Authors:
Antonello Calò
1
;
Davide Buratti
1
;
Dario Lodi Rizzini
2
and
Stefano Caselli
2
Affiliations:
1
OCME S.r.l., Italy
;
2
University of Parma, Italy
Keyword(s):
Industrial Machine, Simulation, Visual Programming.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Industrial Engineering
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent Design and Manufacturing
;
Modeling, Simulation and Architectures
;
Production Planning, Scheduling and Control
;
Robotics and Automation
Abstract:
In this paper, we discuss the advantages and the issues of simulation and visual programming of palletizing machines and, in general, palletizing lines, and we illustrate an integrated software tool suite that meets such requirements. The increasing complexity of lines and the variability of product formats require a common machine model for all the tools, together with the independence from visualization to allow software reuse and extendibility. Furthermore, the model should also be able to include palletizing line components external to the machine that are critical for performance and whose model is only partially known.