The Industrial Revolution Is The Midwife Of Automation Technology - Increasing Labor Productivity
Industrial information refers to the collection, transmission, processing and comprehensive utilization of information through information infrastructure and integrated platform in the process of industrial production, management and operation.
1.The transportation, storage, management and control of materials mainly rely on manual implementation, and its real-time and intuitiveness are obvious advantages. Manual storage technology also has advantages in the economic indicators of initial equipment investment.
2.Materials can be moved and handled by a wide variety of conveyors, industrial conveyors, robots, cranes, sackers and lifts, materials can be stored with shelf pallets and removable shelves, mechanical access to equipment can be manually operated, and the operation of equipment can be controlled with limit switches, screw mechanical brakes and mechanical monitors. Mechanization meets the requirements of speed, accuracy, height, weight, repeated access and handling.
3.In the stage of automated storage technology, automation technology has played an important role in promoting storage technology and development. In the late 1950s and 1960s, automatic guidance car (AGV), automatic shelving, automatic access robot, automatic identification and automatic sorting systems were successively developed and adopted. In the 1970s and 1980s, rotary shelves, mobile shelves, lane-type sackers and other handling equipment joined the ranks of automatic control, but at this time it was only the local automation of each equipment and their own independent applications, known as "automation islands". With the development of computer technology, the focus of work has shifted to the control and management of materials, requiring real-time, coordination and integration. Communication between computers, data collection points, controllers of mechanical equipment and between them and the main computer can summarize information in a timely manner. Warehouse computers can record orders and arrival times in a timely manner and display inventory. Planners can easily make supply decisions, they know what is being produced, what goods are ordered, when to ship what goods, and managers know the supply and demand at all times. The application of information technology has become an important pillar of storage technology.
4.In the late 1970s and 1980s, automation technology was increasingly used in the field of production and distribution, and it was clear that "automation islands" needed to be integrated, so the concept of "integrated systems" was formed. In the integrated system, the organic cooperation of the whole system makes the overall benefit and the strain capacity of production much more than the sum of the independent benefits of each part.
As the center of material storage in CIMS-Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS-Computer Integrated Manufacturing System), integrated warehouse technology has been paid more attention. Although people have noticed system integration in the 1980s, there are not many integrated storage systems that have been built in China so far. In the integrated system includes people, equipment and control system, the preceding three stages are the foundation.
5.Intelligent automated storage technology, artificial intelligence technology has developed automation technology to a more advanced stage - intelligent automation direction. Intelligent automated storage technology is still in the initial stage of development, and the intelligent storage technology will have broad application prospects in the 20th century
