SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF EQUIPMENT FOR UNLOADING LONG METAL BARS.

The dynamics of human society is directly related to the dependence on automation, and we can no longer produce almost anything without industrial automation. Automation is often associated with the industrial field, but automation has penetrated many areas of everyday life. Domains such as environmental protection, global trade, car, naval or rail traffic (increasingly intense), agriculture, construction and last but not least the medical field are some examples in which automation is present and in which they have a decisive role. This studied equipment is part of a technological flow to produce rectified and chromed bars intended to produce rods for hydraulic cylinders. Also, it can be used in two points of the manufacturing flow (translation for the rectification operation, or translation for the packaging operation) and has the role of moving the bars from one production line to another or from the chrome-plating operation to the packaging. The equipment was modelled virtually and checked for correct operation. During operation, there is sometimes a need for a mobile system of the equipment to be able to be positioned in various operating points, an operation that must be performed in the shortest possible time. This repositioning is ensured by a property called controllability. These positionings were performed through virtual simulations of the behaviour of the functional components of the equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]