The manufacturing industry always has been one of the leading energy consumers, so
companies in this area are always trying to use the best tools provided by the evolution
of the technology, to analyse and lower the production costs. Many known studies don’t
mind inconveniences such as stopping the production of the factory to perform studies
or deep architecture improvements in the transport system.
The proposed solution offers two different sets of tools. A device adapter, that targets
the gather and storage of data, from industrial robotic cells devices, being the main requirement
for a data analysis application, and a data analysis system, that analyses the
stored data, without changing the existing production model. The analysis procedure
aims the energy usage of a cell and its robot, and the duration of the executed processes.
This solution was tested in two different robotic cells, that execute the same process.
Multiple executions with different robot velocities were performed in order to gather
the required data to provide an analysis and the conclusion was that, for both cells, the
energy usage for each executed product was lower when the robot speed was higher, and
that one of the cells is more efficient that other cell when executing at high speed but less
efficient on lower velocities
