Manufacture-in-motion by new concept of dextrous manufacturing hand

The new design of manufacturing hand has layout of fingers different from conventional robotic hands reported in literature. After an overview of different robot assisted manufacturing cell layouts, this paper compares them based on cycle time of production. The computations are conducted on a case study involving automation of wire harnessing process. It is found that the new concept of dextrous manufacturing hand yields minimum cycle time through minimum critical path of motion, and manufacture-in-motion by partial overlap of processing operations over material transfer motions