Investigations on Adoption of industry 4 0 machine monitoring and controlling architecture for foundry automation

Abstract

The modern days casting process manufacturing units is getting more complicated due to excessive heat and dust environment. Manual operation or intervention in the casting making process can lead to health hazards for the operators. Hence, smart online monitoring and controlling mechanism can help out the foundries to manufacture casting-based components. The focus of this research is with machine monitoring and controlling. That, its outcome will be based on the new feature which is reliable machine monitoring at low cost. In the automobile industry, nearly 80% of metal casting and components are manufactured in the foundry industry. The automotive spare parts of critical and hollow metal utilizes components shapes are produced in the foundry area. newlineThe automotive industry mostly relies on spare parts for specific camshafts, rocker arms, cylinders and piston manufactured at high temperatures using foundry technology. Foundry enterprises are always mind-boggling and requires excellent and reliable mechanization in designing and assembling their requested workplace. In this scenario, most of the foundry businesses run with human dependence, well-being risks are high and therefore making the whole venture costly. To overcome these obstacles, the foundry equips itself towards the robotization of their assembly interactions. newlineThere are four major processes involved in foundry. In that, two major processes namely core shooter and heat treatment process are considered in this research. The core shooter machine plays a vital process in making of casting in the foundry environment. The produced casting undergoes a heat treatment process in the furnace at 600 °C to 900 °C, in order to check for the inspiration and consequently, to correct it. newline newline