Robotic selection of banded power semiconductors

科林伍德解决方案公司在交通运输、能源和使用电动驱动器和电机的建筑电气化领域拥有30多年的经验。驱动器是运输、建筑、农业和能源电气化的关键推动组件。它们用于航空航天、汽车、能源(发电、输电和消费)、工业、海洋、非公路和铁路应用。它们帮助系统脱碳，并从内燃系统转移到电力系统。它们是将安全、功率和应用的输入/输出信号结合在一起的复杂系统。预计到2025年，英国的驱动器市场将增长超过20亿GB。英国在设计这些系统方面处于世界领先地位，但英国国内的制造能力有限，因为今天我们在国外的低成本地点制造它们。为了使英国更具竞争力，我们需要更多地实现制造过程的自动化，降低成本，提高质量和生产率。该项目有助于这项工作。该项目开发了一个通用系统的框架，用于测试和选择驱动器中使用的电源设备。该项目将消除驱动器制造中最手动密集、容易出错和成本最高的过程之一。该项目将通过开发关键驱动程序、挑选、定位和呈现测试部件的机器人技术、测试系统、允许测试不同电源设备拓扑的夹具以及允许在制造过程中插入或放置设备的流程来实现部分自动化，所有这些都符合Industry 4.0。该项目将提供机器人、测试设备、围绕选择标准的人工智能和测试后设备的重新包装的规范。在英国开发的过程知识产权使英国成为一个吸引国际企业驻扎在英国的地点。这正是吸引外国直接投资的流程知识类型。该项目还将有助于英国与一些外国公司之间的国际合作，这些公司可能会寻求来英国获得工艺工程技能和研究能力。

Collingwood Solutions has over thirty years of experience in the electrification of transport, energy and construction using electric drives and motors.Drives are a key enabling component in the electrification of transport, construction, agriculture and energy. They are used in Aerospace, Automotive, Energy (Generation, transmission and consumption), Industrial, Marine, Off Highway and Rail applications. They help decarbonize systems and move from an internal combustion system to an electric system. They are complex systems combining safety, power and input/output signals for the application. The market for Drives in the UK is forecast to grow by over £2Bn by 2025\.The UK is a world leader in designing these systems however the UK domestic manufacturing capacity is limited as, today we manufacture them in low cost locations abroad. To make the UK more competitive we need to automate more of the manufacturing process, reducing cost and improving quality and productivity. This Project helps in that work.The project develops the framework for a universal system to test and select power devices for use in Drives.This project will remove one of the most manually intensive, error prone and expensive processes in the manufacture of a drive. The project will automate a part of the process of Drive manufacture by developing the key enablers, robotics to pick, orientate and present parts for testing, the testing systems, fixturing to allow for different power device topologies to be tested and a process to allow for insertion or placement of devices in the manufacturing process all being Industry 4.0 compliant.The project will deliver specifications for the Robotics, the testing equipment, the Artificial intelligence around the selection criteria and the repackaging of the devices following test.The process Intellectual Property developing in the UK is making the UK an attractive location for international businesses to locate here. This is exactly the type of process knowledge that will attract foreign direct investment. This project will also help international collaboration between the UK and some of the foreign companies who might seek to come here to access the process engineering skills and the research capability in the UK.