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Engaged in non-standard automation equipment development, how to improve the organization design capacity?

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@ free

What is non-standard? That is, customized production equipment for customers, with minimal liquidity! I have been engaged in this industry for many years, and have cooperated with various companies, some of which are among the top 500 companies in the world, and some of which are small foreign capital. First contact Taiwan equipment, the Japanese equipment, American equipment, Korean equipment, Italy and Spain also contact, each style! When many colleagues are engaged in this industry, they are always in harmony with dough, instead of turning into noodles. In fact, what we need is a drawstring pull, a main line, and another branch. No matter it is the design, the team stand or the field debugging, there should be a clear line at all times! Non-standard in the premise of meeting customer demand, what is the most important? I think it's stability! If you make a device that can be used for N hours without troubleshooting, you've succeeded! Just like a car, it has panoramic sunroof, adaptive cruise, automatic parking, one-button start Wait, are these important? What's important is that it's loud, fail-safe, clear steering, how many airbags These basic functions are the most important. The rest are auxiliary functions. Otherwise, the automatic becomes semi-automatic, semi-automatic becomes manual, and the jig becomes purely manual. Non-standard remaining such as production cost, beat, security, ergonomic compliance, easy maintenance, friendly interface, and so on, are auxiliary! To achieve stability, the factors of influence are two: institution and control.

First of all, the organization must be carefully considered before designing the organization, which determines the space of the equipment. It will waste a lot of time and energy if you tear it down and start again. It is not necessary to design an NB organization, but an appropriate one, which requires experience accumulation (such as reference).

I have always believed that if simple institutions can be satisfied, complex institutions must not be used. Whether from cost consideration or late maintenance, it is harmful and unhelpful. Why is Volkswagen santana still running through the streets? Even a motorcycle mechanic can fix a few breakdowns! For some processes without experience accumulation, experimental verification must be done!!! There is still a gap between theory and practice. The selection of standard parts of the mechanism is also important. Inappropriate standard parts directly affect the production quality and service life. For example, the diameter of cylinder is small, leading to insufficient or unstable riveting. The second is the control. The control part consists of component and program (including circuit). Components mainly selection, A lot of mechanical design engineer to control element A little knowledge, such as sensor, thinks he can choose A, and practical to use often leads to cause alarm equipment, or servo motor does not calculate the torque caused by not enough rigidity, CCD not calculate area and pixel accuracy can not meet the requirements, screw from pitch that beats can't keep up with, and so on, these are often similar to low-level mistakes! Is part of the program and circuit, without stopping, reset doesn't work, must pass electricity restart, drag chain rapid exhumation multiconductor broken, while the fault does not directly lead to rising costs, but in the process of rule out spend a lot of time, sometimes to a signal alarm, a cause to waste the time of day to troubleshoot

Two wise men

@ Tony W

Read more books. 2. See more FA standard parts, recommend midmeter, SMC cylinder, FESTO TOYO linear module, HIWIN,THK sliding block slide rail, panasonic servo motor, lessee stepping motor (advertising is suspect, but you will know it after use). Knowing more about these can help design. Once encountered an open mechanism, the family used more than a dozen parts to make, later seen in others, with a SMC finger cylinder solved. 4. Communicate with technical personnel of electrical equipment or learn the contents of electrical equipment, and develop integrated talents of mechanical (organization) electricity (control) fluid (power: pressure, hydraulic). Then, if you are just starting to do non-standard automation equipment, look for "FA industrial automation equipment design basics" by Duyeslin to help. FA industrial automation equipment design foundation

Three wise men

@ xigaze

As a qualified mechanical engineer, you should first have necessary basic knowledge and industry background, drawing, tolerance, labeling, materials, processing and so on. Every designer, most avoid a little knowledge, according to the gourd painting gourd gourd, not very understanding. Many research designs excellent structure, there are a lot of ingenious design is very worth learning. In addition, the commonly used automated parts must take more time to look at, a bit of research.

Some engineers, when they chose our uniaxial robot arm (VINKO), did not look at the basic technical parameters, but already selected the model. Waste in vain. As an engineer, there is nothing more frustrating than an assembly failure, and nothing more frustrating than a debugging failure. When you achieve the desired design results at once, you can be independent.

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@ assassin

Mechanical engineers work in general is to foreign equipment localization "- you speak of is to is wrong, to learn - imitation - this is a process of innovation, China started in the ninety s that the backward situation, the beginning is only copy and imitation, but on the other hand with the development of the domestic industry more than ten years, some sectors are already closing in on the world mainstream level, some areas on the other hand under the trend of internationalization, technical things, has both" domestic "/" foreign ", but "I can"/" I will "such distinctions.

"Select and match according to customer needs" -- maybe you and I are in different industries, and do not know each other well.

The skilled mechanical engineer will not be able to improve much in the future, and the salary will not be doubled as easily as it is now. Where is the future?" - 00 years industry began to blowout development, after years of high-speed strides forward is now stepping into the posing development, in simple terms between the company competitive/personnel pay rational objective, non-standard automation machinery engineer salary from 5 ~ 15 k k (if you count extra project was really handsome dividends), double really won't, but engineering, regardless of faith! Feelings hobby! Not to mention, is comfortable, hungry deathless also send not fortune.

In terms of project dividends, some companies don't have them at all, some companies get a dividend of 1%~5% of the total selling price, and some companies get a dividend of specific percentage points of the project profits. How do you pay dividends? Some are given a certain percentage of the people involved, some are given to the entire team and then assigned freely and so on. For the future, it's mostly the case for traditional technical jobs - safe savings experience upgrading to a higher-level technical position/switching to management, sales, being the boss himself.

I do not know what your expectations or dreams are, a stable life, a skill to live without worry is also a leisurely life road.