DIALOG - Dynamic Integration of Automation with LOGistic

该项目专门致力于提高英国制造业的生产力和敏捷性。目前的制造系统缺乏敏捷性，制造过程中有太多的非增值活动。自动化系统应该更好地将人员、生产机械和内部物流整合到整体的、适应性强的系统中。通过使用自主的移动的机器人将自动化与物流相结合，提供了比传统制造系统技术更大的灵活性，并且物流的整合通过消除非增值活动提供了提高生产力的巨大潜力。DIALOG项目通过提供可以将自主制造自动化与物流能力集成的技术来专门解决这一业务需求。自动化和机器人技术的最新进展为DIALOG方法提供了市场机会--将经济实惠的自主移动的机器人（AMR）和协作机器人机械手技术融合在面向实际应用的解决方案中，形成移动的机械手（MMR）。DIALOG创新地汇集了一系列技术，使MMR解决方案能够有效地在制造应用中交付。该项目涉及机械模块化，可配置的控制逻辑和集成。这将允许参考相关标准对MMR进行即插即用配置，并使此类系统更容易设计和优化。该项目旨在将MMR方法应用于制造，并提供必要的工具和方法。该项目联盟已经在与自主产品交付、货到人子装配系统和用于批量过程材料供应的机器维护自动化相关的选定用例中做了重要的基础工作。项目合作伙伴的用例和演示涵盖汽车和航空航天、紧固件以及食品和饮料行业。还将通过利益集团和中小企业集团研究电池组装、园艺和建筑的更广泛适用性。主要项目交付成果将包括三个应用领域的MMR需求捕获（一般和具体），MMR模块化设计、控制和集成IT集成框架的能力，和支持工程工具的概念验证实现三个应用领域的示范。这个工业研究项目是（1）主要侧重于Made Smarter主题4，目标是适应性和灵活的制造业务，以及以人为本的活动的作用和在此背景下的技能发展，（2）主题1范围的要素，涉及智能互联工厂，其实时连接以及生产自动化和工厂内物流的更大整合。

This project is specifically focused on improving productivity and agility within UK manufacturing. There is a significant lack of agility in current manufacturing systems together with too many non-value-adding activities within manufacturing processes. Automation systems should better-integrate people, production machinery, and internal logistics in holistic, adaptable systems. The integration of automation with logistics via the use of autonomous mobile robots provides far greater agility than traditional manufacturing systems technologies, and the integration of logistics offers very significant potential to improve productivity through elimination of non-value-adding activities. The DIALOG project specifically addresses this business need via the provision of technology that can integrate autonomous manufacturing automation with logistics capabilities. Recent advancements in automation and robotics technologies now provide a market opportunity for the DIALOG approach -- a fusion of affordable autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and collaborative robotic manipulator technology in practical applications-oriented solutions to form mobile manipulator robots (MMRs).DIALOG innovatively brings together a set of technologies to enable MMR solutions to be effectively delivered in manufacturing applications. The project addresses mechanical modularity, configurable control logic, and integration. This will allow plug and play configuration of MMRs with reference to relevant standards and enable such systems to the engineered and optimised more easily.The project is targeted on applying the MMR approach into manufacturing and providing the necessary tools and methods. The project consortium has already done significant foundational work in selected use cases related to autonomous product delivery, goods-to-person subassembly systems, and machine tending automation for the supply of batch process materials. The project partner use-cases and demonstrations span the automotive and aerospace, fastening, and food and drink sectors. Wider applicability to battery assembly, horticulture and construction is also to be investigated via interest and SME groups. The principal project deliverables will include MMR requirements capture across three application domains both generically and specifically, capabilities for MMR modular design, control and integration IT Integration frameworks, and supporting engineering tools for proof of concept implementations on three application domain demonstrators.This industrial research project is (1) primarily focused on Made Smarter Theme 4 targeting adaptable and flexible manufacturing operations and the role of human-centric activities and the evolution of skills in this context, with (2) elements of Theme 1 scope in relation to the smart connected factory, its real-time connectivity and the far greater integration of production automation and in-factory logistics.