and to enhance the production efficiency are
the topics which all manufacturing enterprise need
to continuously think so as to maintain their high
competitiveness. Under the non-stop progress of
technology, there is also a new wave of changes at the
factory working environment while integrating the
professional technologies in all fields.
This ar ticle introduces a real case that a
professional fitness manufacturer has established
a no-manual-delivery and intelligent system with
automatic inspections on the assemble line of fitness
equipment, which indicates the importance of factory
automation.
The background to implement
the intelligent automation
system
Taking the production of commercial treadmills
as an example, the total weight of a treadmill’s
parts is about 50 kilograms. On the assembling
process, the responsible person has to carry out
the function tests and write down the results on
the manufacturing control sheets. After delivery,
the manufacturing sheets shall be filed. And after
the assembling, the whole treadmill weights
around 300 kilograms. Then, the treadmills will
be moved to the packaging line to be dismantled
and packaged. At last, they will be piled upon the
pallets for shipments.
The manufacturing problems which a factory
encounters can be attributed into the following
3 points, which shall be treated as priorities of
problem solving.
1.
The treadmill packaging personnel needs to
take charge of all the parts and final products
deliveries. The weight is not light at all. There
is a possibility of industrial safety accident on
the delivering process. In order to reduce the
happenings of accidents, the manufacturing