The world of Design and the manufacturing industry is facing a new era, the fourth industrial revolution. After the changes that IT brought in the last 30 years the availability of sensors and low-cost connection modules as well as the ability to transfer information at high speed are transforming the products and the way they are made. These technological possibilities are opening new ways for an organizational change, moving from a vertical to a horizontal and acentric network production where not only information and data are shared but above all knowledge and skills. The new technologies and the new realization approach modify the value chain perceived by the consumer, profoundly changing the business model and applying deep transformations into the society. Quite because of the changes that our reality is now facing consumers demand more comprehensive projects, integrated with digital tools and able to interconnect to offer a more complete and inclusive experience. The birth of the Design of the Internet of Things, (IoT) is due to distruptive views that give us new purposes and meanings to everyday objects, offering them new possibilities and roads still to be followed. After the creation of the first consumer-objects, as Wearable, Smart Tracker or Home automation systems that include household appliances (both white and blacks), the new frontier of Industrial design is the the Internet of Things Industry (IIOT). To meet this definition, Smart Machines must be able to share their informations with other machines (Machine 2 Machine Communication) or with the users, in order to be both autonomous in the management of production cycles as remotely controllable. Unlike from IoT, the new generation machines have to be adaptable, to respond quickly to requests for an Industry always changing, to be scalable to accommodate different production volumes always offering quality standards that digital manufacturing control offered in last few years. Xone meets these needs of the Smart Factory: it is an modular assistant for general machining, able to adapt quickly to the different production methods offering the possibility to handle different volumes via Swarm Robotics, namely self-organized small-robots able to follow tasks and not only instruction Xone wants to introduce in factories an instrument suited to modern times. It is not a replacement for the mass production methods but rather a tool that can assist the operators to perform generic operations quickly and safety, both on land and at high heights. It wants to respond the need to adapt in a strong way to market demands, by allowing the exchange of core modules, which carries out the operations along a path established both by an visual interface or by augmented reality, the possibility for companies to structure a production more adaptable and at the same time offering innovative services.
Il mondo del Design e della manifatturiera sta affrontando una nuova era, la quarta rivoluzione Industriale. Dopo le trasformazioni che l’IT ha portato negli ultimi 30 anni la disponibilità di sensori e di moduli di connessione a basso costo oltre alla possibilità di trasferire informazioni ad alta velocità stanno trasformando il cosa ed il come dell’Industria. Queste possibilità tecnologiche stanno aprendo la strada ad un cambiamento organizzativo, passando da una produzione verticale ad un network orizzontale acentrico dove non solo sono condivise informazioni e dati ma sopratutto conoscenze ed abilità. Le nuove tecnologie e il nuovo approccio alla realizzazione modificano la catena del valore percepita dal consumatore, cambiando profondamente i business model e apportando trasformazioni in profondità nella società. Proprio per i cambiamenti che la nostra realtà sta affrontando in questo periodo i consumatori richiedono progetti più completi, integrati con strumenti digitali e capaci di interconnettersi per offrire un esperienza più completa e omnicomprensiva. La nascita del Design dell’Internet delle Cose, o Internet of Things (IoT) è dovuta a visioni laterali che attribuiscono nuovi usi e significati ad oggetti di uso comune, offrendo loro nuove possibilità e strade ancora tutte da esplorare. Dopo la realizzazione dei primi oggetti Consumer, come wearable, Smart Tracker o sistemi domotici che includono elettrodomestici (sia bianche che neri), la nuova frontiera della progettazione è l’Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) ossia l’Internet delle Cose Industriali. Per rientrare in questa definizione, le Smart Machines devono potere condividere le proprie informazioni con altre macchine (Machine 2 Machine) o con l’utilizzatore, per poter essere sia autonome nella gestione dei cicli produttivi che controllabili a distanza. Diversamente dal’IoT, i macchinari di nuova generazione devono essere necessariamente adattabili, per rispondere velocemente alle richieste di un’Industria sempre in mutamento, scalabili per adattarsi ai diversi volumi di produzione e sempre offrendo gli standard qualitativi che la fabbricazione a controllo digitale ha offerto in questi anni. Xone risponde a queste esigenze delle Smart Factory: è un’assistente modulare per le lavorazioni generiche, capace di adattarsi velocemente a diversi metodi produttivi offrendo la possibilità di gestire volumi diversi tramite la Swarm Robotics, ossia la robotica di sciame. Xone vuole introdurre nelle fabbriche uno strumento adatto ai tempi odierni. Non è una sostituzione dei metodi di produzione di massa ma piuttosto uno strumento capace di affiancare l’operatore per svolgere operazioni generiche in velocità ed in sicurezza, sia a terra che in quota. Vuole rispondere ad un’esigenza di adattamento rapido alle richieste del mercato, permettendo tramite il cambio dei moduli centrali, che effettuano le operazioni lungo un tracciato programmabile via interfaccia visuale o tramite realtà aumentata, la possibilità alle aziende di strutturare una produzione più adattabile e allo stesso tempo offrire servizi innovativi.
Xone. Concept di assistente modulare nelle lavorazioni generiche per le smart factory
FORTI, GIORGIO
2014/2015
Abstract
The world of Design and the manufacturing industry is facing a new era, the fourth industrial revolution. After the changes that IT brought in the last 30 years the availability of sensors and low-cost connection modules as well as the ability to transfer information at high speed are transforming the products and the way they are made. These technological possibilities are opening new ways for an organizational change, moving from a vertical to a horizontal and acentric network production where not only information and data are shared but above all knowledge and skills. The new technologies and the new realization approach modify the value chain perceived by the consumer, profoundly changing the business model and applying deep transformations into the society. Quite because of the changes that our reality is now facing consumers demand more comprehensive projects, integrated with digital tools and able to interconnect to offer a more complete and inclusive experience. The birth of the Design of the Internet of Things, (IoT) is due to distruptive views that give us new purposes and meanings to everyday objects, offering them new possibilities and roads still to be followed. After the creation of the first consumer-objects, as Wearable, Smart Tracker or Home automation systems that include household appliances (both white and blacks), the new frontier of Industrial design is the the Internet of Things Industry (IIOT). To meet this definition, Smart Machines must be able to share their informations with other machines (Machine 2 Machine Communication) or with the users, in order to be both autonomous in the management of production cycles as remotely controllable. Unlike from IoT, the new generation machines have to be adaptable, to respond quickly to requests for an Industry always changing, to be scalable to accommodate different production volumes always offering quality standards that digital manufacturing control offered in last few years. Xone meets these needs of the Smart Factory: it is an modular assistant for general machining, able to adapt quickly to the different production methods offering the possibility to handle different volumes via Swarm Robotics, namely self-organized small-robots able to follow tasks and not only instruction Xone wants to introduce in factories an instrument suited to modern times. It is not a replacement for the mass production methods but rather a tool that can assist the operators to perform generic operations quickly and safety, both on land and at high heights. It wants to respond the need to adapt in a strong way to market demands, by allowing the exchange of core modules, which carries out the operations along a path established both by an visual interface or by augmented reality, the possibility for companies to structure a production more adaptable and at the same time offering innovative services.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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